Quadratic Assignment Problems model many applications in diverse areas such as
operations research, parallel and distributed computing, and combinatorial data analysis. In …

" The art of structure is where to put the holes" Robert Le Ricolais, 1894-1977 This is a
completely revised, updated and expanded version of the book titled" Optimization of …

The basic topic of this book is solving problems from system and control theory using convex
optimization. We show that a wide variety of problems arising in system and control theory …

The purpose of this book is to present the general theory of interior-point polynomial-time
methods for convex programming. Since the publication of Karmarkar's famous paper in …

In semidefinite programming, one minimizes a linear function subject to the constraint that
an affine combination of symmetric matrices is positive semidefinite. Such a constraint is …

We consider the problem of finding a linear iteration that yields distributed averaging
consensus over a network, ie, that asymptotically computes the average of some initial …

Motivated by applications to sensor, peer-to-peer, and ad hoc networks, we study distributed
algorithms, also known as gossip algorithms, for exchanging information and for computing …

In the last decades the subject of nonsmooth analysis has grown rapidly due to the
recognition that nondifferentiable phenomena are more widespread, and play a more …

This work is an attempt to provide a unified presentation of methods for the optimal design of
topology, shape and material for continuum and discrete structures. The emphasis is on …

A tutorial introduction to the complex structured singular value (μ) is presented, with an
emphasis on the mathematical aspects of μ. The μ-based methods discussed here have …