Computing Methods in Optimization Problems

This volume brings together works resulting from research carried out by members of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT) and presented during meetings and workshops organized by the Group under the patronage of the Association of European Operational Research Societies in 2012 and 2013.

This book has two main objectives:
• to provide a concise introduction to nonlinear optimization methods, which can be used as a textbook at a graduate or upper undergraduate level;

Interest in constrained optimization originated with the simple linear pro­ gramming model since it was practical and perhaps the only computationally tractable model at the time. Constrained linear optimization models were soon adopted in numerous application areas and are perhaps the most widely used mathematical models in operations research and management science at the time of this writing. Modelers have, however, found the assumption of linearity to be overly restrictive in expressing the real-world phenomena and problems in economics, finance, business, communication, engineering design, computational biology, and other areas that frequently demand the use of nonlinear expressions and discrete variables in optimization models.

This book is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the International Conference on Current Problems of Applied Mathematics and Computer Systems (APAMCS-2023). The book includes research materials on mathematical problems and solutions in the field of scientific computing, artificial intelligence, data analysis and modular computing.

Solve complex optimization problems using Genetic Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, A*, and Simulated Annealing in Python