Beschreibung:
This book introduces a general audience to the main facets of optimization.Very little mathematical background is assumed.It should appeal to students, teachers, and a general audience interested in how optimization affects their everyday life, such as people in business.
The three key facets of optimization are the art of constructing optimization models, the science of discovering and implementing efficient algorithms for solving optimization models, and the mathematics of optimization models and algorithms. This book provides an comprehensive introduction to modeling, algorithms and duality and should appeal to several audiences at once: students (as a supplement to a regular textbook), general readers such as people in business (as an introduction to how optimization affects their everyday lives), and instructors (as a source of ideas for how to teach optimization differently).
* Comments on Style and Print Size * Simple Motivating Examples * A Quintessential Optimization Problem * Duality on Bipartite Networks * A Network Flows Overview * Duality in Linear Programming * Golden Age of Optimization * An Algorithmic Revolution * Nonlinear Programming * DLP and Extensions * Optimization: The Big Picture * Bibliography * Index * About the Author