Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice, Fourth Edition

Index 813

Underachievement, 766
Uniform distribution, 643
Unimodal function, 253
Union of fuzzy sets, 725
Univariate distribution, 639
Univariate method, 304, 315
Unrestricted search, 253, 254
Usable direction, 97
Usable feasible direction, 393
Utility function method, 763

V

Valuation set, 723
Variable metric method, 354, 361
Variance, 636
Variation, 669
Variational operator, 669
Vector minimization problem, 762
Vector of simplex multipliers, 180
Venn diagram, 723
Vertex, 130

W

Water resource system, 241

Water tank design, 550

Weighting function method, 764

Weights, 501

Well conditioned matrix, 306

Wood’s function, 365

Z

Zero degree of difficulty problem, 511,

525, 531

Zero-one LP problem, 608

Zero-one polynomial programming, 608

Zero-one problem, 588

Zero-one programming problems, 588,

604

Zeroth order methods, 304

Zoutendijk’s method, 381, 394

determination of step length, 398

direction finding problem, 395

termination criteria, 401