The articles that comprise this distinguished annual volume for the Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics series have been written in honor of Gilbert Strang, a
This volume contains a thorough overview of the rapidly growing field of global optimization, with chapters on key topics such as complexity, heuristic methods,
Combinatorial and global optimization problems appear in a wide range of applications in operations research, engineering, biological science, and computer scie
Optimization is of critical importance in engineering. Engineers constantly strive for the best possible solutions, the most economical use of limited resources
Due to the general complementary convex structure underlying most nonconvex optimization problems encountered in applications, convex analysis plays an essentia