1st Edition
Optimization in Industry Volume 1, Optimization Techniques
By T.A.J. Nicholson
Copyright 1971
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
235 Pages
by
Routledge
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As optimization techniques have developed, a gap has arisen between the people devising the methods and the people who actually need to use them. Research into methods is necessarily long-term and located usually in academic establishments; whereas the application of an optimization technique, normally in an industrial environment, has to be justified financially in the short term. The gap is... Read more
Preface 1 The study of optimization 2 Mathematical background 3 Optimization problems and methods 4 Calculus and Lagrange multipliers 5 Linear programming 6 Optimization of non-linear functions 7 Dynamic programming 8 Branch and bound methods 9 Permutation procedures 10 Heuristic techniques 11 Problem specification and mathematical treatment
Biography
T.A.J. Nicholson
