Progress In Optimization

Author : Xiao-qi Yang,Alistair I. Mees,Mike Fisher,Les Jennings
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461303015

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Progress in Optimization by Xiao-qi Yang,Alistair I. Mees,Mike Fisher,Les Jennings Pdf

'Optimization Day' (OD) has been a series of annual mini-conferences in Aus tralia since 1994. The purpose of this series of events is to gather researchers in optimization and its related areas from Australia and their collaborators, in order to exchange new developments of optimization theories, methods and their applications. The first four OD mini-conferences were held in The Uni versity of Ballarat (1994), The University of New South Wales (1995), The University of Melbourne (1996) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1997), respectively. They were all on the eastern coast of Australia. The fifth mini-conference Optimization Days was held at the Centre for Ap plied Dynamics and Optimization (CADO), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia, Perth, from 29 to 30 June 1998. This is the first time the OD mini-conference has been held at the west ern coast of Australia. This fifth OD preceded the International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA) held at Curtin Uni versity of Technology. Many participants attended both events. There were 28 participants in this year's mini-conference and 22 presentations in the mini conference. The presentations in this volume are refereed contributions based on papers presented at the fifth Optimization Days mini-conference. The volume is di vided into the following parts: Global Optimization, Nonsmooth Optimization, Optimization Methods and Applications.

Author : Xiaoqi Yang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792362861

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Progress in Optimization by Xiaoqi Yang Pdf

This is the second in a series of contributed, refereed volumes devoted to research in optimization by Australian researchers and their collaborators. These volumes are intended to have wide scope and include survey papers by established researchers providing up-to-date information on research directions. This volume includes survey and research papers on theories and methods of nonlinear programming, nonconvex and discrete optimization, stochastic linear programming, generalized convexity, complementarity and vector variational inequality problems, dynamic systems and optimal control and applications to traffic assignment models, train control, manufacturing systems and substrate diffusion of cutaneous tissue. Audience: Practitioners, postgraduate students and researchers in optimization.

Author : Karl F. Doerner,Michel Gendreau,Peter Greistorfer,Walter Gutjahr,Richard F. Hartl,Marc Reimann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387719214

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Metaheuristics by Karl F. Doerner,Michel Gendreau,Peter Greistorfer,Walter Gutjahr,Richard F. Hartl,Marc Reimann Pdf

This book’s aim is to provide several different kinds of information: a delineation of general metaheuristics methods, a number of state-of-the-art articles from a variety of well-known classical application areas as well as an outlook to modern computational methods in promising new areas. Therefore, this book may equally serve as a textbook in graduate courses for students, as a reference book for people interested in engineering or social sciences, and as a collection of new and promising avenues for researchers working in this field.

Author : Dorin Bucur,Giuseppe Buttazzo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780817644031

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Variational Methods in Shape Optimization Problems by Dorin Bucur,Giuseppe Buttazzo Pdf

Shape optimization problems are treated from the classical and modern perspectives Targets a broad audience of graduate students in pure and applied mathematics, as well as engineers requiring a solid mathematical basis for the solution of practical problems Requires only a standard knowledge in the calculus of variations, differential equations, and functional analysis Driven by several good examples and illustrations Poses some open questions.

Author : Christodoulos A. Floudas,Panos M. Pardalos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781400862528

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Recent Advances in Global Optimization by Christodoulos A. Floudas,Panos M. Pardalos Pdf

This book will present the papers delivered at the first U.S. conference devoted exclusively to global optimization and will thus provide valuable insights into the significant research on the topic that has been emerging during recent years. Held at Princeton University in May 1991, the conference brought together an interdisciplinary group of the most active developers of algorithms for global optimization in order to focus the attention of the mathematical programming community on the unsolved problems and diverse applications of this field. The main subjects addressed at the conference were advances in deterministic and stochastic methods for global optimization, parallel algorithms for global optimization problems, and applications of global optimization. Although global optimization is primarily a mathematical problem, it is relevant to several other disciplines, including computer science, applied mathematics, physical chemistry, molecular biology, statistics, physics, engineering, operations research, communication theory, and economics. Global optimization problems originate from a wide variety of mathematical models of real-world systems. Some of its applications are allocation and location problems and VLSI and data-base design problems. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William R. Pulleyblank
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781483264530

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Progress in Combinatorial Optimization by William R. Pulleyblank Pdf

Progress in Combinatorial Optimization provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of combinatorial optimization. This book discusses how to determine whether or not a particular structure exists. Organized into 21 chapters, this book begins with an overview of a polar characterization of facets of polyhedra obtained by lifting facets of lower dimensional polyhedra. This text then discusses how to obtain bounds on the value of the objective in a graph partitioning problem in terms of spectral information about the graph. Other chapters consider the notion of a triangulation of an oriented matroid and show that oriented matroid triangulation yield triangulations of the underlying polytopes. This book discusses as well the selected results and problems on perfect ad imperfect graphs. The final chapter deals with the weighted parity problem for gammoids, which can be reduced to the weighted graphic matching problem. This book is a valuable resource for mathematicians and research workers.

