Description
Instructor(s)/Supervisor(s)/Coordinator(s): Kwok Yee Michael WONG, Tian Wen CHENThis course will introduce the concepts and techniques of optimization and modeling in systems and applications with many variables and constraints. Topics to be discussed include pivot tables, linear programming, network flow models, project management, support vector algorithms, kernel methods, convex sets, duality, Lagrange multipliers, 1-D optimization algorithms, unconstrained optimization, guided random search methods, and constrained optimization.