Stochastic Adaptive Search for Global Optimization

Z B Zabinsky

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 72
• The field of global optimization has been developing at a rapid pace. There is a journal devoted to the topic, as well as many publications and notabl... Lees meer

Multilevel Optimization: Algorithms and Applications

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 20
• Researchers working with nonlinear programming often claim "the word is non- linear" indicating that real applications require nonlinear modeling. The... Lees meer

Finite Element Method for Hemivariational Inequalities

J Haslinger, M Miettinen, Panagiotis D Panagiotopoulos

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 35
• Hemivariational inequalities represent an important class of problems in nonsmooth and nonconvex mechanics. By means of them, problems with nonmonoton... Lees meer

Nonlinear Optimization in Finite Dimensions

Hubertus Th Jongen, P Jonker, F Twilt

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 47
• At the heart of the topology of global optimization lies Morse Theory: The study of the behaviour of lower level sets of functions as the level varies... Lees meer

Variational and Non-Variational Methods in Nonlinear Analysis and Boundary Value Problems

Dumitru Motreanu, Vicentiu D Radulescu

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 67
• This book reflects a significant part of authors' research activity dur- ing the last ten years. The present monograph is constructed on the results o... Lees meer

Global Optimization

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 85
• Optimization models based on a nonlinear systems description often possess multiple local optima. The objective of global optimization (GO) is to find... Lees meer

Robust Discrete Optimization and Its Applications

Panos Kouvelis, Gang Yu

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 14
• This book deals with decision making in environments of significant data un- certainty, with particular emphasis on operations and production manageme... Lees meer

Nonsmooth Approach to Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints

Jiri Outrata, M Kocvara, J Zowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 28
• In the early fifties, applied mathematicians, engineers and economists started to pay c10se attention to the optimization problems in which another (l... Lees meer

A Mathematical Structure for Emergent Computation

Victor Korotkikh

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 36
• An understanding of emergent computation requires a profound revision of the most fundamental ideas. A noticeable attempt of such a rethinking is a wo... Lees meer

Semi-Infinite Programming

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 25
• Semi-infinite programming (briefly: SIP) is an exciting part of mathematical programming. SIP problems include finitely many variables and, in contras... Lees meer

Multiscale Optimization Methods and Applications

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 82
• As optimization researchers tackle larger and larger problems, scale interactions play an increasingly important role. One general strategy for dealin... Lees meer

Topological Aspects of Nonsmooth Optimization

Vladimir Shikhman

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 64
• This book deals with nonsmooth structures arising within the optimization setting. It considers four optimization problems, namely, mathematical progr... Lees meer

Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 50
• Nonsmoothness and nonconvexity arise in numerous applications of mechan- ics and modeling due to the need for studying more and more complicated phe- ... Lees meer

Practical Bilevel Optimization

Jonathan F Bard

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 30
• The use of optimization techniques has become integral to the design and analysis of most industrial and socio-economic systems. Great strides have be... Lees meer

Multivalued Analysis and Nonlinear Programming Problems with Perturbations

B Luderer, L Minchenko, T Satsura

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 66
• This book is concerned with topological and differential properties of multivalued mappings and marginal functions. Beside this applica- tions to the ... Lees meer

Abstract Convexity and Global Optimization

Alexander M Rubinov

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 44
• Special tools are required for examining and solving optimization problems. The main tools in the study of local optimization are classical calculus a... Lees meer

Complementarity, Equilibrium, Efficiency and Economics

G Isac, V a Bulavsky, Vyacheslav V Kalashnikov

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 63
• In complementarity theory, which is a relatively new domain of applied mathematics, several kinds of mathematical models and problems related to the s... Lees meer

Multicriteria Methodology for Decision Aiding

B Roy

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 12
• axiomatic results should be at the heart of such a science. Through them, we should be able to enlighten and scientifically assist decision-making pro... Lees meer

Advances in Multicriteria Analysis

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 5
• As its title implies, Advances in Multicriteria Analysis presents the most recent developments in multicriteria analysis and in some of its principal ... Lees meer

Control of Spatially Structured Random Processes and Random Fields with Applications

Ruslan K Chornei, Hans Daduna, Pavel S Knopov

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 86
• This book is devoted to the study and optimization of spatiotem- ral stochastic processes. These are processes that simultaneously - velop in space an... Lees meer

Quasidifferentiability and Related Topics

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 43
• 2 Radiant sets 236 3 Co-radiant sets 239 4 Radiative and co-radiative sets 241 5 Radiant sets with Lipschitz continuous Minkowski gauges 245 6 Star-sh... Lees meer

From Local to Global Optimization

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 53
• On August 1997 a conference titled "From Local to Global Optimiza- tion" was held at Storgarden in Rimfor.sa near the Linkoping Institute of Technolog... Lees meer

Global Optimization with Non-Convex Constraints

Roman G Strongin, Yaroslav D Sergeyev

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 45
• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein, Readers Digest, 1977) The modern practice of creating technical sy... Lees meer

Foundations of Bilevel Programming

Stephan Dempe

• Paperback | Engels | Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications | nr. 61
• Bilevel programming problems are hierarchical optimization problems where the constraints of one problem (the so-called upper level problem) are defin... Lees meer