Author : Nicolas Hadjisavvas,Panos M. Pardalos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461302797

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Advances in Convex Analysis and Global Optimization by Nicolas Hadjisavvas,Panos M. Pardalos Pdf

There has been much recent progress in global optimization algo rithms for nonconvex continuous and discrete problems from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Convex analysis plays a fun damental role in the analysis and development of global optimization algorithms. This is due essentially to the fact that virtually all noncon vex optimization problems can be described using differences of convex functions and differences of convex sets. A conference on Convex Analysis and Global Optimization was held during June 5 -9, 2000 at Pythagorion, Samos, Greece. The conference was honoring the memory of C. Caratheodory (1873-1950) and was en dorsed by the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) and by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group in Optimization. The conference was sponsored by the European Union (through the EPEAEK program), the Department of Mathematics of the Aegean University and the Center for Applied Optimization of the University of Florida, by the General Secretariat of Research and Tech nology of Greece, by the Ministry of Education of Greece, and several local Greek government agencies and companies. This volume contains a selective collection of refereed papers based on invited and contribut ing talks presented at this conference. The two themes of convexity and global optimization pervade this book. The conference provided a forum for researchers working on different aspects of convexity and global opti mization to present their recent discoveries, and to interact with people working on complementary aspects of mathematical programming.

Author : Ertugrul Aksoy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781838801076

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Advances in Array Optimization by Ertugrul Aksoy Pdf

The need to develop technology and communication necessitates the design of flexible and high-capacity radiating systems in today's communication infrastructure. In this context, antenna arrays are the ideal solution and have been one of the priority research subjects of the science community dealing with electromagnetics from past to present. Optimization of an array may be performed in various ways such as the optimization of excitation, reflector structure, feed network, etc. depending on the array structure. This book is a collection of seven research studies focused on the optimization of array structures in classical phased array or time modulation, including radiator, reflector, feed network, and radiating element optimizations.

Author : Gino J. Lim,Eva K. Lee
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780849305696

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Optimization in Medicine and Biology by Gino J. Lim,Eva K. Lee Pdf

Thanks to recent advancements, optimization is now recognized as a crucial component in research and decision-making across a number of fields. Through optimization, scientists have made tremendous advances in cancer treatment planning, disease control, and drug development, as well as in sequencing DNA, and identifying protein structures. Op

Author : Stefka Fidanova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030588847

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Recent Advances in Computational Optimization by Stefka Fidanova Pdf

This book is a comprehensive collection of extended contributions from the Workshops on Computational Optimization 2019. Our everyday life is unthinkable without optimization. We try to minimize our effort and to maximize the achieved profit. Many real-world and industrial problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks. This book presents recent advances in computational optimization. The book includes important real problems like modeling of physical processes, wildfire and flood risk modeling, workforce planning, parameter settings for controlling different processes, optimal electrical vehicle modeling, bioreactor modeling and design of VLSI. It shows how to develop algorithms for them based on new intelligent methods like evolutionary computations, ant colony optimization, constrain programming and others. This research demonstrates how some real-world problems arising in engineering, economics and other domains can be formulated as optimization problems.

Author : Tamas Terlaky,Miguel F. Anjos,Shabbir Ahmed
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781611974676

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Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications by Tamas Terlaky,Miguel F. Anjos,Shabbir Ahmed Pdf

Optimization is of critical importance in engineering. Engineers constantly strive for the best possible solutions, the most economical use of limited resources, and the greatest efficiency. As system complexity increases, these goals mandate the use of state-of-the-art optimization techniques. In recent years, the theory and methodology of optimization have seen revolutionary improvements. Moreover, the exponential growth in computational power, along with the availability of multicore computing with virtually unlimited memory and storage capacity, has fundamentally changed what engineers can do to optimize their designs. This is a two-way process: engineers benefit from developments in optimization methodology, and challenging new classes of optimization problems arise from novel engineering applications. Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications reviews 10 major areas of optimization and related engineering applications, providing a broad summary of state-of-the-art optimization techniques most important to engineering practice. Each part provides a clear overview of a specific area and discusses a range of real-world problems. The book provides a solid foundation for engineers and mathematical optimizers alike who want to understand the importance of optimization methods to engineering and the capabilities of these methods.

Author : David Gao,Ning Ruan,Wenxun Xing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319083773

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Advances in Global Optimization by David Gao,Ning Ruan,Wenxun Xing Pdf

This proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimization—a multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms. The volume contains selected papers from the third biannual World Congress on Global Optimization in Engineering & Science (WCGO), held in the Yellow Mountains, Anhui, China on July 8-12, 2013. The papers fall into eight topical sections: mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization; duality theory; topology optimization; variational inequalities and complementarity problems; numerical optimization; stochastic models and simulation and complex simulation and supply chain analysis.

Author : E. A. Nurminski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Algorithms
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002076168

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Progress in Nondifferentiable Optimization by E. A. Nurminski Pdf

Author : Dean Vucinic,Fabiana Rodrigues Leta,Sheeja Janardhanan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811398063

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Advances in Visualization and Optimization Techniques for Multidisciplinary Research by Dean Vucinic,Fabiana Rodrigues Leta,Sheeja Janardhanan Pdf

This volume presents several multidisciplinary approaches to the visual representation of data acquired from experiments. As an expansion of these approaches, it is also possible to include data examination generated by mathematical-physical modeling. Imaging Systems encompass any subject related to digital images, from fundamental requirements for a correct image acquisition to computational algorithms that make it possible to obtain relevant information for image analysis. In this context, the book presents selected contributions of a special session at the Conference on Advanced Computational Engineering and Experimenting (ACE-X) 2016.

Author : José Herskovits
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0792325109

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Advances in Structural Optimization by José Herskovits Pdf

This text presents the techniques for a wide set of applications, ranging from the problems of size and shape optimization (historically the first to be studied) to topology and material optimization. Structural models are considered that use both discrete and finite elements. Structural materials can be classical or new. Emerging methods are also addressed, such as automatic differentiation, intelligent structures optimization, integration of structural optimization in concurrent engineering environments, and multidisciplinary optimization.