Download or read book Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction written by COCOS 200 and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-11-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Global Constraints Optimization and Costraint Satisfaction, COCOS 2002, held in Valbonne-Sophia Antipolis, France in October 2002. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers address current issues in global optimization, mathematical programming, and constraint programming; they are grouped in topical sections on optimization, constraint satisfaction, and benchmarking.

Download or read book Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction written by Christophe Jermann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the throughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction, COCOS 2003, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in Nowember 2003. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are devoted to theoretical, algorithmic, and application-oriented issues in global constrained optimization and constraint satisfaction; they are organized in topical sections on constraint satisfaction problems, global optimization, and applications.

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Download or read book Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction written by Christophe Jermann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theformulationofmanypracticalproblemsnaturallyinvolvesconstraintsonthe variables entering the mathematical model of a real-life situation to be analyzed. It is of great interest to ?nd the possible scenarios satisfying all constraints, and, iftherearemanyofthem,eitherto?ndthebestsolution,ortoobtainacompact, explicit representation of the whole feasible set. The 2nd Workshop on Global Constrained Optimization and Constraint S- isfaction, COCOS 2003, which took place during November 18–21, 2003 in L- sanne, Switzerland, was dedicated to theoretical, algorithmic, and application oriented advances in answering these questions. Here global optimization refers to ?nding the absolutely best feasible point, while constraint satisfaction refers to?ndingallpossiblefeasiblepoints.AsinCOCOS2002,the?rstsuchworkshop (see the proceeedings [1]), the emphasis was on complete solving techniques for problems involving continuous variables that provide all solutions with full rigor, and on applications which, however, were allowed to have relaxed standards of rigor. The participants used the opportunity to meet experts from global optimi- tion, mathematical programming, constraint programming, and applications, and to present and discuss ongoing work and new directions in the ?eld. Four invited lectures and 20 contributed talks were presented at the workshop. The invited lectures were given by John Hooker (Logic-Based Methods for Global Optimization), Jean-Pierre Merlet (Usual and Unusual Applications of Interval Analysis), Hermann Schichl (The COCONUT Optimization Environment), and Jorge Mor ́ e (Global Optimization Computational Servers). This volume contains the text of Hooker’s invited lecture and of 12 c- tributed talks. Copies of the slides for most presentations can be found at [2]. Constraintsatisfactionproblems.Threepapersfocusonalgorithmicaspects of constraint satisfaction problems.

Download or read book State of the Art in Global Optimization written by Christodoulos A. Floudas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization problems abound in most fields of science, engineering, and tech nology. In many of these problems it is necessary to compute the global optimum (or a good approximation) of a multivariable function. The variables that define the function to be optimized can be continuous and/or discrete and, in addition, many times satisfy certain constraints. Global optimization problems belong to the complexity class of NP-hard prob lems. Such problems are very difficult to solve. Traditional descent optimization algorithms based on local information are not adequate for solving these problems. In most cases of practical interest the number of local optima increases, on the aver age, exponentially with the size of the problem (number of variables). Furthermore, most of the traditional approaches fail to escape from a local optimum in order to continue the search for the global solution. Global optimization has received a lot of attention in the past ten years, due to the success of new algorithms for solving large classes of problems from diverse areas such as engineering design and control, computational chemistry and biology, structural optimization, computer science, operations research, and economics. This book contains refereed invited papers presented at the conference on "State of the Art in Global Optimization: Computational Methods and Applications" held at Princeton University, April 28-30, 1995. The conference presented current re search on global optimization and related applications in science and engineering. The papers included in this book cover a wide spectrum of approaches for solving global optimization problems and applications.

