As optimization techniques have developed, a gap has arisen
between the people devising the methods and the people who actually
need to use them. Research into methods is necessarily long-term
and located usually in academic establishments; whereas the
application of an optimization technique, normally in an industrial
environment, has to be justified financially in the short term. The
gap is probably inevitable; but there is no need for textbooks to
reflect it. Teaching of optimization techniques separately from
their connection with applications is pointless. This book gives a
detailed exposition of the techniques.
In this first volume, T. A. J. Nicholson demonstrates the full
range of techniques available to the practitioner for the solution
of varying problems. For each technique, the background reasoning
behind its development is explained in simple terms; where helpful
it is supported by a geometrical argument; and the iterative
algorithm for finding the optimum is defined clearly. These steps
enable the reader not only to see plainly what is happening in the
method but also to reach a level of understanding necessary to
write computer programs for optimization techniques.
Problems are tackled in the same way--by searching a feasible
region for an optimum. This approach helps the reader to develop
the most essential of all skills--selecting appropriate techniques
for different circumstances. The numerous worked examples in the
text, supported by worked solutions, and the exercises at the end
of the chapters are important aids to learning and to teachers.
This book serves as an introduction to optimization techniques for
students as well as a reference work for the practitioner in
business and industry.
"T. A. J. Nicholson" is Senior Lecturer at the London Business
School with research and consulting interests in industrial control
systems.
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