Optimization Structure and Applications / edited by Charles E.M. Pearce, Emma Hunt.

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 E.M (Editor), Hunt, Emma (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 32
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 optimal feedback control 61
  • Asymptotical stability of optimal paths in nonconvex problems
  • Pontryagin principle with a PDE: a unified approach
  • A turnpike property for discrete#x2013;time control systems in metric spaces
  • Mond#x2013;Weir duality
  • Computing the fundamental matrix of an M/G/1#x2013;type Markov chain
  • A comparison of probabilistic and invariant subspace methods for the block //1 Markov chain
  • Interpolating maps, the modulus map and Hadamardard#x2019;s inequality
  • Optimization: Applications
  • Estimating the size of correcting codes using extremal graph problems
  • New perspectives on optimal transforms of random vectors
  • Optimal capacity assignment in general queueing networks
  • Analysis of a simple control policy for stormwater management in two connected dams
  • Optimal design of linear consecutive#x2013;#x2013;out#x2013;of#x2013; systems
  • The (+1)-th component of linear consecutive#x2013;#x2013;out#x2013;of#x2013; systems
  • Optimizing properties of polypropylene and elastomer 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.