Keywords: Mathematical Programming and Optimization Numerics and Computation Operations Research/Management Science Software Engineering Rigorous Global Search: Continuous Problems by R. Baker Kearfott University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, USA NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS VOLUME 13 The book provides a self-contained introduction to underlying techniques, as well as a compendium of theory and a guide to the author's Fortran 90 software for nonlinear algebraic systems and global, constrained optimization with automatic result verification. Besides introductory and survey material, the book contains unique research results. The book also contains non-traditional ideas concerning non-smooth optimization. Thus, the book should be a valuable reference to applied mathematicians and computational scientists and engineers. With numerous examples and exercises, as well as leads for future research, the book can be used as a graduate text or reference on interval arithmetic, automatic differentiation and interval fixed point theory. The book can also serve as a user's guide for the nonlinear equations and optimization software, available free of charge from the author, for the author's general Fortran 90 interval arithmetic package, or for the associated automatic differentiation package. Audience: Researchers in operations research, numerical analysis, computational chemistry, computer-aided geometric design and computational geometry, robot kinematics, remote sensing. Also suitable for graduate and topics courses in numerical analysis, optimization, and operations research. Contents: List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Software Environments. 3. On Preconditioning. 4. Verified Solution of Nonlinear Systems. 5. Optimization. 6. Non-Differentiable Problems. 7. Use of Intermediate Quantities in the Expression Values. References. Index. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Date of publication: October 1996 280 pp. Hardbound ISBN: 0-7923-4238-0 Prices: NLG: 205.00 USD: 134.00 GBP: 90.00 Five or more copies for classroom use --- USD: 60. ============================================================================= ORDER FORM Author: R. Baker Kearfott Title: Rigorous Global Search: Continuous Problems ( ) Hardbound / ISBN: 0-7923-4238-0 NLG: 205.00 USD: 134.00 GBP: 90.00 Ref: KAPIS ( ) Payment enclosed to the amount of ___________________________ ( ) Please send invoice ( ) Please charge my credit card account: Card no.: |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Expiry date: ______________ () Access () American Express () Mastercard () Diners Club () Eurocard () Visa Name of Card holder: ___________________________________________________ Delivery address: Title : ___________________________ Initials: _______________M/F______ First name : ______________________ Surname: ______________________________ Organization: ______________________________________________________________ Department : ______________________________________________________________ Address : ______________________________________________________________ Postal Code : ___________________ City: ____________________________________ Country : _____________________________Telephone: ______________________ Email : ______________________________________________________________ Date : _____________________ Signature: _____________________________ Our European VAT registration number is: |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| To be sent to: For customers in Mexico, USA, Canada Rest of the world: and Latin America: Kluwer Academic Publishers Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Order Department Order Department P.O. Box 358 P.O. Box 322 Accord Station 3300 AH Dordrecht Hingham, MA 02018-0358 The Netherlands U.S.A. Tel : 617 871 6600 Tel : +31 78 6392392 Fax : 617 871 6528 Fax : +31 78 6546474 Email : kluwer@wkap.com Email : services@wkap.nl For Looseleaf Publications on Law: Libresso Distribution Centre P.O. Box 23 7400 GA Deventer The Netherlands Tel : +31 5706 33155 Fax : +31 5706 33834 Payment will be accepted in any convertible currency. Please check the rate of exchange with your bank. Prices are subject to change without notice. All prices are exclusive of Value Added Tax (VAT). Customers in the Netherlands please add 6% VAT. Customers from other countries in the European Community: * please fill in the VAT number of your institute/company in the appropriate space on the orderform: or * please add 6% VAT to the total order amount (customers from the U.K. are not charged VAT). ============================================================================= :Kearfott, R. Baker; Rigorous Global Search: Continuous Problems Rigorous Global Search: Continuous Problems R. Baker Kearfott NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS 13 NOIA Mathematical Programming and Optimization Numerics and Computation Operations Research/Management Science Software Engineering October 1996 .