Mathematical modelling

This volume contains selected papers presented at the Fourth Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics.

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) originally emerged in the domain of speech recognition.

This monograph derives from familiar economic principles the dynamics of national income, the interest rate, employment, the value of capital stock, prices, and the cumulative balance of payments.

This book introduces a practical approach to the modelling and computation of real-world systems.

This book presents the idea of zero-range potentials and shows the limitations of the point models used in structural mechanics.

This book is an essential reference for engineers and scientists working in the field of turbulence.

First organized in 1981, the WASCOM conference to bring together researchers and scientists from all over the world to discuss problems, promote collaborations and shape future directions for research in the field of stability and wave propagation in continuous media.

Economics and the social sciences are, in fact, the "e;hard"e; sciences, as Herbert Simon argued, because the complexity of the problems dealt with cannot simply be reduced to analytically solvable models or decomposed into separate subprocesses.

Matrix-analytic methods are fundamental to the analysis of a family of Markov processes rich in structure and of wide applicability.

This book on modelling and simulation in biomathematics will be invaluable to researchers who are interested in the emerging areas of the field.

This book is a collection of selected refereed papers presented at the International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, and the Eighth International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics.

This book presents contributions on the following topics: discretization methods in the velocity and space, analysis of the conservation properties, asymptotic convergence to the continuous equation when the number of velocities tends to infinity, and application of discrete models.

This book contains the papers presented at the conference on "e;Mathematical Models and Methods for Smart Materials"e;, held in Italy in 2001.

The study and application of N-body problems has had an important role in the history of mathematics.

With contributions from an international team of leading researchers, the book pulls together updated research results in the area of HIV/AIDS modeling to provide readers with the latest information in the field.

This volume documents the research carried out by visiting scientists attached to the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) at the National University of Singapore and the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) under the program "e;Advances and Mathematical Issues in Large Scale Simulation.

Industrial mathematics is evolving into an important branch of mathematics.

Operations research uses quantitative models to analyze and predict the behavior of systems and to provide information for decision makers.

This volume contains the contributions of the keynote speakers to the BIOMAT 2005 symposium, as well as a collection of selected papers by pioneering researchers.

A reprint of one of the classic volumes on portfolio theory and investment, this book has been used by the leading professors at universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie-Mellon.

This book is the first in the market to treat single- and multi-period risk measures (risk functionals) in a thorough, comprehensive manner.

This useful volume contains the contributions from the keynote speakers of the BIOMAT 2006 symposium as well as selected contributions in the areas of mathematical biology, biological physics, biophysics and bioinformatics.

This seminal book unites three different areas of modern science: the micromechanics and nanomechanics of composite materials; wavelet analysis as applied to physical problems; and the propagation of a new type of solitary wave in composite materials, nonlinear waves.

Industrial mathematics is evolving into an important branch of mathematics.

Geometry, Language and Strategy is a way of looking at game theory or strategic decision-making from a scientific perspective, using standard equations from the fields of engineering and physics.

Many people are concerned about crises leading to disasters in nature, in social and economic life.

This review volume is divided into two parts.

This volume gathers articles presented at a prominent European conference on smart systems and summarizes the activities carried out by a research and training network supported by the European community.

Phase transition phenomena arise in a variety of relevant real world situations, such as melting and freezing in a solid-liquid system, evaporation, solid-solid phase transitions in shape memory alloys, combustion, crystal growth, damage in elastic materials, glass formation, phase transitions in polymers, and plasticity.

This collection of articles covers the hottest topics in contemporary applied mathematics.

This collection of review articles is devoted to the modeling of ecological, epidemiological and evolutionary systems.

Composed of contributions from an international team of leading researchers, this book pulls together the most recent research results in the field of cancer modeling to provide readers with the most advanced mathematical models of cancer and their applications.

The markets for electricity, gas and temperature have distinctive features, which provide the focus for countless studies.

The present volume contains the contributions of the keynote speakers of the BIOMAT 2007 Symposium as well as selected contributed papers in the areas of mathematical biology, biological physics, biophysics and bioinformatics.

The lack of scientists equally trained and prepared to understand both mathematics and biology/medicine hampers the development and application of computer simulation methods in biology and neurogastrobiology.

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a research program on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Dynamics and Control from 15 August to 9 October 2005.

The Control Volume Finite Element Method (CVFEM) is a hybrid numerical method, combining the physics intuition of Control Volume Methods with the geometric flexibility of Finite Element Methods.

Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water.

This volume contains pedagogical and elementary introductions to genetics for mathematicians and physicists as well as to mathematical models and techniques of population dynamics.

This volume provides recent developments and a state-of-the-art review in various areas of mathematical modeling, computation and optimization.

This volume holds a collection of articles based on the talks presented at ICDEA 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

This volume contains the selected contributed papers from the BIOMAT 2009 - Ninth International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology and the contributions of the Keynote Speakers which present the state of the art of fundamental topics of interdisciplinary science to research groups and interested individuals on the mathematical modelling of biological phenomena.

The book describes a useful tool for solving linear inverse problems subject to convex constraints.

This monograph has the ambitious aim of developing a mathematical theory of complex biological systems with special attention to the phenomena of ageing, degeneration and repair of biological tissues under individual self-repair actions that may have good potential in medical therapy.

This volume contains the selected contributed papers of the BIOMAT 2010 International Symposium which has been organized as a joint conference with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (www.

The subject of fractional calculus and its applications (that is, convolution-type pseudo-differential operators including integrals and derivatives of any arbitrary real or complex order) has gained considerable popularity and importance during the past three decades or so, mainly due to its applications in diverse fields of science and engineering.

The aim of the book is to present side-by-side representative and cutting-edge samples of work in mathematical psychology and the analytic philosophy with prominent use of mathematical formalisms.

The field of computational sciences has seen a considerable development in mathematics, engineering sciences, and economic equilibrium theory.

This review volume reports the state-of-the-art in Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) system identification.

This book aims to discuss the core and underlying principles and analysis of the different constraint handling approaches.