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Provides chapter-end exercises to drill the students in self-study. Download Optimization Techniques And Applications With Examples books , A guide to modern optimization applications and techniques in newly emerging areas spanning optimization, data science, machine intelligence, engineering, and computer sciences Optimization Techniques and Applications with Examples introduces the fundamentals of all the commonly used techniques in optimization that encompass the broadness and diversity of the methods traditional and new and algorithms.

The author—a noted expert in the field—covers a wide range of topics including mathematical foundations, optimization formulation, optimality conditions, algorithmic complexity, linear programming, convex optimization, and integer programming. In addition, the book discusses artificial neural network, clustering and classifications, constraint-handling, queueing theory, support vector machine and multi-objective optimization, evolutionary computation, nature-inspired algorithms and many other topics.

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Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition, and a primal-dual interiorpoint algorithm. The final chapters present network optimizationand integer programming problems, highlighting various specializedtopics including label-correcting algorithms for the shortest pathproblem, preprocessing and probing in integer programming, liftingof valid inequalities, and branch and cut algorithms.

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Search for:. Author : Gupta C. If there are no constraints i. If there is NO randomness in the formulation, the problem is called deterministic and in fact all the above problems are essentially deterministic. However, if there is uncer- tainty in the variables or function forms, then optimization involves probability distribution and expectation, such problems are often called stochastic opti- mization or robust optimization.

We summarize most of these terms in Figure I. Whether an optimization problem is considered easy or hard, it can depend on many factors and the actual perspective of mathematical formulations.

In fact, three factors that make a problem more challenging are: nonlinearity of the objective function, the high dimensionality of the problem, and the complex shape of the search domain. In most cases, algorithms to solve such problems are more likely to get trapped in local modes. Combinatorial optimization Discrete In some cases, feasible regions can be split into multiple disconnected regions with isolated islands, which makes it harder for algorithms to search all the feasible regions thus potentially missing the true optimality.

Other factors such as the evaluation time of an objective are also important. In many applications such as protein folding, bio-informatics, aero-space engi- neering, and deep machine learning ML , the evaluation of a single objective can take a long time from a few hours to days or even weeks , therefore the computational costs can be very high.

Introduction xxix Algorithms for solving optimization problems tend to be iterative, and thus multiple evaluations of objectives are needed, typically hundreds or thousands or even millions of evaluations. If the objective is not smooth or has a kink, then the Nelder—Mead simplex method can be used because it is a gradient-free method, and can work well even for problems with discontinuities, but it can become slow and get stuck in a local mode.

Algorithms for solving nonlinear optimization are diverse, including the trust-region method, interior-point method, and others, but they are mostly local search methods. Quadratic programming QP and sequential quadratic programming use such convexity properties to their advantage.

But, if an LP problem has integer vari- ables, the simplex method will not work directly, it has to be combined with branch and bound to solve IP problems.

As traditional methods are usually local search algorithms, one of the current trends is to use heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms. However, recent trends tend to name all stochastic algorithms with randomization and local search as metaheuristic. Here, we will also use this convention. Randomization provides a good way to move away from local search to the search on the global scale.

Therefore, almost all metaheuristic algorithms intend to be suitable for global optimization, though global optimality may be still challenging to achieve for most problems in practice. Most metaheuristic algorithms are nature-inspired as they have been devel- oped based on some abstraction of nature. Nature has evolved over millions of years and has found perfect solutions to almost all the problems she met.

Consequently, they are said to be biology-inspired or simply bio-inspired. Two major components of any metaheuristic algorithms are: selection of the best solutions and randomization. Integer programming branch and bound, Convex optimization QP, Algorithms Gradient-free Nelder—Mead, Heuristic evolution strategy, Metaheuristic Trajectory-based SA, Supervised learning regression, ANN, Stochastic learning Unsupervised learning clustering, ANN, Figure I. The good combination of these two components will usually ensure that the global optimality is achievable.

One way is to classify them as: population-based and trajectory-based. PSO and FA are also referred to as agent-based algorithms. On the other hand, simulated annealing SA uses a single agent or solution which moves through the design space or search space in a piecewise style.

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