Suggested readings
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Readings will be posted soon.
Printed material
The course material is constantly being updated from a variety of books, journal articles, newspaper articles, contributions from others to this wiki, and the author's own experiences with data analysis and consulting.
The following printed materials have influenced the course content. In alphabetical order:
| Author(s) | Title | Google search results | Amazon | Other links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgar, Himmelblau, and Lasdon | Optimization of Chemical Processes, McGraw-Hill, 2001 | Amazon | ||
| Rardin | Optimization in Operations Research, Prentice-Hall, 1998 | Amazon | ||
| Reklaitis, Ravindran, and Ragsdell | Engineering Optimization; Methods and Applications, Wiley, 1983 | Amazon | Publisher site | |
| Rao | Engineering Optimization, Theory and Practice, 3rd ed., Wiley, 1996 | Amazon | ||
| Taha | Operations Research: An Introduction, 9th ed., Prentice-Hill, 2010 | Amazon | ||
| Williams | Model Building in Mathematical Programming, 5th ed., Wiley, 2013 | Amazon | ||
| Winston | Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, Duxbury Press, 2003 | Amazon |
Online book
Some recommended free online books: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/LPbook/ http://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
Online courses
There are a wide variety of online courses that cover topics similar to this course. May I suggest you consider looking at these if you are looking for more exposure to the course material: