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Modern Optimization Modelling Techniques

Birkhäuser
  • Most of the material covered in the book concerns results that so far were only available as articles in specialized journals
  • Provides a comprehensive overview of the recent developments and makes them accessible to a wider audience, including graduate students and researchers interested in the broad field of optimization
  • Applications of much practical relevance to illustrate the theory
  • Numerous results and examples highlight the close connection of optimization theory with other related fields such as dynamical systems, equilibrium theory, stochastic modeling, game theory, etc.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona (ACMBIRK)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Moments and Positive Polynomials for Optimization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5
    2. Chapter 1 Representation of Positive Polynomials

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 7-27
    3. Chapter 2 Moments

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 29-46
    4. Chapter 3 Polynomial Optimization

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 47-79
    5. Chapter 4 Convexity in Polynomial Optimization

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 81-92
    6. Chapter 5 Parametric Polynomial Optimization

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 93-120
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 121-130
  4. Computation of Generalized Nash Equilibria: Recent Advancements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-143
    2. Chapter 1 Some Telecommunication Applications

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 145-149
    3. Chapter 2 NEPs and Jointly Convex GNEPs

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 151-162
    4. Chapter 3 Jointly Convex Nash Equilibrium Problems

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 163-173
    5. Chapter 4 GNEPs with No Special Structure

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 175-188
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 189-204
  6. Equilibrium and Learning in Traffic Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-211
    2. Chapter 1 Wardrop and Stochastic User Equilibrium

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 213-220
    3. Chapter 2 Markovian Traffic Equilibrium

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 221-238
    4. Chapter 3 Adaptive Dynamics in Traffic Games

      • Roberto Cominetti, Francisco Facchinei, Jean B. Lasserre
      Pages 239-257
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 259-269

About this book

The theory of optimization, understood in a broad sense, is the basis of modern applied mathematics, covering a large spectrum of topics from theoretical considerations (structure, stability) to applied operational research and engineering applications. The compiled material of this book puts on display this versatility, by exhibiting the three parallel and complementary components of optimization: theory, algorithms, and practical problems.

The book contains an expanded version of three series of lectures delivered by the authors at the CRM in July 2009. The first part is a self-contained course on the general moment problem and its relations with semidefinite programming. The second part is dedicated to the problem of determination of Nash equilibria from an algorithmic viewpoint. The last part presents congestion models for traffic networks and develops modern optimization techniques for finding traffic equilibria based on stochastic optimization and game theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Roberto Cominetti

  • , Dept. Computer, Control, Manag. Eng., Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy

    Francisco Facchinei

  • LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Jean B. Lasserre

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