optimization -- Optimization techniques : approximation methods -- Linear programming -- Integer programming

Optimization to Portfolio Analysis -- Optimization Techniques in Medicine -- Global Optimization in Geometry

solution of such models requires appropriate techniques to compute so called efficient, or Pareto optimal

hyperplanes, to describe non-convex regions efficiently. Mixed-integer programming techniques are then applied

problems using the following: unconstrained, constrained, gradient, and nongradient techniques; duality

Classical Techniques -- Integer Programming -- Genetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming -- Tabu

programming, and constraint programming for combinatorial optimization purposes. The chapters that follow

for graduate students, researchers, and applied mathematicians who wish to use nonsmooth techniques

otherwise be simply a collection of techniques and results, and this is valuable both as a means for

Black-Scholes model -- Numerical Techniques in Relaxed Optimization Problems -- Combining Model and Test Data

including reduced-gradients, penalty and barrier methods, sequential quadratic programming, and interior

-- Applications of Integer Programming to Financial Optimization -- Computing Mean/Downside Risk Frontiers: The