Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Computer Science |
Editors | A. Ralston, E. D. Reilly, Jr. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Pages | 1089-1090 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Edition | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 0470864125 |
State | Published - 1983 |
Abstract
Mathematical optimization deals with the problem of finding (or approximating) a point that gives an optimal (minimal or maximal) value to some function (called the objective function), subject to some additional conditions (called constraints).
Bibliographical note
Also in: Third Edition, 1993, pp. 1003-1005.A revised version appears in: Encyclopedia of Computer Science, (A. Ralston, E.D. Reilly and D. Hemmendinger, Editors), Nature Publishing Group, London, UK, Fourth Edition, 2000, pp. 1339ñ1341.