Problem definition: Assortment selection is one of the most important decisions faced by retailers. Most existing papers in the literature assume that customers select at most one item out of the ...

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When model-based multivariable control made its debut in the 1980s, it was expected that process models, once acquired through a plant step test, would be durable and long lived. However, this ...

Description: Basics of numerical optimization: problem formulation, conditions of optimality, search direction and step length. Calculus-based techniques for univariate and multivariate optimization.