Optimization for Industrial Problems

✍ Scribed by Patrick Bangert (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Industrial optimization lies on the crossroads between mathematics, computer science, engineering and management. This book presents these fields in interdependence as a conversation between theoretical aspects of mathematics and computer science and the mathematical field of optimization theory at a practical level. The 19 case studies that were conducted by the author in real enterprises in cooperation and co-authorship with some of the leading industrial enterprises, including RWE, Vattenfall, EDF, PetroChina, Vestolit, Sasol, and Hella, illustrate the results that may be reasonably expected from an optimization project in a commercial enterprise. The book is aimed at persons working in industrial facilities as managers or engineers; it is also suitable for university students and their professors as an illustration of how the academic material may be used in real life. It will not make its reader a mathematician but it will help its reader in improving his plant.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Overview of Heuristic Optimization....Pages 1-11
Statistical Analysis in Solution Space....Pages 13-27
Project Management....Pages 29-36
Pre-processing: Cleaning up Data....Pages 37-66
Data Mining: Knowledge from Data....Pages 67-119
Modeling: Neural Networks....Pages 121-164
Optimization: Simulated Annealing....Pages 165-200
The human aspect in sustainable change and innovation....Pages 201-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-246

✦ Subjects

Optimization; Operations Research, Management Science