TY - BOOK AU - Pardalos, Panos M. AU - Resende, Mauricio G.C. TI - Handbook of Applied Optimization SN - 9780195125948 U1 - 519.3 PY - 2001/// CY - New York, N.Y. : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Mathematical optimization N1 - Index; Linear Programming -- Semidefinite Programming -- Combinatorial Optimization -- Quadratic Programming -- Nonlinear Programming -- Deterministic Global Optimization and Its Applications -- Decomposition Methods for Mathematical Programming -- Network Optimization -- Integer Programming -- Artificial Neural Networks in Optimization and Applications -- Stochastic Programming -- Hierarchical Optimization -- Complementarity and Related Problems -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- Randomization in Discrete Optimization: Annealing Algorithms -- Problem Types -- Application Areas -- Optimization Modeling Languages -- Optimization Software Packages -- Optimization Software Libraries -- Optimization Test Problem Libraries -- Parallel Computing Environments -- Experimental Analysis of Optimization Algorithms -- Object-Oriented Programming -- Optimization and the Internet N2 - This text focuses on the algorithmic and computational aspects of optimization, particularly the methods for solving a wide range of decision-making problems. It covers optimization problems in a wide range of settings, from the airline and aerospace industries to telecommunications, finance, health systems, biomedicine, and engineering. ER -