Background
Pardalos, Panos Miltiades was born on June 17, 1954 in Drossato, Karditsa, Greece. Came to the United States, 1977. Son of Miltiades H. and Calypso P. (Chichirigou) Pardalos.
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Significant research activity has occurred in the area of global optimization in recent years. Many new theoretical, algorithmic, and computational contributions have resulted. Despite the major importance of test problems for researchers, there has been a lack of representative nonconvex test problems for constrained global optimization algorithms. This book is motivated by the scarcity of global optimization test problems and represents the first systematic collection of test problems for evaluating and testing constrained global optimization algorithms. This collection includes problems arising in a variety of engineering applications, and test problems from published computational reports.
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Global optimization is concerned with the characterization and computation of global minima or maxima of nonlinear functions. Such problems are widespread in mathematical modeling of real world systems for a very broad range of applications. The applications include economies of scale, fixed charges, allocation and location problems, quadratic assignment and a number of other combinatorial optimization problems. More recently it has been shown that certain aspects of VLSI chip design and database problems can be formulated as constrained global optimization problems with a quadratic objective function. Although standard nonlinear programming algorithms will usually obtain a local minimum to the problem , such a local minimum will only be global when certain conditions are satisfied (such as f and K being convex).
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Pardalos, Panos Miltiades was born on June 17, 1954 in Drossato, Karditsa, Greece. Came to the United States, 1977. Son of Miltiades H. and Calypso P. (Chichirigou) Pardalos.
Bachelor of Science, University Athens, Greece, 1977. Master of Science, Clarkson College, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1985.
Assistant professor Pennsylvania State University, State College, since 1985.
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Member Mathematics Programming Society, American Mathematics Society, Association for Computing Machinery, Operation Research Society, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics.