Paul T. Bayesian Methods for Estimating the Reliability in Complex Hierarchical Networks

Springer – 2011, 510 pages. ISBN: 1461402360. The aim of stochastic programming is to find optimal decisions in problems which involve uncertain data. This field is currently developing rapidly with contributions from many disciplines including operations research, mathematics, and probability. At the same time, it is now being applied in a wide variety of subjects ranging from agriculture to financial planning and from industrial engineering to...

Издательство InTech, 2010, -300 pp. This book presents recent contributions of top researchers working with Simulated Annealing (SA). Although it represents a small sample of the research activity on SA, the book will certainly serve as a valuable tool for researchers interested in getting involved in this multidisciplinary field. In fact, one of the salient features is that the book is highly multidisciplinary in terms of application areas sin...

Wiley, 2000. - 450 pages. Fully describes optimization methods that are currently most valuable in solving real-life problems. Since optimization has applications in almost every branch of science and technology, the text emphasizes their practical aspects in conjunction with the heuristics useful in making them perform more reliably and efficiently. To this end, it presents comparative numerical studies to give readers a feel for possibile appl...

John Wiley & Sons, 1980. - 128 Pages. This established textbook is noted for its coverage of optimization methods that are of practical importance. It provides a thorough treatment of standard methods such as linear and quadratic programming, Newton-like methods and the conjugate gradient method. The theoretical aspects of the subject include an extended treatment of optimality conditions and the significance of Lagrange multipliers. The rel...

Krotov V. Global Methods in Optimal Control Theory. Marcel Dekker Inc. , 1996. This work describes all basic equaitons and inequalities that form the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of variational calculus and the theory of optimal control. Subjects addressed include developments in the investigation of optimality conditions, new classes of solutions, analytical and computation methods, and applications. Монография по достаточны...

Vieweg+Teubner, 2011. 163 p. ISBN:3834814946 Due to the growing use of more and more complex computerized systems in safety-critical applications, the formal verification of such systems is increasingly gaining importance. Many automatic and semi-automatic schemes for hardware and software verification ultimately rely on decision procedures for discharging the proof obligations generated during the verification process. Christian Herde deals wi...

Hardcover: 664 pages. Publisher: Springer; 1999. Language: English. Review MMOR Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2001: "The books looks very suitable to be used in an graduate-level course in optimization for students in mathematics, operations research, engineering, and others. Moreover, it seems to be very helpful to do some self-studies in optimization, to complete own knowledge and can be a source of new ideas. I recommend this...

Springer – 2006, 685 pages. ISBN: 0387303030. Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization. It responds to the growing interest in optimization in engineering, science, and business by focusing on the methods that are best suited to practical problems. For this new edition the book has been thoroughly updated throughout. There are new chapters on nonlinear int...

Springer,2005 1. Introduction What is mathematical optimization? Objective and constraint functions Basic optimization concepts Further mathematical prerequisites Unconstrained minimization Line search descent mtthods for uncinstrained mininization 2. General line search descent algorithm for unconstrained minimization One-dimensional line search First order line search descent methods Second order line search descent methods Zero o...

Издательство Springer, 2006, -688 pp. Optimization is a subject that is widely and increasingly used in science, engineering, economics, management, industry, and other areas. It deals with selecting the best of many possible decisions in real-life environment, constructing computational methods to find optimal solutions, exploring the theoretical properties, and studying the computational performance of numerical algorithms implemented based on...