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Download or read book Logic Based Methods for Optimization written by John Hooker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering look at the fundamental role of logic in optimizationand constraint satisfaction While recent efforts to combine optimization and constraintsatisfaction have received considerable attention, little has beensaid about using logic in optimization as the key to unifying thetwo fields. Logic-Based Methods for Optimization develops for thefirst time a comprehensive conceptual framework for integratingoptimization and constraint satisfaction, then goes a step furtherand shows how extending logical inference to optimization allowsfor more powerful as well as flexible modeling and solutiontechniques. Designed to be easily accessible to industryprofessionals and academics in both operations research andartificial intelligence, the book provides a wealth of examples aswell as elegant techniques and modeling frameworks ready forimplementation. Timely, original, and thought-provoking,Logic-Based Methods for Optimization: * Demonstrates the advantages of combining the techniques inproblem solving * Offers tutorials in constraint satisfaction/constraintprogramming and logical inference * Clearly explains such concepts as relaxation, cutting planes,nonserial dynamic programming, and Bender's decomposition * Reviews the necessary technologies for software developersseeking to combine the two techniques * Features extensive references to important computationalstudies * And much more

Download or read book Recent Advances in Global Optimization written by Christodoulos A. Floudas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Numerica written by Pascal Van Hentenryck and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many science and engineering applications require the user to find solutions to systems of nonlinear constraints or to optimize a nonlinear function subject to nonlinear constraints. The field of global optimization is the study of methods to find all solutions to systems of nonlinear constraints and all global optima to optimization problems. Numerica is modeling language for global optimization that makes it possible to state nonlinear problems in a form close to the statements traditionally found in textbooks and scientific papers. The constraint-solving algorithm of Numerica is based on a combination of traditional numerical methods such as interval and local methods, and constraint satisfaction techniques. This comprehensive presentation of Numerica describes its design, functions, and implementation. It also discusses how to use Numerica effectively to solve practical problems and reports a number of experimental results. A commercial implementation of Numerica is available from ILOG under the name ILOG Numerica.

Download or read book Complexity Classifications of Boolean Constraint Satisfaction Problems written by Nadia Creignou and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a novel form of a compendium that classifies an infinite number of problems by using a rule-based approach.

Download or read book Integrated Methods for Optimization written by John N. Hooker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-13 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Integrated Methods for Optimization was published in January 2007. Because the book covers a rapidly developing field, the time is right for a second edition. The book provides a unified treatment of optimization methods. It brings ideas from mathematical programming (MP), constraint programming (CP), and global optimization (GO)into a single volume. There is no reason these must be learned as separate fields, as they normally are, and there are three reasons they should be studied together. (1) There is much in common among them intellectually, and to a large degree they can be understood as special cases of a single underlying solution technology. (2) A growing literature reports how they can be profitably integrated to formulate and solve a wide range of problems. (3) Several software packages now incorporate techniques from two or more of these fields. The book provides a unique resource for graduate students and practitioners who want a well-rounded background in optimization methods within a single course of study. Engineering students are a particularly large potential audience, because engineering optimization problems often benefit from a combined approach—particularly where design, scheduling, or logistics are involved. The text is also of value to those studying operations research, because their educational programs rarely cover CP, and to those studying computer science and artificial intelligence (AI), because their curric ula typically omit MP and GO. The text is also useful for practitioners in any of these areas who want to learn about another, because it provides a more concise and accessible treatment than other texts. The book can cover so wide a range of material because it focuses on ideas that arerelevant to the methods used in general-purpose optimization and constraint solvers. The book focuses on ideas behind the methods that have proved useful in general-purpose optimization and constraint solvers, as well as integrated solvers of the present and foreseeable future. The second edition updates results in this area and includes several major new topics: Background material in linear, nonlinear, and dynamic programming. Network flow theory, due to its importance in filtering algorithms. A chapter on generalized duality theory that more explicitly develops a unifying primal-dual algorithmic structure for optimization methods. An extensive survey of search methods from both MP and AI, using the primal-dual framework as an organizing principle. Coverage of several additional global constraints used in CP solvers. The book continues to focus on exact as opposed to heuristic methods. It is possible to bring heuristic methods into the unifying scheme described in the book, and the new edition will retain the brief discussion of how this might be done.

