Global Optimization Using Interval Analysis: Revised And Expanded (Pure and Applied Mathematics (M. Dekker))

Employing a closed set-theoretic foundation for interval computations, Global Optimization Using Interval Analysis simplifies algorithm construction and increases generality of interval arithmetic. This Second Edition contains an up-to-date discussion of interval methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations and global optimization problems. It expands and improves various aspects of its forerunner and features significant new discussions, such as those on the use of consistency methods to enhance algorithm performance.

Eldon Hansen, Consultant, Los Altos, California. G. William Walster, Sun Microsystems Laboratories , Mountain View, California, U.S.A.