Mittal Institute of Technology & Science

Department of Management

Optimization Techniques

http://web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/net.html   Linear Network Optimization, MIT [Electrical Engineering]

Text Books:

1. Numerical optimization By Jorge Nocedal, Stephen J. Wright

2. Convex optimization By Stephen P. Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe

3. Convex analysis By R. Tyrrell Rockafellar [Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics]

4. Variational analysis By R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Roger J.-B. Wets

5. Techniques of variational analysis By Jonathan M. Borwein, Qiji Jim Zhu [CMS Books in Mathematics]

6. Nonlinear programming: theory and algorithms By M. S. Bazaraa, Hanif D. Sherali, C. M. Shetty

7. Linear and nonlinear programming By David G. Luenberger, Yinyu Ye

8. Global optimization: deterministic approaches By Reiner Horst, Tuy Hoang

9. Introduction to global optimization By Reiner Horst, Panos M. Pardalos, Nguyen V. Thoai

10. Numerical optimization By Jorge Nocedal, Stephen J. Wright

11. New optimization techniques in engineering By Godfrey C. Onwubolu, B. V. Babu

12. Emerging optimization techniques in production planning and control by Godfrey C. Onwubolu

13. Manufacturing planning and control systems for supply chain management by Thomas E. Vollmann, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark

14. Swarm intelligence By James Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi

15. Ant colony optimization By Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle: MIT

16. Ant algorithms: third international workshop, ANTS 2002 ..., Issue 2463 By Marco Dorigo, Gianni Di Caro, Michael Sampels

17. Evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization: 4th European ... By Jens Gottlieb, Günther Raidl

18. Evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization: 5th European ... By Jens Gottlieb, Günther Raidl

19. Metaheuristics for hard optimization: methods and case studies By Johann Dréo

 

 

Video Lectures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLq1hEq3UY   Convex Optimization (Stanford)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E&feature=channel   Machine Learning (Stanford)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMDCCdjyW8&feature=channel   Programming Methodology (Stanford)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0&feature=related  Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (Stanford)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAurgxtOdxY&feature=channel   Modern Physics: Special Theory of Relativity (Stanford)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyX8kQ-JzHI&feature=channel   Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNm7L96pfY&feature=channel  The Fourier Transform (Stanford)

Online Text and references:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_(mathematics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_mathematics

http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/glopt/techniques.html  Global Optimization techniques

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