Download or read book Stochastic Global Optimization written by Gade Pandu Rangaiah and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 1. Introduction / Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- ch. 2. Formulation and illustration of Luus-Jaakola optimization procedure / Rein Luus -- ch. 3. Adaptive random search and simulated annealing optimizers : algorithms and application issues / Jacek M. Jezowski, Grzegorz Poplewski and Roman Bochenek -- ch. 4. Genetic algorithms in process engineering : developments and implementation issues / Abdunnaser Younes, Ali Elkamel and Shawki Areibi -- ch. 5. Tabu search for global optimization of problems having continuous variables / Sim Mong Kai, Gade Pandu Rangaiah and Mekapati Srinivas -- ch. 6. Differential evolution : method, developments and chemical engineering applications / Chen Shaoqiang, Gade Pandu Rangaiah and Mekapati Srinivas -- ch. 7. Ant colony optimization : details of algorithms suitable for process engineering / V.K. Jayaraman [und weitere] -- ch. 8. Particle swarm optimization for solving NLP and MINLP in chemical engineering / Bassem Jarboui [und weitere] -- ch. 9. An introduction to the harmony search algorithm / Gordon Ingram and Tonghua Zhang -- ch. 10. Meta-heuristics : evaluation and reporting techniques / Abdunnaser Younes, Ali Elkamel and Shawki Areibi -- ch. 11. A hybrid approach for constraint handling in MINLP optimization using stochastic algorithms / G.A. Durand [und weitere] -- ch. 12. Application of Luus-Jaakola optimization procedure to model reduction, parameter estimation and optimal control / Rein Luus -- ch. 13. Phase stability and equilibrium calculations in reactive systems using differential evolution and tabu search / Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet [und weitere] -- ch. 14. Differential evolution with tabu list for global optimization : evaluation of two versions on benchmark and phase stability problems / Mekapati Srinivas and Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- ch. 15. Application of adaptive random search optimization for solving industrial water allocation problem / Grzegorz Poplewski and Jacek M. Jezowski -- ch. 16. Genetic algorithms formulation for retrofitting heat exchanger network / Roman Bochenek and Jacek M. Jezowski -- ch. 17. Ant colony optimization for classification and feature selection / V.K. Jayaraman [und weitere] -- ch. 18. Constraint programming and genetic algorithm / Prakash R. Kotecha, Mani Bhushan and Ravindra D. Gudi -- ch. 19. Schemes and implementations of parallel stochastic optimization algorithms application of tabu search to chemical engineering problems / B. Lin and D.C. Miller

Download or read book Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems written by Carla Gomes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a compilation of the research program of the 10th International Conference on the Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) Techniques in Constraint Programming, CPAIOR 2013, held at Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, in May 2013. This volume contains 20 full papers and 11 short papers that were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers focus on new techniques or applications in the intersection of constraint programming (CP), artificial intelligence (AI) and operations research (OR).

Download or read book Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming written by Pascal Van Hentenryck and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles classic problems from operations research and circuit design using a logic programming language embedding consistency techniques, a paradigm emerging from artificial intelligence research. Van Hentenryck proposes a new approach to solving discrete combinatorial problems using these techniques.Logic programming serves as a convenient language for stating combinatorial problems, but its "generate and test" paradigm leads to inefficient programs. Van Hentenryck's approach preserves one of the most useful features of logic programming - the duality of its semantics - yet allows a short development time for the programs while preserving most of the efficiency of special purpose programs written in a procedural language.Embedding consistency techniques in logic programming allows for ease and flexibility of programming and short development time because constraint propagation and tree-search programming are abstracted away from the user. It also enables logic programs to be executed efficiently as consistency techniques permit an active use of constraints to remove combinations of values that cannot appear in a solution Van Hentenryck presents a comprehensive overview of this new approach from its theoretical foundations to its design and implementation, including applications to real life combinatorial problems.The ideas introduced in "Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming "have been used successfully to solve more than a dozen practical problems in operations research and circuit design, including disjunctive scheduling, warehouse location, cutting stock car sequencing, and microcode labeling problems.Pascal Van Hentenryck is a member of the research staff at the European Computer Industry Research Centre. "Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming" is based on research for the Centre's CHIP project. As an outgrowth of this project, a new language (CHIP) that will include consistency techniques has been developed for commercial use. The book is included in the Logic Programming series edited by Ehud Shapiro.