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9780471322429

Optimization: Foundations and Applications

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471322429

  • ISBN10:

    0471322423

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

This paperback edition of the popular 1999 title presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Award-winning educator Ronald E. Miller provides detailed coverage of both classical, calculus-based approaches and newer, computer-based iterative methods.

Author Biography

Ronald E. Miller, PhD, is professor emeritus of regional science at the University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

FOUNDATIONS: LINEAR METHODS.
Matrix Algebra.
Systems of Linear Equations.
FOUNDATIONS: NONLINEAR METHODS.
Unconstrained Maximization and Minimization.
Constrained Maximization and Minimization.
APPLICATIONS: ITERATIVE METHODS FOR NONLINEAR PROBLEMS.
Solving Nonlinear Equations.
Solving Unconstrained Maximization and Minimization Problems.
APPLICATIONS: CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION IN LINEAR MODELS.
Linear Programming: Fundamentals.
Linear Programming: Extensions.
Linear Programming: Interior Point Methods.
APPLICATIONS: CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION IN NONLINEAR MODELS.
Nonlinear Programming: Fundamentals.
Nonlinear Programming: Duality and Computational Methods.
Problems.
References.

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