Optimization Methods and Applications (Applied Optimization, Volume 52)

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.