Numerical Optimization

This book starts with illustrations of the ubiquitous character of optimization, and describes numerical algorithms in a tutorial way. It covers fundamental algorithms as well as more specialized and advanced topics for unconstrained and constrained problems. This new edition of Numerical Optimization contains computational exercises in the form of case studies which help understanding optimization methods beyond their theoretical description when coming to actual implementation.

Auteur

The four authors are leading international specialists in various branches of nonlinear optimization (one of them received the Dantzig Prize). They are working - or have worked - at INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, and they also teach in various universities and "Grandes Écoles". All of them continually collaborate with industry on problems dealing with optimization, in fields such as energy management, geoscience, life sciences, etc.

Contenu

Unconstrained Problems.- General Introduction.- Basic Methods.- Line-Searches.- Newtonian Methods.- Conjugate Gradient.- Special Methods.- A Case Study: Seismic Reection Tomography.- Nonsmooth Optimization.- to Nonsmooth Optimization.- Some Methods in Nonsmooth Optimization.- Bundle Methods. The Quest for Descent.- Applications of Nonsmooth Optimization.- Computational Exercises.- Newton's Methods in Constrained Optimization.- Background.- Local Methods for Problems with Equality Constraints.- Local Methods for Problems with Equality and InequalityConstraints.- Exact Penalization.- Globalization by Line-Search.- Quasi-Newton Versions.- Interior-Point Algorithms for Linear and QuadraticOptimization.- Linearly Constrained Optimization and SimplexAlgorithm.- Linear Monotone Complementarity and Associated Vector Fields.- Predictor-Corrector Algorithms.- Non-Feasible Algorithms.- Self-Duality.- One-Step Methods.- Complexity of Linear Optimization Problems with Integer Data.- Karmarkar's Algorithm.