A thorough and highly accessible resource for analysts in a broad range of social sciences.

Optimization: Foundations and Applications presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Award-winning educator Ronald E. Miller provides detailed coverage of both classical, calculus-based approaches and newer, computer-based iterative methods.

Dr. Miller lays a solid foundation for both linear and nonlinear...