Activity 2.4*† – Analyzing Cubic Functions
... FOR DISCUSSION: Informally, what is a continuous function? A differentiable function? Explain what extrema and saddle points are and how to find them. What property does a cubic graph have that a quadratic graph does not? ______________________________________________________________________________ ...
... FOR DISCUSSION: Informally, what is a continuous function? A differentiable function? Explain what extrema and saddle points are and how to find them. What property does a cubic graph have that a quadratic graph does not? ______________________________________________________________________________ ...
Linear Programming (Optimization)
... path formulation has smaller number of constraints, but enormous number of variables. can be solved easily by column generation technique (later). Integer version is more difficult to solve. Extensions: Network design - also determine the number and type of facilities to be installed on the lin ...
... path formulation has smaller number of constraints, but enormous number of variables. can be solved easily by column generation technique (later). Integer version is more difficult to solve. Extensions: Network design - also determine the number and type of facilities to be installed on the lin ...
Mathematical optimization
In mathematics, computer science and operations research, mathematical optimization (alternatively, optimization or mathematical programming) is the selection of a best element (with regard to some criteria) from some set of available alternatives.In the simplest case, an optimization problem consists of maximizing or minimizing a real function by systematically choosing input values from within an allowed set and computing the value of the function. The generalization of optimization theory and techniques to other formulations comprises a large area of applied mathematics. More generally, optimization includes finding ""best available"" values of some objective function given a defined domain (or a set of constraints), including a variety of different types of objective functions and different types of domains.