MEG 727

Engineering Optimization

q Overview

q Syllabus

q Resources:

· NEOS Guide Optimization Tree : A Useful Site with Several Optimization Tools

· Mathtools.net: A Site with Many Handy Computational Links (Choose Matlab then Optimization)

· Linear programming course: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/ee236a/
Linear programming book including interactive tutorials, solving and graphing tools: http://people.hofstra.edu/Stefan_Waner/Realworld/Summary4.html

· Matlab Optimization Toolbox:

1. Find minimum of single-variable function on fixed interval (fminbnd)

2. Unconstrained Optimization of a Nonlinear Function (fminsearch)

3. Linear Programming (linprog)

4. Constrained Optimization of a Nonlinear Function (fmincon)

Contour Plot of Beale's Function

Finding the Minimum of Beale’s Function Using the Fuzzy Simplex Algorithm (Abstract)

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