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Présentation

Every engineer and decision scientist must have a good mastery of optimization, an essential element in their toolkit. Thus, this articulate introductory textbook will certainly be welcomed by students and practicing professionals alike. Drawing from his vast teaching experience, the author skillfully leads the reader through a rich choice of topics in a coherent, fluid and tasteful blend of models and methods anchored on the underlying mathematical notions (only prerequisites: first year calculus and linear algebra). Topics range from the classics to some of the most recent developments in smooth unconstrained and constrained optimization, like descent methods, conjugate gradients, Newton and quasi-Newton methods, linear programming and the simplex method, trust region and interior point methods. Furthermore elements of discrete and combinatorial optimization like network optimization, integer programming and heuristic local search methods are also presented. This book presents optimization as a modeling tool that beyond supporting problem formulation plus design and implementation of efficient algorithms, also is a language suited for interdisciplinary human interaction. Readers further become aware that while the roots of mathematical optimization go back to the work of giants like Newton, Lagrange, Cauchy, Euler or Gauss, it did not become a discipline on its own until World War Two. Also that its present momentum really resulted from its symbiosis with modern computers, which made it possible to routinely solve problems with millions of variables and constraints. With his witty, entertaining, yet precise style, Michel Bierlaire captivates his readers and awakens their desire to try out the presented material in a creative mode. One of the outstanding assets of this book is the unified, clear and concise rendering of the various algorithms, which makes them easily readable and translatable into any high level programming language. This is an addictive book that I am very pleased to recommend. Prof. Thomas M. Liebling

Sommaire

  • I Formulation and analysis of the problem – 1 Formulation – 2 Objective function – 3 Constraints – 4 Introduction to duality
  • II Optimality conditions – 5 Unconstrained optimization – 6 Constrained optimization
  • III Solving equations – 7 Newton’s method – 8 Quasi-Newton methods
  • IV Unconstrained optimization – 9 Quadratic problems – 10 Newton’s local method – 11 Descent methods and line search – 12 Trust region – 13 Quasi-Newton methods – 14 Least squares problem – 15 Direct search methods
  • V Constrained optimization – 16 The simplex method – 17 Newton’s method for constrained optimization – 18 Interior point methods – 19 Augmented Lagrangian method – 20 Sequential quadratic programming
  • VI Networks – 21 Introduction and definitions – 22 The transhipment problemc – 23 Shortest path – 24 Maximum flow
  • VII Discrete optimization – 25 Introduction to discrete optimization – 26 Exact methods for discrete optimization – 27 Heuristics
  • VIII Appendices – A Notations – B Definitions – C Theorems – D Projects
  • References

Informations

Editeur : EPFL Press English Imprint

Auteur(s) : Michel Bierlaire

Collection : Mathematics

Publication : 2 décembre 2021

Edition : 2e édition

Support(s) : Livre papier, eBook [PDF]

Nombre de pages Livre papier : 736

Nombre de pages eBook [PDF] : 736

Format (en mm) Livre papier : 160 x 240

Taille(s) : 17 Mo (PDF)

Poids (en grammes) : 1290

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9782889152797

EAN13 eBook [PDF] : 9782889145744

DOI eBook [PDF] : 10.55430/6116V1MB

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