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Optimization plainly dominates the design, planning, operation, and c- trol of engineering systems. This is a book on optimization that considers particular cases of optimization problems, those with a decomposable str- ture that can be advantageously exploited. Those decomposable optimization problems are ubiquitous in engineering and science applications. The book considers problems with both complicating constraints and complicating va- ables, and analyzes linear and nonlinear problems, with and without in- ger variables. The decomposition techniques analyzed include Dantzig-Wolfe, Benders, Lagrangian relaxation, Augmented Lagrangian decomposition, and others. Heuristic techniques are also considered. Additionally, a comprehensive sensitivity analysis for characterizing the solution of optimization problems is carried out. This material is particularly novel and of high practical interest. This book is built based on many clarifying, illustrative, and compu- tional examples, which facilitate the learning procedure. For the sake of cl- ity, theoretical concepts and computational algorithms are assembled based on these examples. The results are simplicity, clarity, and easy-learning. We feel that this book is needed by the engineering community that has to tackle complex optimization problems, particularly by practitioners and researchersinEngineering,OperationsResearch,andAppliedEconomics.The descriptions of most decomposition techniques are available only in complex and specialized mathematical journals, di?cult to understand by engineers. A book describing a wide range of decomposition techniques, emphasizing problem-solving, and appropriately blending theory and application, was not previously available.

Este trabajo constituye una contribución al conocimiento de la representación política parlamentaria, un análisis que pretende desbordar los límites de la exposición biográfica para convertirse en una aportación a la historia de la región castellanomanchega y del Estado en su conjunto. Desde este punto de vista, el objetivo de esta investigación se ha centrado en examinar en todos sus matices, humanos y políticos, al colectivo compuesto por los diputados regionales presentes en las Cortes de Castilla-La Mancha desde 1983 a 2019. Se contienen aquí las biografías de 301 representantes, aquellos que por su condición de diputados autonómicos han ejercido un protagonismo de especial relevancia en el afianzamiento y el desarrollo del autogobierno político en la Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha. Se configura, por tanto, como un análisis social de la política a través de algunos de sus más importantes actores, tomando como opción metodológica el estudio biográfico y prosopográfico. Una orientación que ubica esta obra en las corrientes actuales de los estudios históricos y en el interés de la sociedad por la vida de las personas.