Essays And Surveys In Global Optimization (Hardcover)

Foreword.- Avant-propos.- Contributing Authors.- Preface.- Unilaterial Analysis and Duality.- Monotonic Optimization: Branch and Cut Methods.- Duality Bound Methods in Global Optimization.- General Quadratic Programming.- On Solving Polynomial, Factorable, and Black-box Optimization Problems Using the RLT Methodology.- Bilevel Programming.- Applications of Global Optimization to Portfolio Analysis.- Optimization Techniques in Medicine.- Global Optimization in Geometry - Circle Packing into the Square.- A Deterministic Global Optimization Algorithm for Design Problems.