Description:
This book examines problems in science and engineering, describing key numerical methods applied to real life. It includes case studies in such areas as vehicle route planning and optimal control, scheduling and resource allocation, and worst-case analysis.
Review Quotes:
From the reviews:
"This book gives on 280 pages a broad overview of nonlinear optimization. ... The presented optimization approaches are compared with each other by means of several examples with up to 200 variables. ... the introduction of the different techniques is written in a very comprehensible way. ... each section contains exercises to verify and deepen the understanding of the material." (Andrea Walther, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1167, 2009)