Principles of Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation

Preface Notation List of symbols 1. Optimization models 2. Model construction 3. Model boundedness 4. Interior optima 5. Boundary optima 6. Parametric and discrete optima 7. Local computation 8. Principles and practice References Author index Subject index.

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