An Introduction to Optimization, 3rd Edition

An Introduction to Optimization, Third Edition helps students build a solid working knowledge of the field, including unconstrained optimization, linear programming, and constrained optimization. The book is supplemented with numerous illustrations, an extensive bibliography, mathematical discussion at a level accessible to MBA and business students, a treatment of both linear and nonlinear programming, an introduction to recent developments such as neural networks and genetic algorithms, a chapter on the use of descent algorithms, and MATLAB exercises and examples.