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Optimization Methods and Applications 2001 Edition
Contributor(s): Xiao-Qi Yang (Editor), Kok Lay Teo (Editor), Caccetta, Lou (Editor)
ISBN: 0792368665     ISBN-13: 9780792368663
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $208.99  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2001
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Annotation: The book includes chapters on optimal control, nonlinear programming, global optimization, network optimization, and dynamic systems, dealing with theory, computational techniques and real-world applications. For the application chapters, the topics involved are optimum digital Laguerre network, stochastic optimal control model of solar powered car, personnel task scheduling problem, envelope constrained filter design and optimal steel casting. For practitioners, postgraduate students and researchers in optimization and optimal control.
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Electrical
- Mathematics | Linear & Nonlinear Programming
- Mathematics | Calculus
Dewey: 519.6
LCCN: 2001029077
Series: Applied Optimization
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.80 lbs) 414 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This edited book is dedicated to Professor N. U. Ahmed, a leading scholar and a renowned researcher in optimal control and optimization on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa in 1999. The contributions of this volume are in the areas of optimal control, non- linear optimization and optimization applications. They are mainly the im- proved and expanded versions of the papers selected from those presented in two special sessions of two international conferences. The first special session is Optimization Methods, which was organized by K. L. Teo and X. Q. Yang for the International Conference on Optimization and Variational Inequality, the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1998. The other one is Optimal Control, which was organized byK. Teo and L. Caccetta for the Dynamic Control Congress, Ottawa, 1999. This volume is divided into three parts: Optimal Control; Optimization Methods; and Applications. The Optimal Control part is concerned with com- putational methods, modeling and nonlinear systems. Three computational methods for solving optimal control problems are presented: (i) a regularization method for computing ill-conditioned optimal control problems, (ii) penalty function methods that appropriately handle final state equality constraints, and (iii) a multilevel optimization approach for the numerical solution of opti- mal control problems. In the fourth paper, the worst-case optimal regulation involving linear time varying systems is formulated as a minimax optimal con- trol problem.