Optimization Structure and Applications /

Optimization: Structure and Applications presents selected contributions from renowned researchers in the fields of operations research and industrial engineering. The text is divided into two parts: the first focuses on mathematical structure, and the second, on real-world applications. The book in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pearce, Charles. (Editor), Hunt, Emma. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
Edition:1.
Series:Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 32
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98096-6
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Editors
  • Part I Optimization: Structure
  • On the nondifferentiability of cone-monotone functions in Banach spaces
  • Duality and a Farkas lemma for integer programs
  • Some nonlinear Lagrange and penalty functions for problems with a single constraint
  • Convergence of truncates in l1 optimal feedback control
  • Asymptotical stability of optimal paths in nonconvex problems
  • Pontryagin principle with a PDE - a unified approach
  • A turnpike property for discrete-time control systems
  • Mond-Weir duality
  • Computing in the fundamental matrix of a M/G/1-type Markov chain
  • A comparison of probabilistic and invariant subspace methods for the block M/G/1 Markov chain
  • Interpolating maps, the modulus map and the Hadamard's inequality
  • Part II Optimization: Applications
  • Estimating the size of correcting codes using extremal graph problems
  • New perspectives on optimal transforms of random vectors
  • Optimum capacity assignment in general queueing networks,- Analysis of a simple control policy for stormwater management in two connected dams
  • Optimal design of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems
  • The (k+1)-th component of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems
  • Optimizing properties of plastics compounds containing wood flour
  • Constrained spanning, Steiner trees and the triangle inequality
  • Parallel line search
  • Alternative mathematical programming models: a case for a coal blending decision process.