Visualization and Optimization / Edition 1

by Christopher V. Jones

Overview

This book arose out of an invited feature article on visualization and opti­ mization that appeared in the ORSA Journal on Computing in 1994. That article briefly surveyed the current state of the art in visualization as it ap­ plied to optimization. In writing the feature article, it became clear that there was much more to say. Apparently others agreed, and thus this book was born. The book is targeted primarily towards the optimization community rather than the visualization community. Although both optimization and visualization both seek to help people understand complex problems, prac­ titioners in one field are generally unaware of work in the other field. Given the common goals of the respective fields, it seemed fruitful to consider how each can contribute to the other. One might argue that this book should not be focused specifically on optimization but on decision making in general. Perhaps, but it seems that there is sufficient material to create a book targeted specifically to optimization. Certainly many of the ideas presented in the book are appli­ cable to other areas, including computer simulation, decision theory and shastic modeling. Another book could discuss the use of visualization in these areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396727
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/31/1996
Series:	Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series , #6
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	434
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1 A Framework for Visualization and Optimization.- 2 People.- 3 Text and Tables.- 4 Graphics and Animation.- 5 Sound and Touch.- 6 Hypermedia and Virtual Reality.- II Visualization and the Modeling Life-cycle Bibliography.- 7 Conceptual Models.- 8 Formulation.- 9 Algorithm Execution.- 10 Solution Analysis.- III Visualization for Optimization.- 11 Text.- 12 Hypertext.- 13 Networks and Graphs.- 14 Multiple Dimensions.- 15 Animation.- 16 Sound, Touch and Virtual Reality.- 17 Visualization Tools.- 18 Integration.- 19 Research and Future Directions.- Colophon.- Author Index.

Editorial Reviews

Specifically addresses how scientific visualization techniques can contribute to the representation needed in constructing optimization models. Argues that such techniques must augment the ever more powerful algorithms that optimization research has developed to analyze ever more complicated problems. Examines relevant techniques of computer graphics, virtual reality, and sonification among others. Turn-about being fair play, also considers the applications of optimization to visualization. Includes high quality graphics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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