This textbook covers the fundamentals of optimization, including linear,
mixed-integer linear, nonlinear, and dynamic optimization techniques,
with a clear engineering focus. It carefully describes classical
optimization models and algorithms using an engineering problem-solving
perspective, and emphasizes modeling issues using many real-world
examples related to a variety of application areas. Providing an
appropriate blend of practical applications and optimization theory
makes the text useful to both practitioners and students, and gives the
reader a good sense of the power of optimization and the potential
difficulties in applying optimization to modeling real-world systems.
The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate-level teaching in
industrial engineering and other engineering specialties. It is also of
use to industry practitioners, due to the inclusion of real-world
applications, opening the door to advanced courses on both modeling and
algorithm development within the industrial engineering and operations
research fields.