Ramteen Sioshansi is an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University. He holds a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journals and has been the principal investigator of many research projects sponsored by public agencies and private industry. Antonio J. Conejo, professor at The Ohio State University, OH, US, received the B.S from Univ. P. Comillas, Spain, the M.S. from MIT, US and the Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has published over 190 papers in SCI journals and is the author or coauthor of books published by Springer, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill and CRC. He has been the principal investigator of many research projects financed by public agencies and the power industry and has supervised 19 PhD theses. He is an IEEE Fellow.

• 1. Optimization is Ubiquitous.- 2. Linear Optimization.- 3. Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization.- 4. Nonlinear Optimization.- 5. Iterative Solution Algorithms for Nonlinear Optimization.- 6. Dynamic Optimization.- A. Taylor Approximations and Definite Matrices.- B. Convexity.- Index.