Optimization: Structure and Applications

List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Preface.- Editors.-
Part I Optimization: Structure.- On the nondifferentiability of cone-monotone functions in Banach spaces.- Duality and a Farkas lemma for integer programs.- Some nonlinear Lagrange and penalty functions for problems with a single constraint.- Convergence of truncates in l 1 optimal feedback control.- Asymptotical stability of optimal paths in nonconvex problems.- Pontryagin principle with a PDE - a unified approach.- A turnpike property for discrete-time control systems.- Mond-Weir duality.- Computing in the fundamental matrix of a M/G/1-type Markov chain.- A comparison of probabilistic and invariant subspace methods for the block M/G/1 Markov chain.- Interpolating maps, the modulus map and the Hadamard's inequality.-
Part II Optimization: Applications.- Estimating the size of correcting codes using extremal graph problems.- New perspectives on optimal transforms of random vectors.- Optimum capacity assignment in general queueing networks,- Analysis of a simple control policy for stormwater management in two connected dams.- Optimal design of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems.- The (k+1)-th component of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems.- Optimizing properties of plastics compounds containing wood flour.- Constrained spanning, Steiner trees and the triangle inequality.- Parallel line search.- Alternative mathematical programming models: a case for a coal blending decision process.