Trends In Optimization

Author : Tamas Terlaky
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 1611974674
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications written by Tamas Terlaky and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization is of critical importance in engineering. Engineers constantly strive for the best possible solutions, the most economical use of limited resources, and the greatest efficiency. As system complexity increases, these goals mandate the use of state-of-the-art optimization techniques. In recent years, the theory and methodology of optimization have seen revolutionary improvements. Moreover, the exponential growth in computational power, along with the availability of multicore computing with virtually unlimited memory and storage capacity, has fundamentally changed what engineers can do to optimize their designs. This is a two-way process: engineers benefit from developments in optimization methodology, and challenging new classes of optimization problems arise from novel engineering applications. Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications reviews 10 major areas of optimization and related engineering applications, providing a broad summary of state-of-the-art optimization techniques most important to engineering practice. Each part provides a clear overview of a specific area and discusses a range of real-world problems. The book provides a solid foundation for engineers and mathematical optimizers alike who want to understand the importance of optimization methods to engineering and the capabilities of these methods.

Author : Sébastien Bubeck
Publisher : Foundations and Trends (R) in Machine Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781601988607
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convex Optimization written by Sébastien Bubeck and published by Foundations and Trends (R) in Machine Learning. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents the main complexity theorems in convex optimization and their corresponding algorithms. It begins with the fundamental theory of black-box optimization and proceeds to guide the reader through recent advances in structural optimization and stochastic optimization. The presentation of black-box optimization, strongly influenced by the seminal book by Nesterov, includes the analysis of cutting plane methods, as well as (accelerated) gradient descent schemes. Special attention is also given to non-Euclidean settings (relevant algorithms include Frank-Wolfe, mirror descent, and dual averaging), and discussing their relevance in machine learning. The text provides a gentle introduction to structural optimization with FISTA (to optimize a sum of a smooth and a simple non-smooth term), saddle-point mirror prox (Nemirovski's alternative to Nesterov's smoothing), and a concise description of interior point methods. In stochastic optimization it discusses stochastic gradient descent, mini-batches, random coordinate descent, and sublinear algorithms. It also briefly touches upon convex relaxation of combinatorial problems and the use of randomness to round solutions, as well as random walks based methods.

Author : Stefan Voß
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461557755
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meta-Heuristics written by Stefan Voß and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meta-Heuristics: Advances and Trends in Local Search Paradigms for Optimizations comprises a carefully refereed selection of extended versions of the best papers presented at the Second Meta-Heuristics Conference (MIC 97). The selected articles describe the most recent developments in theory and applications of meta-heuristics, heuristics for specific problems, and comparative case studies. The book is divided into six parts, grouped mainly by the techniques considered. The extensive first part with twelve papers covers tabu search and its application to a great variety of well-known combinatorial optimization problems (including the resource-constrained project scheduling problem and vehicle routing problems). In the second part we find one paper where tabu search and simulated annealing are investigated comparatively and two papers which consider hybrid methods combining tabu search with genetic algorithms. The third part has four papers on genetic and evolutionary algorithms. Part four arrives at a new paradigm within meta-heuristics. The fifth part studies the behavior of parallel local search algorithms mainly from a tabu search perspective. The final part examines a great variety of additional meta-heuristics topics, including neural networks and variable neighbourhood search as well as guided local search. Furthermore, the integration of meta-heuristics with the branch-and-bound paradigm is investigated.

Author : Sinan Melih Nigdeli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303061848X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Structural Engineering—Optimization written by Sinan Melih Nigdeli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an up-to-date source for computation applications of optimization, prediction via artificial intelligence methods, and evaluation of metaheuristic algorithm with different structural applications. As the current interest of researcher, metaheuristic algorithms are a high interest topic area since advance and non-optimized problems via mathematical methods are challenged by the development of advance and modified algorithms. The artificial intelligence (AI) area is also important in predicting optimum results by skipping long iterative optimization processes. The machine learning used in generation of AI models also needs optimum results of metaheuristic-based approaches. This book is a great source to researcher, graduate students, and bachelor students who gain project about structural optimization. Differently from the academic use, the chapter that emphasizes different scopes and methods can take the interest and help engineer working in design and production of structural engineering projects.

