Nonlinear Programming: Analysis and Methods

Nonlinear Programming: Analysis and Methods
ISBN-10
0136236030
ISBN-13
9780136236030
Series
Nonlinear Programming
Category
Mathematics / Linear & Nonlinear Programming
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
1976
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Author
M. Avriel

Description

Classical optimization - unconstrained and equality constrained problems; Optimality conditions for constrained extrema; Convex sets and functions; Duality in nonlinear convex programming; Generalized convexity; Analysis of selected nonlinear programming problems; One-dimensional optimization; Multidimensional unconstrained optimization without derivative: empirical and conjugate direction methods; Second derivative, steepest descent and conjugate gradient methods; Variable metric algorithms; Penalty function methods; Solution of constrained problems by extensions of unconstrained optimization techniques; Approximation-type algorithms.

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