Optimization and Related Topics

The book, comprised predominantly of survey chapters, is a collection of recent results in various fields of theoretical and applied optimization and related topics. It contains survey papers on second order nonsmooth analysis, based on subjects, multiplicative programs and c-programming, optimal algorithms in emergent computation, the extremal principle and its applications, turnpike property for variational problems, asymptotic behavior of random infinite products of some operators, inequalities for Riemann-Stieltjes integral. Other topics covered include nonsmooth analysis and analysis of linear operators and set-valued mappings, numerical methods and generalized penalty functions, applied optimal control problems and Markov decision processes, optimal estimation of signal parameters and the problem of maximal time congestion. Audience: Specialists in optimization, mathematical programming, convex analysis, nonsmoooth analysis, engineers using mathematical tools and optimization technique, specialists in mathematical modeling.Rubinov, Aleksandr Moiseevich is the author of 'Optimization and Related Topics' with ISBN 9780792367321 and ISBN 0792367324.