Mathematical Optimization Techniques / Richard Bellman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellman, Richard, Contributor.

Bellman, Richard, Editor.

Breakwell, J. V., Contributor.

Dergarabedian, P., Contributor.

Derman, C., Contributor.

Dreyfus, Stuart E., Contributor.

Elfving, G., Contributor.

Jackson Hall, William, Contributor.

Kailath, Thomas, Contributor.

Kalman, R. E., Contributor.

Kruskal, Joseph B., Contributor.

LaSalle, J. P., Contributor.

Middleton, David, Contributor.

Miele, Angelo, Contributor.

Parzen, Emanuel, Contributor.

Prager, William, Contributor.

Ten Dyke, R. P., Contributor.

Tucker, A. W., Contributor.

Wolfe, P., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical optimization.

Programming (Mathematics).

Systems engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: AIRCRAFT, ROCKETS, AND GUIDANCE

1. A Survey of the Problem of Optimizing Flight Paths of Aircraft and Missiles

2. Estimating Performance Capabilities of Boost Rockets

3. The Optimum Spacing of Corrective Thrusts in Interplanetary Navigation

4. The Analysis and Solution of Optimum Trajectory Problems

PART TWO: COMMUNICATION, PREDICTION, AND DECISION

5. A New Approach to the Synthesis of Optimal Smoothing and Prediction Systems

6. Adaptive Matched Filters

7. Optimization Problems in Statistical Communication Theory

8. Estimators with Minimum Bias

9. On Optimal Replacement Rules When Changes of State Are Markovian

PART THREE: PROGRAMMING, COMBINATORICS, AND DESIGN

10. Simplex Method and Theory

11. The Present Status of Nonlinear Programming

12. The Number of Simplices in a Complex

13. Optimization in Structural Design

14. Geometrie and Game-Theoretic Methods in Experimental Design

PART FOUR: MODELS, AUTOMATION, AND CONTROL

15. Automation and Control in the Soviet Union

16. The Theory of Optimal Control and the Calculus of Variations

17. Mathematical Model Making as an Adaptive Process

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-31987-7

OCLC:

1243311674