Models and Algorithms for Global Optimization: Essays Dedicated to Antanas Zilinskas on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday Book

Advanced Models in Optimization Theory
Multiobjective Programming Problems Under Generalized Convexity   Altannar Chinchuluun   Panos M. Pardalos     3
Towards Optimal Techniques for Solving Global Optimization Problems: Symmetry-Based Approach   Christodoulos A. Floudas   Vladik Kreinovich     21
Interval Algorithms
Non-linear Global Optimization Using Interval Arithmetic and Constraint Propagation   Steffen Kjoller   Pavel Kozine   Kaj Madsen   Ole Stauning     45
Towards Optimal Compression of Meteorological Data: A Case Study of Using Interval-Motivated Overestimators in Global Optimization   Olga Kosheleva     59
An Interval Partitioning Approach for Continuous Constrained Optimization   Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu   Linet Ozdamar   Tibor Csendes     73
A Survey of Methods for the Estimation Ranges of Functions Using Interval Arithmetic   Julius Zilinskas   Ian David Lockhart Bogle     97
Deterministic Optimization Models and Algorithms
Pseudo-Boolean Optimization in Case of an Unconnected Feasible Set   Alexander Antamoshkin   Igor Masich     111
Univariate Algorithms for Solving Global Optimization Problems with Multiextremal Non-differentiable Constraints   Yaroslav D. Sergeyev   Falah M.H. Khalaf   Dmitri E. Kvasov     123
Packing up to 200 Equal Circles in a Square   Peter Gabor Szabo   Eckard Specht     141
Global Optimization of Network Length and Simulation of Film Evolution   Vydunas Saltenis     157
Stochastic Algorithms
A Probabilistic Hybrid Differential Evolution Algorithm   Montaz M. Ali     173
Nonadaptive Univariate Optimization for Observations with Noise   James M. Calvin     185
Estimating the Minimal Value of a Function in Global Random Search: Comparison of Estimation Procedures   Emily Hamilton   Vippal Savani   Anatoly Zhigljavsky     193
Multi-particle Simulated Annealing   Orcun Molvalioglu   Zelda B. Zabinsky   Wolf Kohn     215
Educational Aspects
On the Goodness of Global Optimisation Algorithms, an Introduction into Investigating Algorithms   Eligius M. T. Hendrix     225
Experimental Investigation of Distance Graduate Studies of the Open Source Environment by Models of Optimal Sequential Decisions and the Bayesian Approach   Jonas Mockus     249
Applications
The Problem of Visual Analysis of Multidimensional Medical Data   Jolita Bernataviciene   Gintautas Dzemyda   Olga Kurasova   Virginijus Marcinkevicius   Viktor Medvedev      277
On Global Minimization in Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Applications   Raimondas Ciegis     299
A Two Step Hybrid Optimization Procedure for the Design of Optimal Water Distribution Networks   Eric S. Fraga   Lazaros G. Papageorgiou     311
Predictor-Based Self Tuning Control with Constraints   Vytautas Kaminskas     333
A Template-Based Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Sequence Alignment Model   Scott R. McAllister   Rohit Rajgaria   Christodoulos A. Floudas     343
Index     361