E-raamat: Frontiers in Global Optimization

Floudas (Princeton University) and Pardalos (University of Florida) present refereed invited papers submitted at the June 2003 Fourth International Conference on Frontiers in Global Optimization held in Greece. Papers focus on deterministic methods and applications of global optimization in several branches of applied science and engineering, computer science, computational chemistry, structural biology, and bio-informatics. The book is addressed to faculty, students, and researchers in optimization, engineering, computational chemistry and biology, computer science, and applied mathematics. Some topics explored are the Steiner ratio and the homochirality of biomacromolecular structures, quasiconvexity and fractional programming, and the existence of polyhedral convex envelopes. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Global Optimization has emerged as one of the most exciting new areas of mathematical programming. Global optimization has received a wide attraction from many fields in the past few years, due to the success of new algorithms for addressing previously intractable problems from diverse areas such as computational chemistry and biology, biomedicine, structural optimization, computer sciences, operations research, economics, and engineering design and control.
The chapters in this volume focus on recent deterministic methods and stochastic methods for global optimization, distributed computing methods in global optimization, and applications of global optimization in several branches of applied science and engineering, computer science, computational chemistry, structural biology, and bio-informatics.