Practical Optimization - Algorithms and Engineering Applications

The Optimization Problem.- Basic Principles.- General Properties of Algorithms.- One-Dimensional Optimization.- Basic Multidimensional Gradient Methods.- Conjugate-Direction Methods.- Quasi-Newton Methods.- Minimax Methods.- Applications of Unconstrained Optimization.- Fundamentals of Constrained Optimization.- Linear Programming Part I: The Simplex Method.- Linear Programming Part II: Interior-Point Methods.- Quadratic and Convex Programming.- Semidefinite and Second-Order Cone Programming.- General Nonlinear Optimization Problems.- Applications of Constrained Optimization.