A Set of Examples of Global and Discrete Optimization

A Set of Examples of Global and Discrete Optimization
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9781461546719
ISBN-13 : 1461546710
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Book Synopsis A Set of Examples of Global and Discrete Optimization by : Jonas Mockus

Download or read book A Set of Examples of Global and Discrete Optimization written by Jonas Mockus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the Bayesian Approach (BA) improves well known heuristics by randomizing and optimizing their parameters. That is the Bayesian Heuristic Approach (BHA). The ten in-depth examples are designed to teach Operations Research using Internet. Each example is a simple representation of some impor tant family of real-life problems. The accompanying software can be run by remote Internet users. The supporting web-sites include software for Java, C++, and other lan guages. A theoretical setting is described in which one can discuss a Bayesian adaptive choice of heuristics for discrete and global optimization prob lems. The techniques are evaluated in the spirit of the average rather than the worst case analysis. In this context, "heuristics" are understood to be an expert opinion defining how to solve a family of problems of dis crete or global optimization. The term "Bayesian Heuristic Approach" means that one defines a set of heuristics and fixes some prior distribu tion on the results obtained. By applying BHA one is looking for the heuristic that reduces the average deviation from the global optimum. The theoretical discussions serve as an introduction to examples that are the main part of the book. All the examples are interconnected. Dif ferent examples illustrate different points of the general subject. How ever, one can consider each example separately, too.


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