Algorithmic principles of mathematical programming

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The present book wants to introduce the reader to the fundamental algorithmic techniques in mathematical programming with strong emphasis on the central position of linear algebra, both in the structural analysis and the computational procedure. The authors stress the role of the presentation of a problem in terms of explicit functions that encode the set of admissible solutions and the quantity to be optimized. The presentation is crucial for the design of a solution method and its efficiency. Chapter I reviews material about (real) vector spaces and differentiable functions, providing proofs of facts that might be not familiar to the reader. Chapter II introduces the fundamental techniques of numerical linear algebra and the third one provides the corresponding geometrical point of view. Then linear programs are treated. Having linear techniques at disposition, discrete optimization problems and theories for analyzing their complexity with respect to their solvability by ``efficient algorithms have been investigated. Nonlinear programs proper are presented in the last three chapters. The book contains many examples and exercises, marked ``Ex, which are meant to be an integral part of the material.




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