Applied optimization. (Q4825129)

The book presents the fundamentals of classical optimization and of linear programming and is intended as a one semester two hours course and two hours seminars a week for students in economics, administration, informatics and to the researchers in applied sciences. Chapter 1 is a short introduction, Chapter two is a substantial prerequisite one and Chapter three is dedicated to unconstrained and constrained classical optimization. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 are dedicated to the problem of linear programming and to simplex and revised simplex method of solution. The duality theory and the postopmization analyses are presented in Chapters 7 and 8 and the transportation problem in Chapter 9. The history and a surprising presentation of Khachiyan's and Karmarkar's algorithms are the objects of Chapter 10 and the solutions of proposed exercises are presented in Chapter 11. The books ends with Bibliography and an Index. The aim of the presentation is to stress the problems' understanding and the utilization of the methods in solving them and in this respect the reviewer is mentioning also the author's temptation of an introduction to Microsoft Excel as a tool for solving linear programming problems.