Reports on the growing application of global optimization in such areas as molecular biology, chemical equilibrium problems, medical imaging, and networks. Also discusses some recent developments in theory, algorithms, and computation. Among the specific topics are imprecise problems, a program for constrained global optimization, quadratic programming with box constraints, interval and bounding Hessians, a method for using local tuning for minimizing functions with Lipschitz derivatives, predicting molecular structure, and multidimensional optimization in reconstructing images from projections. The 20 papers are from a December 1995 workshop in Szeged, Hungary. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
In recent years global optimization has found applications in many interesting areas of science and technology including molecular biology, chemical equilibrium problems, medical imaging and networks. The collection of papers in this book indicates the diverse applicability of global optimization. Furthermore, various algorithmic, theoretical developments and computational studies are presented. Audience: All researchers and students working in mathematical programming.
