Books

Author(s)	Book
T.F. Edgar, D.M. Himmelblau, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas	Optimization of Chemical Processes McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, (pp.xvii+652), 1988 ISBN 0-07-018991-9 Contents Preface Part I. Problem Formulation 1. The Nature and Organization of Optimization Problems 2. Fitting Models to Data 3. Formulation of Objective Functions Part II. Optimization Theory and Methods 4. Basic Concepts of Optimization 5. Optimization of Unconstrained Functions: One-Dimensional Search 6. Unconstrained Multivariable Optimization 7. Linear Programming and Applications 8. Nonlinear Programming with Constraints 9. Optimization with Staged and Discrete Processes Part III. Applications of Optimization 10. Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation 11. Separation Processes 12. Fluid Flow Systems 13. Chemical Reactor Design and Operation 14. Optimization in Large-Scale Plant Design and Operation Appendix A. Nomenclature Appendix B. Mathematical Summary Appendix C. Range Space and Null Space and Relation to Reduced Gradient and Projection Methods Name Index, Subject Index
Andrew Eberhard Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Robin Hill Royal Melbourne Institute, Australia Daniel Ralph University of Melbourne, Australia Barney M Glover Curtin University of Technology, Australia	Progress in Optimization Contributions from Australasia Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5733-7 June 1999, 324 pp. NLG 250.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 88.00 Contents and Contributors List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Editors. Part I: Non-Smooth Analysis. 1. A survey of Clarke's subdifferential and the differentiability of locally Lipschitz functions; J.R. Giles. 2. Continuous approximation of nonsmooth mappings; A.M. Rubinov, A. Zaffaroni. Part II: Generalized Convexity. 3. Generalised convexity properties of marginal functions; M. Andramonov, A. Ellero. 4. Fractional programming with invexity; B.D. Craven, B. Mond. 5. Supremal generators of spaces of homogeneous functions; A.M. Rubinov. 6. Higher order convexity and duality in multiobjective programming problems; J. Zhang. Part III: Algorithms for Nonsmooth Programming. 7. A survey of some nonsmooth equations and smoothing Newton methods; L. Qi, D. Sun. 8. Minimization methods for one class of nonsmooth functions and calculation of semi-equilibrium prices; A.M. Bagirov. 9. Potential reduction methods for the nonlinear complementarity problem; H. Jiang. 10. Approximations to the Clarke generalized Jacobians and nonsmooth least-squares minimization; H. Xu, et al. Part IV: Global Optimization. 11. A parametric approach to global optimization problems of a special kind; M. Andramonov. 12. A Concave composite programming perspective on DC programming; L. Churilov, M. Sniedovich. Part V: Control Methodologies. 13. A survey of the control parametrization and control parametrization enhancing methods for constrained optimal control problems; V. Rehbock, et al. 14. Multivariable controllers with time-domain inequality constraints; J.K. Vethecan, R.D. Hill.