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Mathematical optimization encompasses both a rich and rapidly evolving body of fundamental theory, and a variety of exciting applications in science and engineering. The present book contains a careful selection of articles on recent advances in optimization theory, numerical methods, and their applications in engineering. It features in particular new methods and applications in the fields of optimal control, PDE-constrained optimization, nonlinear optimization, and convex optimization. The authors of this volume took part in the 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization (BFG09) organized in Leuven, Belgium, on September 14-18, 2009. The volume contains a selection of reviewed articles contributed by the conference speakers as well as three survey articles by plenary speakers and two papers authored by the winners of the best talk and best poster prizes awarded at BFG09. Researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics, computer science, and many branches of engineering will find in this book an interesting and useful collection of recent ideas on the methods and applications of optimization.

Mathematical optimization --- Optimalisation mathématique --- Wiskundige optimisatie --- Engineering. --- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Optimization. --- Control. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Mechanics, applied. --- Ingénierie --- Optimisation mathématique --- Mathématiques de l'ingénieur --- Engineering --- Engineering mathematics --- Mechanics, Applied --- 519.8 --- 681.3*G16 --- Operational research --- Optimization: constrained optimization; gradient methods; integer programming; least squares methods; linear programming; nonlinear programming (Numericalanalysis) --- 681.3*G16 Optimization: constrained optimization; gradient methods; integer programming; least squares methods; linear programming; nonlinear programming (Numericalanalysis) --- 519.8 Operational research --- Mathematical models

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Splines, both interpolatory and smoothing, have a long and rich history that has largely been application driven. This book unifies these constructions in a comprehensive and accessible way, drawing from the latest methods and applications to show how they arise naturally in the theory of linear control systems. Magnus Egerstedt and Clyde Martin are leading innovators in the use of control theoretic splines to bring together many diverse applications within a common framework. In this book, they begin with a series of problems ranging from path planning to statistics to approximation. Using the tools of optimization over vector spaces, Egerstedt and Martin demonstrate how all of these problems are part of the same general mathematical framework, and how they are all, to a certain degree, a consequence of the optimization problem of finding the shortest distance from a point to an affine subspace in a Hilbert space. They cover periodic splines, monotone splines, and splines with inequality constraints, and explain how any finite number of linear constraints can be added. This book reveals how the many natural connections between control theory, numerical analysis, and statistics can be used to generate powerful mathematical and analytical tools. This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in control theory, robotics, engineering, computer graphics, econometrics, and any area that requires the construction of curves based on sets of raw data.

Interpolation. --- Smoothing (Numerical analysis) --- Smoothing (Statistics) --- Curve fitting. --- Splines. --- Spline theory. --- Spline functions --- Approximation theory --- Interpolation --- Joints (Engineering) --- Mechanical movements --- Harmonic drives --- Fitting, Curve --- Numerical analysis --- Least squares --- Statistics --- Curve fitting --- Graduation (Statistics) --- Roundoff errors --- Graphic methods --- Accuracy and precision. --- Affine space. --- Affine variety. --- Algorithm. --- Approximation. --- Arbitrarily large. --- B-spline. --- Banach space. --- Bernstein polynomial. --- Bifurcation theory. --- Big O notation. --- Birkhoff interpolation. --- Boundary value problem. --- Bézier curve. --- Chaos theory. --- Computation. --- Computational problem. --- Condition number. --- Constrained optimization. --- Continuous function (set theory). --- Continuous function. --- Control function (econometrics). --- Control theory. --- Controllability. --- Convex optimization. --- Convolution. --- Cubic Hermite spline. --- Data set. --- Derivative. --- Differentiable function. --- Differential equation. --- Dimension (vector space). --- Directional derivative. --- Discrete mathematics. --- Dynamic programming. --- Equation. --- Estimation. --- Filtering problem (stochastic processes). --- Gaussian quadrature. --- Gradient descent. --- Gramian matrix. --- Growth curve (statistics). --- Hermite interpolation. --- Hermite polynomials. --- Hilbert projection theorem. --- Hilbert space. --- Initial condition. --- Initial value problem. --- Integral equation. --- Iterative method. --- Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions. --- Kernel method. --- Lagrange polynomial. --- Law of large numbers. --- Least squares. --- Linear algebra. --- Linear combination. --- Linear filter. --- Linear map. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Mathematics. --- Maxima and minima. --- Monotonic function. --- Nonlinear programming. --- Nonlinear system. --- Normal distribution. --- Numerical analysis. --- Numerical stability. --- Optimal control. --- Optimization problem. --- Ordinary differential equation. --- Orthogonal polynomials. --- Parameter. --- Piecewise. --- Pointwise. --- Polynomial interpolation. --- Polynomial. --- Probability distribution. --- Quadratic programming. --- Random variable. --- Rate of convergence. --- Ratio test. --- Riccati equation. --- Simpson's rule. --- Simultaneous equations. --- Smoothing spline. --- Smoothing. --- Smoothness. --- Special case. --- Spline (mathematics). --- Spline interpolation. --- Statistic. --- Stochastic calculus. --- Stochastic. --- Telemetry. --- Theorem. --- Trapezoidal rule. --- Waypoint. --- Weight function. --- Without loss of generality.