Optimization seeks to find the best. It could be to design a process that minimizes capital or maximizes material conversion, to choose operating conditions that maximize throughput or minimize waste, ...

Building a chemical plant. Developing an airline route. Modeling the shapes of proteins. Each of these actions requires optimization algorithms – the combination of math and theory translated into ...

Description: Survey of computational tools for solving constrained and unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Emphasis on algorithmic strategies and characteristic structures of nonlinear ...

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