This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We provide an abstract principle aimed at proving that classes of optimization problems are typically well posed in the sense that the ...

An example of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is the facility location problem, in which n facilities are assigned, at minimum cost, to n sites. Between each pair of facilities, there is a ...

The NLP procedure (NonLinear Programming) offers a set of optimization techniques for minimizing or maximizing a continuous nonlinear function f(x) of n decision variables, x = (x 1, ... ,x n) T with ...

An operations research technique that solves problems in which an optimal value is sought subject to specified constraints. Mathematical programming models include linear programming, quadratic ...