Significant research activity has occurred in the area of global optimization in recent years. Many new theoretical, algorithmic, and computational contribution

This book provides a unified and insightful treatment of deterministic global optimization. It introduces theoretical and algorithmic advances that address the

This collection of challenging and well-designed test problems arising in literature studies also contains a wide spectrum of applications, including pooling/bl

"Significant research activity has occurred in the area of global optimization in recent years. Many new theoretical, algorithmic, and computational contributio