... Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering, World Scientific, Singapore.Ravindran, A., Ragsdell, K.M. and Reklaitis, G.V. (2006). Engineering Optimiza-tion: Methods and Applications, ... conditions for optimality, for handling constraints in SGO techniques, and evaluate its performance on selected nonlinear and mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems. In C hapter 12, Luus illustrates ... on handling constraints and for solving large application problems.More theoretical analysis of SGO techniques is also required for betterunderstanding and for improving them.4. Scope and...