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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Announcing the October 14, 2013, publication by SIAM of:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Global Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Marco Locatelli and Fabio Schoen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization 15<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This volume contains a thorough overview of the rapidly growing field of global optimization, with chapters on key topics such as complexity, heuristic methods, derivation of lower bounds for
minimization problems, and branch-and-bound methods and convergence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The final chapter offers both benchmark test problems and applications of global optimization, such as finding the conformation of a molecule or planning an optimal trajectory for interplanetary
space travel. An appendix provides fundamental information on convex and concave functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Audience<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Global Optimization</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is intended for Ph.D. students, researchers, and practitioners looking for advanced solution methods to difficult
optimization problems. It can be used as a supplementary text in an advanced graduate-level seminar.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the Authors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Marco Locatelli
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">is Professor of Operations Research at the University of Parma, Italy. He serves on the editorial boards of
<i>Computational Optimizatio</i>n and Applications and <i>Journal of Global Optimization</i>. His research interests include the theoretical and practical aspects of global optimization.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fabio Schoen
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">is Professor of Operations Research at the University of Florence, Italy. He serves on the editorial boards of
<i>Computational Optimization</i> <i>and Applications</i> and <i>Journal of Global Optimization</i>; in 2011 he founded KKT, a startup devoted to operations research. His main research interests include developing efficient algorithms for large-scale global
optimization problems.<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Complexity; Chapter 3: Heuristics; Chapter 4: Lower Bounds; Chapter 5: Branch and Bound; Chapter 6: Problems; Appendix A: Basic Definitions and Results on
Convexity; Appendix B: Notation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2013 / viii + 437 pages / Softcover / 978-1-611972-66-5 /
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">List Price $95.00 / MOS or SIAM Member Price $66.50 / MO15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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