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ION562 INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION

Course Code: 9040562
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Informatics Online
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Introduction to optimization problems. problem formulation. mathematical preliminaries. convex analysis. unconstrained minimization. one dimensional search techniques. methods of steepest descent. Newton and quasi-Newton and conjugate directions. constrained minimization and Kuhn-Tucker conditions. linear programming. penalty function method. feasible direction techniques. evolutionary optimization. genetic algorithms.