This book will present the papers delivered at the first U.S. conference
devoted exclusively to global optimization and will thus provide
valuable insights into the significant research on the topic that has
been emerging during recent years. Held at Princeton University in May
1991, the conference brought together an interdisciplinary group of the
most active developers of algorithms for global optimization in order to
focus the attention of the mathematical programming community on the
unsolved problems and diverse applications of this field. The main
subjects addressed at the conference were advances in deterministic and
stochastic methods for global optimization, parallel algorithms for
global optimization problems, and applications of global optimization.
Although global optimization is primarily a mathematical problem, it is
relevant to several other disciplines, including computer science,
applied mathematics, physical chemistry, molecular biology, statistics,
physics, engineering, operations research, communication theory, and
economics. Global optimization problems originate from a wide variety of
mathematical models of real-world systems. Some of its applications are
allocation and location problems and VLSI and data-base design problems.
Originally published in 1991.
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