Product Description: This translation of the important Russian text covers the theory and computational methods of modified Lagrangian functions (MLFs)—a new branch of mathematical programming used to solve optimization problems. Providing a thorough analysis for both traditional convex programming and monotone maps, the book shows the advantages of MLFs over classical Lagrangian functions in such practical applications as numerical algorithms, economic modeling, de-composition, and nonconvex local constrained optimization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)