Optimization Methods

Yair Censor

Optimization Methods

Department of Mathematics

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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).

Original language	English
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

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.

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