An accessible introduction to metaheuristics and optimization, featuring powerful and modern algorithms for application across engineering and the sciences From engineering and computer science to economics and management science, optimization is...

This book endeavors to strike a balance between mathematical and numerical coverage of a wide range of mathematical methods and numerical techniques. It strives to provide an introduction, especially for undergraduates and graduates, to engineerin...

This book provides a balanced selection of both conventional optimization algorithms and modern metaheuristic methods commonly used in mathematical optimization. Conventionalalgorithms include gradient-based methods such as the steepest descent me...