Reading Material

 

The following books are being put on reserve in the Engineering Library:

 

• Global optimization: scientific and engineering case studies
  Janos Pinter

 

• Stochastic adaptive search for global optimization

Zelda Zabinsky

 

• Introduction to global optimization

Horst, Pardalos and Thoai

 

• Optimization in operations research

Ronald Rardin

 

• Handbook of metaheuristics

Glover and Kochenberger

 

Articles

 

The following articles and chapters may be of interest:

 

• Chapter 5 on Model Formulation from Approximate Dynamic Programming by Warren Powell

 

• Vanderplaats, G. N. (1993). Thirty years of modern structural optimization. ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE. 16 (2), 81

 

• Chapter 1 for an introduction from Stochastic Adaptive Search for Global Optimization by Zelda Zabinsky

 

• Draft article on Random Search Algorithms by Zelda Zabinsky