Numerical Optimization: Theoretical and Practical Aspects (Paperback, 2, 2006)

Unconstrained Problems.- General Introduction.- Basic Methods.- Line-Searches.- Newtonian Methods.- Conjugate Gradient.- Special Methods.- A Case Study: Seismic Reection Tomography.- Nonsmooth Optimization.- to Nonsmooth Optimization.- Some Methods in Nonsmooth Optimization.- Bundle Methods. The Quest for Descent.- Applications of Nonsmooth Optimization.- Computational Exercises.- Newton's Methods in Constrained Optimization.- Background.- Local Methods for Problems with Equality Constraints.- Local Methods for Problems with Equality and InequalityConstraints.- Exact Penalization.- Globalization by Line-Search.- Quasi-Newton Versions.- Interior-Point Algorithms for Linear and QuadraticOptimization.- Linearly Constrained Optimization and SimplexAlgorithm.- Linear Monotone Complementarity and Associated Vector Fields.- Predictor-Corrector Algorithms.- Non-Feasible Algorithms.- Self-Duality.- One-Step Methods.- Complexity of Linear Optimization Problems with Integer Data.- Karmarkar's Algorithm.