TY - BOOK ID - 77942591 TI - Combinatorial and global optimization AU - Pardalos, P M AU - Migdalas, Athanasios AU - Burkard, Rainer E PY - 2002 SN - 9812778217 9789812778215 9789810248024 9810248024 9810248024 PB - River Edge, NJ World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Combinatorial optimization KW - Mathematical optimization KW - Nonlinear programming KW - Programming (Mathematics) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77942591 AB - Combinatorial and global optimization problems appear in a wide range of applications in operations research, engineering, biological science, and computer science. In combinatorial optimization and graph theory, many approaches have been developed that link the discrete universe to the continuous universe through geometric, analytic, and algebraic techniques. Such techniques include global optimization formulations, semidefinite programming, and spectral theory. Recent major successes based on these approaches include interior point algorithms for linear and discrete problems, the celebrated ER -