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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Methods of Optimization

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 470-8742/05
Abbreviation MONT
Course title Methods of Optimization
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Dostál, DSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
An introduction to the calculus of variations. Linear spaces, funkcionls and their differentials (Fréchet, Gateaux).
Euler equation and the solution of the classical problems of variational calculus.

Unconstrained minimization. One-dimensional minimization of unimodular functions.
Conditions of minimum, the Newton method and its modification. Gradient methods, method of conjugate gradients.
Constrained minimization. Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions of optimality.
Penalization and barrier methods for constrained minimization. Feasible direction method (SLP) and active set strategy for bound constrained problems.
Duality in convex programming. Saddle points, Uzawa algorithm and augmented Lagrangians.
Linear programming, simplex method.
Non-smooth optimization, subgradients and optimality conditions.
Global optimization, genetic and evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search.

Software.

Exercises:
Introduction to the MATLAB programming.
Implementation of the golden section and Fibonacci series methods.
Implemenation of the Newton-like methods.
Implementation of the gradient based method.
Implementation of the conjugate gradient method.
Implementation of the penalty methody for equality constrained minimization.

Literature

BERTSEKAS, Dimitri P. Nonlinear Programming. 3rd edition. Athena Scientific, 2016. ISBN 978-1886529052.

Advised literature

NOCEDAL, Jorge a Stephen WRIGHT. Numerical Optimization. 2nd edition. Springer, 2006. ISBN 978-0387303031.