- Revised and expanded edition of successful reference work published by
Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2001
- Comprehensive reference work for a growing field of crucial importance to
researchers in a variety of subject areas, including industrial engineering, operations
research and mathematics
- Features enhanced online content, up-to-date cross references, and entries
keyed to MSC subject codes
- Contributors are leading experts in the field
The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a
complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the
breadth of applications that has come from this field.
In 2000, the first edition was widely acclaimed and received high praise. J.B.
Rosen crowned it "an indispensable resource" and Dingzhu Du lauded it as
"the standard most important reference in this very dynamic research field". Top
authors such as Herbert Hauptman (winner of the Nobel Prize) and Leonid Khachiyan (the
Ellipsoid theorist) contributed and the second edition keeps these seminal entries.
The second edition builds on the success of the former edition with more than
150 completely new entries, designed to ensure that the reference addresses recent areas
where optimization theories and techniques have advanced. Particularly heavy attention
resulted in health science and transportation, with entries such as "Algorithms for
Genomics", "Optimization and Radiotherapy Treatment Design", and "Crew
Scheduling".
4626 pages. 613 illus. In 7 volumes, not available separately., Hardcover