Optimization

About this book

"Optimization: Foundations and Applications presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Ronald E. Miller provides detailed coverage of both classical, calculus-based approaches and newer, computer-based iterative methods."--BOOK JACKET. "With special emphasis on questions most frequently asked by those encountering this material for the first time, Optimization: Foundations and Applications is an extremely useful resource for professionals in such areas as mathematics, engineering, economics and business, regional science, geography, sociology, political science, management and decision sciences, public policy analysis, and numerous other social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.