Academic Catalog

EE553 OPTIMIZATION

Course Code:	5670553
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Assist.Prof.Dr SERKAN SARITAÞ
Offered Semester:	Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Mathematical preliminaries on functions of several variables. Convexity and convex functions. Unconstrained minimization problems. Computational algorithms such as steepest descent, Newton and quasi-Newton methods. Constrained minimization problems and Kuhn-Tucker theory. Fundamental theorems of linear optimization and the simplexs algorithm.