Maths for computer scientists

This book evolved from notes originally developed for a graduate course, "e;Best Approximation in Normed Linear Spaces,"e; that I began giving at Penn State Uni- versity more than 25 years ago.

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics.

This book puts in one place and in accessible form Richard Berk's most recent work on forecasts of re-offending by individuals already in criminal justice custody.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2021, which was held virtually in June 2021.

Discover the art and science of solving artificial intelligence problems with Python using optimization modeling.

The study of combinatorial block designs is a vibrant area of combinatorial mathematics with connections to finite geometries, graph theory, coding theory and statistics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2018, held in Nice, France, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Combinatorics on Words, WORDS 2019, held in Loughborough, UK, in September 2019.

Information theory is an exceptional field in many ways.

Almost 12 years have passed by since we wrote Chaos and Fractals.

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a solid background and understanding of the basic results and methods in probability theory before entering into more advanced courses (in probability and/or statistics).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2020, held in London, UK, in June 2020.

This easy-to-follow textbook/reference presents a concise introduction to mathematical analysis from an algorithmic point of view, with a particular focus on applications of analysis and aspects of mathematical modelling.

The main intended audience for this book is undergraduate students in pure and applied sciences, especially those in engineering.

This book presents a short introduction to the main tools of optimization methodology including linear programming, steepest descent, conjugate gradients, and the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker-John conditions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2021, which took place virtually during June 24-25, 2021.

This volume reflects the theme of the INFORMS 2004 Meeting in Denver: Back to OR Roots.

One of the most well-known of all network optimization problems is the shortest path problem, where a shortest connection between two locations in a road network is to be found.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation Systems, QEST 2019, held in Glasgow, UK, in September 2019.

Numerical Algorithmic Science and Engineering (NAS&E), or more compactly, Numerical Algorithmics, is the theoretical and empirical study and the practical implementation and application of algorithms for solving finite-dimensional problems of a numeric nature.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2019, held in Graz, Austria, in July 2019.

Science involves descriptions of the world we live in.

Emphasizes the strategy of experimentation, data analysis, and the interpretation of experimental results.

Sparse grids are a popular tool for the numerical treatment of high-dimensional problems.

The present textbook contains the recordsof a two-semester course on que- ing theory, including an introduction to matrix-analytic methods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, SOFSEM 2020, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in January 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2019, held as part of STAF 2019, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in July2019.

A classical queueing model consists of three parts - arrival process, service process, and queue discipline.

Foreword by Dieter Jungnickel Finite Commutative Rings and their Applications answers a need for an introductory reference in finite commutative ring theory as applied to information and communication theory.

Asymptotic Combinatorial Coding Theory is devoted to the investigation of the combinatorial properties of transmission systems using discrete signals.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2020, held in November 2020.

This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the cross-entropy (CE) method.

Methods of dimensionality reduction provide a way to understand and visualize the structure of complex data sets.

Taken literally, the title "e;All of Statistics"e; is an exaggeration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2019.

Introduction to Discrete Event Systems is a comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of varied backgrounds.

We publish in this volume a selection of the papers presented at the 22nd Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held at the Politecnico di Torino in July 2005.

In his new undergraduate textbook, Harold M.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2020.

In the spectrum of mathematics, graph theory which studies a mathe- matical structure on a set of elements with a binary relation, as a recognized discipline, is a relative newcomer.

Marking 94 years since its first appearance, this book provides an annotated translation of Sainte-Lague's seminal monograph Les reseaux (ou graphes), drawing attention to its fundamental principles and ideas.

At first sight discrete and fractional programming techniques appear to be two com- pletely unrelated fields in operations research.

Maple V Mathematics Programming Guide is the fully updated language and programming reference for Maple V Release 5.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2019, held in Trieste, Italy, in September 2019.

Multi-valued and fuzzy logics provide mathematical and computational tools for handling imperfect information and decision-making with rational collective reasoning and irrational individual judgements.

When the 50th anniversary of the birth of Information Theory was celebrated at the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Informa- tion Theory in Boston, there was a great deal of reflection on the the year 1993 as a critical year.

Combinatorial optimization is the process of finding the best, or optimal, so- lution for problems with a discrete set of feasible solutions.

This monograph provides a self-contained presentation of the foundations of finite fields, including a detailed treatment of their algebraic closures.