Large Scale Optimization: State of the Art - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792327985 ISBN 13: 9780792327981

Publisher: Springer, 1994

Synopsis

On February 15-17, 1993, a conference on Large Scale Optimization, hosted by the Center for Applied Optimization, was held at the University of Florida. The con­ ference was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Army Research Office, and the University of Florida, with endorsements from SIAM, MPS, ORSA and IMACS. Forty one invited speakers presented papers on mathematical program­ ming and optimal control topics with an emphasis on algorithm development, real world applications and numerical results. Participants from Canada, Japan, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Denmark gave the meeting an important international component. At­ tendees also included representatives from IBM, American Airlines, US Air, United Parcel Serice, AT & T Bell Labs, Thinking Machines, Army High Performance Com­ puting Research Center, and Argonne National Laboratory. In addition, the NSF sponsored attendance of thirteen graduate students from universities in the United States and abroad. Accurate modeling of scientific problems often leads to the formulation of large­ scale optimization problems involving thousands of continuous and/or discrete vari­ ables. Large scale optimization has seen a dramatic increase in activities in the past decade. This has been a natural consequence of new algorithmic developments and of the increased power of computers. For example, decomposition ideas proposed by G. Dantzig and P. Wolfe in the 1960's, are now implement able in distributed process­ ing systems, and today many optimization codes have been implemented on parallel machines.

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Synopsis

This book is a collection of papers presented at the Large Scale Optimization Conference held at the Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, in February, 1993. Accurate modelling of scientific problems often leads to the formulation of large-scale optimization problems involving thousands of continuous and/or discrete variables. As a consequence of new algorithmic developments and of the increased power of computers, large-scale optimization has seen a dramatic increase in activities in the past decade.Topics include large-scale linear, nonlinear and stochastic programming, network optimization, decomposition methods, methods for optimal control, nonsmooth equations, integer programming, and software development. In addition, applications are included in location theory, structural mechanics, molecular configuration, transportation, multitarget tracking, and database design. The book is a valuable source of information for faculty students and researchers in mathematical programming and related fields.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792327985
• ISBN 13: 9780792327981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 470
• Editor: Hager William W., Hearn D.W., Pardalos Panos M.