Large-Scale Optimization with Applications: Part III: Molecular Structure and Optimization (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)

ISBN 10: 1461268702 / ISBN 13: 9781461268703

Verlag: Springer, 2012

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• Titel: Large-Scale Optimization with Applications: Part III: Molecular Structure and Optimization (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)
• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1461268702
• ISBN-13: 9781461268703
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Many important molecular conformation problems, such as protein folding, are expressed as global minimization problems. It is the fact that local minimization is insufficient, that markedly differentiates this volume from the previous two. Unfortunately, global minimization problems that result from models of molecular conformation are usually intractable. For example, simple 1-dimensional versions of distance conformation problems are NP-hard. Nevertheless, there has been significant recent progress in the design of promising heuristic strategies (often involving the use of high- performance parallel computers) for computing approximate global minimizers. The purpose of the sessions represented in this volume was to discuss the new algorithmic advances for global minimization in the context of protein folding and related molecular minimization problems. Emphasis was on practical shortcomings of current approaches, outstanding problems and questions, and the use of high-performance parallel computers.

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With contributions by specialists in optimization and practitioners in the fields of aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, and fluid and solid mechanics, the major themes include an assessment of the state of the art in optimization algorithms as well as challenging applications in design and control, in the areas of process engineering and systems with partial differential equation models.