Linear and Nonlinear Programming

by Nash, Stephen G.

• ISBN13: 9780070460652
• ISBN10: 0070460655
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780071145374
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: MCG (Manual)
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Summary

This text presents linear and nonlinear programming in an integrated setting and serves as a complete and unified introduction to applications, theory, and algorithms.

Author Biography

Industrial engineering students.

Table of Contents

I Basics

1 Optimization Models

2 Fundamentals of Optimization

3 Representation of Linear Constraints

II Linear Programming

4 Geometry of Linear Programming

5 The Simplex Method

III Introduction

6 Duality and Sensitivity

7 Enhancements of the Simplex Method

8 Network Problems

9 Computational Complexity of Computer Programming

IV Unconstained Nonlinear Optimization

10 Basics of Unconstrained Optimization

11 Methods for Unconstrained Optimization

12 Low-Storage Methods

13 Nonlinear Least-Squares

V Nonlinear Programming

14 Optimality Conditions for Constrained Problems

15 Feasible-Point Methods

16 Penalty and Barrier Methods

17 Interior Point Methods

Appendixes