Subject: Edited Volume: HANDBOOK on SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING

Edited Volume: HANDBOOK on SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING
Henry Wolkowicz, Romesh Saigal, Lieven Vandenberghe (editors)
Kluwer Series:
INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Frederick S. Hillier
Volume: 27
ISBN: 07923-7771-0 


Publication date: Feb. 25,  2000, xxvi+654 pages, hardcover 
Price: $185 

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
Semidefinite programming (SDP) has been one of the most exciting and
active research areas in optimization during the 1990's.  It has
attracted researchers with very diverse backgrounds, including experts
in
convex programming, linear algebra, numerical optimization,
combinatorial
optimization, control theory, and statistics.
This tremendous research activity
was spurred by the discovery of important applications in
combinatorial optimization and control theory, the development
of efficient interior-point algorithms for solving
SDP problems, and the depth and elegance of the underlying
optimization theory.

The HANDBOOK OF SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING offers an advanced and 
broad overview of the current state of the field,  It contains 
nineteen chapters written by the leading experts on the subject.  
The chapters are organized in three parts: Theory, Algorithms, and 
Applications  and Extensions.


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CONTRIBUTION AUTHORS:
Abdo Alfakih, Farid Alizadeh, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Dimitris Bertsimas,
Aharon Ben-Tal, Etienne de Klerk, Laurent El Ghaoui, Valerii Fedorov,
Michel Goemans, Christoph Helmberg, Florian Jarre, Serge Kruk,
Jon Lee, Zhiquan Luo, Renato Monteiro, Yurii Nesterov, Arkadi Nemirovski,
Francois Oustry, Gabor Pataki, Franz Rendl, Kees Roos, Romesh Saigal,
Katya Scheinberg, Stefan Schmieta, Jay Sethuraman, Alexander Shapiro,
Jos Sturm, Tam\'as Terlaky, Michael J. Todd, Levent Tuncel, Lieven Vandenberghe,
Fan Wang, Henry Wolkowicz, Yinyu Ye