Stochastic Optimization Estimation, Simulation, and Control

"...well written and accessible to a wide audience...a welcome addition to the control and optimization community." ( IEEE Control Systems Magazine , June 2005)

"...a step toward learning more about optimization techniques that often are not part of a statistician s training." ( Journal of the American Statistical Association , December 2004)

"...provides easy access to a very broad, but related, collection of topics..." ( Short Book Reviews , August 2004)

"Rather than simply present various stochastic search and optimization algorithms as a collection of distinct techniques, the book compares and contrasts the algorithms within a broader context of stochastic methods." ( Technometrics , August 2004, Vol. 46, No. 3)