Practical Bilevel Optimization: Algorithms and Applications

By Jonathan F. Bard

Book Overview

The use of optimization techniques has become integral to the design and analysis of most industrial and socio-economic systems. Great strides have been made recently in the solution of large-scale problems arising in such areas as production planning, airline scheduling, government regulation, and engineering design, to name a few. Analysts have found, however, that standard mathematical programming models are often inadequate in these situations because more than a single objective function and a single decision maker are involved. Multiple objective programming deals with the extension of optimization techniques to account for several objective functions, while game theory deals with the inter-personal dynamics surrounding conflict. Bilevel programming, the focus of this book, is in a narrow sense the combination of the two. It addresses the problern in which two decision makers, each with their individual objectives, act and react in a noncooperative, sequential manner. The actions of one affect the choices and payoffs available to the other but neither player can completely dominate the other in the traditional sense.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441948074
• ISBN13: 9781441948076
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

this is how a book on programming should be written

In my opinion, this is how every book that attempts to teach computer programming should be written. Most books on programming tend to teach bits and pieces that leave the reader hanging in mid-air. You learn the "alphabets" and the "parts of speech" of a programming language, but you are not taught how to put it all together into a beautiful prose, right? Not this book. "Beginning VB 6 AppDev" takes you, as it were, by the...

Deserves more than 5 stars

The target audience for this book is someone with some VB/VBA/VBScript experience who is looking to expand into serious VB development, and has possihly been put off by more advanced and detail oriented books. The writing style is casual but not cute. Concepts are presented first from a big picture view followed by more detailed explanations and code. A single main project is woven through the book with numerous additional...

Another excellent Wrox book!

A book like this has been needed for a long time. It will be a big help for any beginning Visual Basic programmer who wants to start designing large distributed programs; maybe someone who knows how to program but is working on a big project for the first time.The examples are all very well put together, and the explanations are all very clear. As a professional programmer, I own a few Wrox books, all very good, and this...

Excellent next step!

If you already have some VB programming experience or have at least read a beginner Visual Basic book, then "Beginning Visual Basic 6 Application Development" is an excellent next step. This book will help you make the transition from smaller apps to much larger real world business applications. It does this with the help of a sample projects which demonstrates how to implement and deploy a fully functional application...

Brian

This book is aimed towards the Visual Basic Developer who has a handle on the langauge itself and now would like to advance thier knowledge and see how to use VB in the large scales solutions approach. This book holds some great material showing you how to complete the end result using a step by step approach.An online banking system is just one of the topics and through this process everything is broken down very nicely...