Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Μη Γραμμικός Προγραμματισμός	Κυρτή Βελτιστοποίηση
Πεδίο	Βελτιστοποίηση	Βελτιστοποίηση
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2006	2004
Δημιουργός	Jorge Nocedal & Stephen Wright	Stephen Boyd & Lieven Vandenberghe
Τύπος	Continuous mathematical optimization	Mathematical optimization framework
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Nocedal, J., & Wright, S. J. (2006). Numerical Optimization (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-30303-1	Boyd, S., & Vandenberghe, L. (2004). Convex Optimization. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-83378-3
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	NLP optimization, Constrained nonlinear optimization, Smooth optimization, Doğrusal olmayan programlama	Convex Programming, Disciplined Convex Programming, Dışbükey Optimizasyon, Convex Mathematical Programming
Συναφείς	3	3
Σύνοψη	Nonlinear programming (NLP) is a branch of mathematical optimization concerned with problems in which the objective function or at least one constraint is nonlinear. Formalized comprehensively by Jorge Nocedal and Stephen Wright in their seminal 2006 text, NLP encompasses gradient-based algorithms — including sequential quadratic programming (SQP), interior-point methods, and quasi-Newton approaches — for finding locally or globally optimal solutions to continuous decision problems arising across engineering, economics, and the physical sciences.	Convex optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that studies the problem of minimizing convex functions over convex sets. Formalized and popularized by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe in their landmark 2004 textbook, the framework unifies a wide family of problems — including linear programming, quadratic programming, semidefinite programming, and second-order cone programming — under a single theoretical roof. Its defining property is that any locally optimal solution is also globally optimal, making it tractable and reliable for engineering, statistics, machine learning, and operations research.