A modern, up-to-date introduction to optimization theory and methods This authoritative book serves as an introductory text to optimization at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. With consistently accessible and elementary treatment of all topics, An Introduction to Optimization, Second Edition helps students build a solid working knowledge of the field, including unconstrained optimization, linear programming, and constrained optimization.
Supplemented with more than one hundred tables and illustrations, an extensive bibliography, and numerous worked examples to illustrate both theory and algorithms, this book also provides: A review of the required mathematical background material A mathematical discussion at a level accessible to MBA and business students A treatment of both linear and nonlinear programming An introduction to recent developments, including neural networks, genetic algorithms, and interior-point methods A chapter on the use of descent algorithms for the training of feedforward neural networks Exercise problems after every chapter, many new to this edition MATLAB(r) exercises and examples Accompanying Instructor's Solutions Manual available on request An Introduction to Optimization, Second Edition helps students prepare for the advanced topics and technological developments that lie ahead. It is also a useful book for researchers and professionals in mathematics, electrical engineering, economics, statistics, and business.
- ISBN10 0471391263
- ISBN13 9780471391265
- Publish Date 10 August 2001 (first published 17 November 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 March 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 496
- Language English