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 |
| Course Coordinator: |
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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.
