Applied Optimization

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides step-by-step descriptions of how to formulate numerical problems and develops techniques for solving them. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Problems, algorithms and
solutions; 3. Transformation of problems; Part I: Linear simultaneous equations;
4. Case studies; 5. Algorithms; Part II: Non-linear simultaneous equations; 6.
Case Studies; 7. Algorithms; 8. Solution of the case studies; Part III:
Unconstrained optimization; 9. Case studies; 10 Algorithms; 11. Solution of the
case studies; Part IV: Equality-constrained optimization; 12. Case studies; 13.
Algorithms for linear constraints; 14. Algorithms for non-linear constraints;
Part V: Inequality-constrained optimization; 15. Case studies; 16. Algorithms
for non-negativity constraints; 17. Algorithms for linear constraints; 18.
Solution of the linearly constrained case studies; 19. Algorithms for non-linear
constraints; 20. Solution of the non-linearly constrained case studies;
References; Index; Appendices. 

Autoreninfo

ROSS BALDICK is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research involves optimization and economic theory applied to electric power system operations and the public policy and technical issues associated with electric transmission under deregulation. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and the chairman of the System Economics Sub-Committee of the IEEE Power Engineering