Subject: New Book on Global Optimization


Title:  Developments in Global Optimization

Edited by Immanuel M. Bomze, Tibor Csendes, Reiner Horst and Panos M. Pardalos

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers (kluwer.wkap.com)

Summary: In recent years global optimization has found applications in many
interesting areas of science and technology including molecular biology,
chemical equilibrium problems, medical imaging and networks. The collection of
papers in this book indicates the diverse applicability of global optimization.
Furthermore, various algorithmic, theoretical developments and computational
studies are presented.

The volume contains fully referred and selected papers of the Third Workshop on
Global Optimization, Szeged, Hungary, December 10-14, 1995.

Content:

A. Neumaier: NOP - A Compact Input Format for Nonlinear Optimization Problems,
1-18. 

S. Dallwig, A. Neumaier and H. Schichl: GLOPT - A Program for Constrained
Global Optimization, 19-36.

M.N. Vrahatis, D.G. Sotiropoulos and E.C. Triantafyllou: Global Optimization
for Imprecise Problems, 37-54.

D. Ratz: New Results on Gap-Treating Techniques in Extended Interval Newton
Gauss-Seidel Steps for Global Optimization, 55-72.

P.L. De Angelis, P.M. Pardalos and G. Toraldo: Quadratic Programming with Box
Constraints, 73-93.

I. Bomze, M. Pelillo and R. Giacomini: Evolutionary Approach to the Maximum
Clique Problem: Empirical Evidence on a Larger Scale, 95-108.

C. Stephens: Interval and Bounding Hessians, 109-119.

A. Strekalovsky and I. Vasiliev: On Global Search for Non-Convex Optimal
Control Problems, 121-133.

C.J. Price: A Multistart Linkage Algorithm Using First Derivatives, 135-152.

J. Hichert, A. Hoffmann and H.X. Phu: Convergence Speed of an Integral Method
for Computing the Essential Supremum, 153-170.

Z.B. Zabinsky and B.P. Kristinsdottir: Complexity Analysis Integrating Pure
Adaptive Search (PAS) and Pure Random Search (PRS), 171-181.

J.D. Pinter: LGO - A Program System for Continuous and Lipschitz Global
Optimization, 183-197.

Ya.D. Sergeyev: A Method Using Local Tuning for Minimizing Functions with
Lipschitz Derivatives, 199-216.

K.A. Dill, A.T. Phillips and J.B. Rosen: Molecular Structure Prediction by
Global Optimization, 217-234.

A. Pfening and M. Telek: Optimal Renewal Policy for Slowly Degrading Systems,
235-251.

W. Bollweg, H. Kroll and H. Maurer: Numerical Prediction of Crystal Structures
by Simulated Annealing, 253-288.

I. Garcia, P.M. Ortigosa, L.G. Casado, G.T. Herman and S. Matej:
Multidimensional optimization in image reconstruction from projections,
289-299. 

K. Holmqvist, A. Migdalas and P.M. Pardalos: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search
for a Location Problem with Economies of Scale, 301-313.

B. Imreh, F. Friedler, L.T. Fan: An Algorithm for Improving the Bounding
Procedure in Solving Process Network Synthesis by a B&B Method, 315-348.


Audience: All researchers and students working in mathematical programming.

Published in February 1997, xi+348 pp.; hardbound. ISBN 0-7923-3451-4

Additional information: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~globopt