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Book Mathematical Programming Via Augmented Lagrangians

Download or read book Mathematical Programming Via Augmented Lagrangians written by Donald A. Pierre and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Augmented Lagrangian and Operator Splitting Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics

Download or read book Augmented Lagrangian and Operator Splitting Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics written by Roland Glowinski and published by SIAM. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the numerical simulation of the behavior of continuous media by augmented Lagrangian and operator-splitting methods.

Book Augmented Lagrangian Methods

Download or read book Augmented Lagrangian Methods written by M. Fortin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to present the principles of the Augmented Lagrangian Method, together with numerous applications of this method to the numerical solution of boundary-value problems for partial differential equations or inequalities arising in Mathematical Physics, in the Mechanics of Continuous Media and in the Engineering Sciences.

Book Approaches to the Theory of Optimization

Download or read book Approaches to the Theory of Optimization written by J. P. Ponstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise account which finds the optimal solution to mathematical problems arising in economics, engineering, the social and mathematical sciences.

Book Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning Via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Download or read book Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning Via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers written by Stephen Boyd and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the theory and history of the alternating direction method of multipliers, and discusses its applications to a wide variety of statistical and machine learning problems of recent interest, including the lasso, sparse logistic regression, basis pursuit, covariance selection, support vector machines, and many others.

Book Practical Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Constrained Optimization

Download or read book Practical Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Constrained Optimization written by Ernesto G. Birgin and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Augmented Lagrangian techniques for solving practical constrained optimization problems. The authors rigorously delineate mathematical convergence theory based on sequential optimality conditions and novel constraint qualifications. They also orient the book to practitioners by giving priority to results that provide insight on the practical behavior of algorithms and by providing geometrical and algorithmic interpretations of every mathematical result, and they fully describe a freely available computational package for constrained optimization and illustrate its usefulness with applications.

Book Theory of Convex Programming

Download or read book Theory of Convex Programming written by E. G. Golstein and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decomposition Techniques in Mathematical Programming

Download or read book Decomposition Techniques in Mathematical Programming written by Antonio J. Conejo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization plainly dominates the design, planning, operation, and c- trol of engineering systems. This is a book on optimization that considers particular cases of optimization problems, those with a decomposable str- ture that can be advantageously exploited. Those decomposable optimization problems are ubiquitous in engineering and science applications. The book considers problems with both complicating constraints and complicating va- ables, and analyzes linear and nonlinear problems, with and without in- ger variables. The decomposition techniques analyzed include Dantzig-Wolfe, Benders, Lagrangian relaxation, Augmented Lagrangian decomposition, and others. Heuristic techniques are also considered. Additionally, a comprehensive sensitivity analysis for characterizing the solution of optimization problems is carried out. This material is particularly novel and of high practical interest. This book is built based on many clarifying, illustrative, and compu- tional examples, which facilitate the learning procedure. For the sake of cl- ity, theoretical concepts and computational algorithms are assembled based on these examples. The results are simplicity, clarity, and easy-learning. We feel that this book is needed by the engineering community that has to tackle complex optimization problems, particularly by practitioners and researchersinEngineering,OperationsResearch,andAppliedEconomics.The descriptions of most decomposition techniques are available only in complex and specialized mathematical journals, di?cult to understand by engineers. A book describing a wide range of decomposition techniques, emphasizing problem-solving, and appropriately blending theory and application, was not previously available.

Book Mathematical Programming The State of the Art

Download or read book Mathematical Programming The State of the Art written by A. Bachem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late forties, Mathematical Programming became a scientific discipline in its own right. Since then it has experienced a tremendous growth. Beginning with economic and military applications, it is now among the most important fields of applied mathematics with extensive use in engineering, natural sciences, economics, and biological sciences. The lively activity in this area is demonstrated by the fact that as early as 1949 the first "Symposium on Mathe matical Programming" took place in Chicago. Since then mathematical programmers from all over the world have gath ered at the intfrnational symposia of the Mathematical Programming Society roughly every three years to present their recent research, to exchange ideas with their colleagues and to learn about the latest developments in their own and related fields. In 1982, the XI. International Symposium on Mathematical Programming was held at the University of Bonn, W. Germany, from August 23 to 27. It was organized by the Institut fUr Okonometrie und Operations Re search of the University of Bonn in collaboration with the Sonderforschungs bereich 21 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. This volume constitutes part of the outgrowth of this symposium and docu ments its scientific activities. Part I of the book contains information about the symposium, welcoming addresses, lists of committees and sponsors and a brief review about the Ful kerson Prize and the Dantzig Prize which were awarded during the opening ceremony.

Book Mathematical Programming Study

Download or read book Mathematical Programming Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Topics in Nonconvex Optimization

Download or read book Topics in Nonconvex Optimization written by Shashi K. Mishra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonconvex Optimization is a multi-disciplinary research field that deals with the characterization and computation of local/global minima/maxima of nonlinear, nonconvex, nonsmooth, discrete and continuous functions. Nonconvex optimization problems are frequently encountered in modeling real world systems for a very broad range of applications including engineering, mathematical economics, management science, financial engineering, and social science. This contributed volume consists of selected contributions from the Advanced Training Programme on Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications held at Banaras Hindu University in March 2009. It aims to bring together new concepts, theoretical developments, and applications from these researchers. Both theoretical and applied articles are contained in this volume which adds to the state of the art research in this field. Topics in Nonconvex Optimization is suitable for advanced graduate students and researchers in this area.