Author : Yin, Peng-Yeng
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 146662146X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends in Developing Metaheuristics, Algorithms, and Optimization Approaches written by Yin, Peng-Yeng and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in metaheuristics continue to advance computation beyond its traditional methods. With groundwork built on multidisciplinary research findings; metaheuristics, algorithms, and optimization approaches uses memory manipulations in order to take full advantage of strategic level problem solving. Trends in Developing Metaheuristics, Algorithms, and Optimization Approaches provides insight on the latest advances and analysis of technologies in metaheuristics computing. Offering widespread coverage on topics such as genetic algorithms, differential evolution, and ant colony optimization, this book aims to be a forum researchers, practitioners, and students who wish to learn and apply metaheuristic computing.

Author : Stephen Boyd
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
ISBN 13 : 160198460X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning Via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers written by Stephen Boyd and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the theory and history of the alternating direction method of multipliers, and discusses its applications to a wide variety of statistical and machine learning problems of recent interest, including the lasso, sparse logistic regression, basis pursuit, covariance selection, support vector machines, and many others.

Author : Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy
Publisher : Foundations and Trends in Optimization
ISBN 13 : 9781680833904
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Faces of Degeneracy in Conic Optimization written by Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy and published by Foundations and Trends in Optimization. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph describes various reasons for the loss of strict feasibility, whether due to poor modeling choices or (more interestingly) rich underlying structure, and discusses ways to cope with it and, in many pronounced cases, how to use it as an advantage.

Author : Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Publisher : Foundations & Trends
ISBN 13 : 9781601985460
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Online Learning and Online Convex Optimization written by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and published by Foundations & Trends. This book was released on 2012 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online Learning and Online Convex Optimization is a modern overview of online learning. Its aim is to provide the reader with a sense of some of the interesting ideas and in particular to underscore the centrality of convexity in deriving efficient online learning algorithms.

Author : V. Jeyakumar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387267719
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuous Optimization written by V. Jeyakumar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuous optimization is the study of problems in which we wish to opti mize (either maximize or minimize) a continuous function (usually of several variables) often subject to a collection of restrictions on these variables. It has its foundation in the development of calculus by Newton and Leibniz in the 17*^ century. Nowadys, continuous optimization problems are widespread in the mathematical modelling of real world systems for a very broad range of applications. Solution methods for large multivariable constrained continuous optimiza tion problems using computers began with the work of Dantzig in the late 1940s on the simplex method for linear programming problems. Recent re search in continuous optimization has produced a variety of theoretical devel opments, solution methods and new areas of applications. It is impossible to give a full account of the current trends and modern applications of contin uous optimization. It is our intention to present a number of topics in order to show the spectrum of current research activities and the development of numerical methods and applications.

Author : Ratan Prakash Agarwal
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810223823
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Trends in Optimization Theory and Applications written by Ratan Prakash Agarwal and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Scientific Series in Applicable Analysis (WSSIAA) aims at reporting new developments of high mathematical standard and current interest. Each volume in the series shall be devoted to the mathematical analysis that has been applied or potentially applicable to the solutions of scientific, engineering, and social problems. This volume contains 30 research articles on the theory of optimization and its applications by the leading scientists in the field. It is hoped that the material in the present volume will open new vistas in research.Contributors: B D O Anderson, M Bertaja, O J Boxma, O Burdakov, A Cantoni, D J Clements, B D Craven, J B Cruz, Jr., P Diamond, S V Drakunov, Y G Evtushenko, N M Filatov, I Galligani, J C Geromel, F Giannessi, M J Grimble, G O Guardabassi, D-W Gu, C H Houpis, D G Hull, C Itiki, X Jian, M A Johnson, R E Kalaba, J C Kalkkuhl, M R Katebi, T J Kim, P Kloeden, T Kobylarz, A J Laub, C S Lee, G Leitmann, B-G Liu, J Liu, Z-Q Luo, K A Lurie, P Maponi, J B Matson, A Mess, G Pacelli, M Pachter, I Postlethwaite, T Rapcsak, M C Recchioni, Y Sakawa, S V Savastyuk, K Schittkowski, Y Shi, M A Sikora, D D Siljak, K L Teo, C Tovey, P Tseng, F E Udwadia, H Unbehauen, A Vladimirov, B Vo, J F Whidborne, R Xu, P L Yu, V G Zhadan, F Zirilli.