Book Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multiplier Methods

Download or read book Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multiplier Methods written by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics: Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multiplier Methods focuses on the advancements in the applications of the Lagrange multiplier methods for constrained minimization. The publication first offers information on the method of multipliers for equality constrained problems and the method of multipliers for inequality constrained and nondifferentiable optimization problems. Discussions focus on approximation procedures for nondifferentiable and ill-conditioned optimization problems; asymptotically exact minimization in the methods of multipliers; duality framework for the method of multipliers; and the quadratic penalty function method. The text then examines exact penalty methods, including nondifferentiable exact penalty functions; linearization algorithms based on nondifferentiable exact penalty functions; differentiable exact penalty functions; and local and global convergence of Lagrangian methods. The book ponders on the nonquadratic penalty functions of convex programming. Topics include large scale separable integer programming problems and the exponential method of multipliers; classes of penalty functions and corresponding methods of multipliers; and convergence analysis of multiplier methods. The text is a valuable reference for mathematicians and researchers interested in the Lagrange multiplier methods.

Book Mathematical Programming

Download or read book Mathematical Programming written by Michel Minoux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1986 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive work covers the whole field of mathematical programming, including linear programming, unconstrained and constrained nonlinear programming, nondifferentiable (or nonsmooth) optimization, integer programming, large scale systems optimization, dynamic programming, and optimization in infinite dimensions. Special emphasis is placed on unifying concepts such as point-to-set maps, saddle points and perturbations functions, duality theory and its extensions.

Book Lagrange Multiplier Approach to Variational Problems and Applications

Download or read book Lagrange Multiplier Approach to Variational Problems and Applications written by Kazufumi Ito and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses Lagrange multiplier theory and demonstrates its impact on the development of numerical algorithms for variational problems in function spaces.

Book Linear and Multiobjective Programming with Fuzzy Stochastic Extensions

Download or read book Linear and Multiobjective Programming with Fuzzy Stochastic Extensions written by Masatoshi Sakawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although several books or monographs on multiobjective optimization under uncertainty have been published, there seems to be no book which starts with an introductory chapter of linear programming and is designed to incorporate both fuzziness and randomness into multiobjective programming in a unified way. In this book, five major topics, linear programming, multiobjective programming, fuzzy programming, stochastic programming, and fuzzy stochastic programming, are presented in a comprehensive manner. Especially, the last four topics together comprise the main characteristics of this book, and special stress is placed on interactive decision making aspects of multiobjective programming for human-centered systems in most realistic situations under fuzziness and/or randomness. Organization of each chapter is briefly summarized as follows: Chapter 2 is a concise and condensed description of the theory of linear programming and its algorithms. Chapter 3 discusses fundamental notions and methods of multiobjective linear programming and concludes with interactive multiobjective linear programming. In Chapter 4, starting with clear explanations of fuzzy linear programming and fuzzy multiobjective linear programming, interactive fuzzy multiobjective linear programming is presented. Chapter 5 gives detailed explanations of fundamental notions and methods of stochastic programming including two-stage programming and chance constrained programming. Chapter 6 develops several interactive fuzzy programming approaches to multiobjective stochastic programming problems. Applications to purchase and transportation planning for food retailing are considered in Chapter 7. The book is self-contained because of the three appendices and answers to problems. Appendix A contains a brief summary of the topics from linear algebra. Pertinent results from nonlinear programming are summarized in Appendix B. Appendix C is a clear explanation of the Excel Solver, one of the easiest ways to solve optimization problems, through the use of simple examples of linear and nonlinear programming.

Book Convex Analysis and Minimization Algorithms I

Download or read book Convex Analysis and Minimization Algorithms I written by Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convex Analysis may be considered as a refinement of standard calculus, with equalities and approximations replaced by inequalities. As such, it can easily be integrated into a graduate study curriculum. Minimization algorithms, more specifically those adapted to non-differentiable functions, provide an immediate application of convex analysis to various fields related to optimization and operations research. These two topics making up the title of the book, reflect the two origins of the authors, who belong respectively to the academic world and to that of applications. Part I can be used as an introductory textbook (as a basis for courses, or for self-study); Part II continues this at a higher technical level and is addressed more to specialists, collecting results that so far have not appeared in books.

Book Nondifferentiable Optimization

Download or read book Nondifferentiable Optimization written by V.F. Dem'yanov and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-12-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of recent coinage, the term "nondifferentiable optimization" (NDO) covers a spectrum of problems related to finding extremal values of nondifferentiable functions. Problems of minimizing nonsmooth functions arise in engineering applications as well as in mathematics proper. The Chebyshev approximation problem is an ample illustration of this. Without loss of generality, we shall consider only minimization problems. Among nonsmooth minimization problems, minimax problems and convex problems have been studied extensively ([31], [36], [57], [110], [120]). Interest in NDO has been constantly growing in recent years (monographs: [30], [81], [127] and articles and papers: [14], [20], [87]-[89], [98], [130], [135], [140]-[142], [152], [153], [160], all dealing with various aspects of non smooth optimization). For solving an arbitrary minimization problem, it is neces sary to: 1. Study properties of the objective function, in particular, its differentiability and directional differentiability. 2. Establish necessary (and, if possible, sufficient) condi tions for a global or local minimum. 3. Find the direction of descent (steepest or, simply, feasible--in appropriate sense). 4. Construct methods of successive approximation. In this book, the minimization problems for nonsmooth func tions of a finite number of variables are considered. Of fun damental importance are necessary conditions for an extremum (for example, [24], [45], [57], [73], [74], [103], [159], [163], [167], [168].