Applied mathematics

This volume contains current work at the frontiers of research in infinite dimensional stochastic analysis.

In this book, leading researchers present their current work in the challenging area of chaos control in nonlinear circuits and systems, with emphasis on practical methodologies, system design techniques and applications.

This volume contains invited lectures and selected research papers in the fields of classical and modern differential geometry, global analysis, and geometric methods in physics, presented at the 10th International Conference on Differential Geometry and its Applications (DGA2007), held in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Chaos is considered as one of the most important concepts in modern science.

The ideas and principles of stochastic analysis have managed to penetrate into various fields of pure and applied mathematics in the last 15 years; it is particularly true for mathematical physics.

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

Differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) provide an essential tool for system modeling and analysis within different fields of applied sciences and engineering.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how observer-participant perspectives are generated, what constrains them and how they may be modified.

The book presents a coherent treatment of Markov random walks and Markov additive processes together with their applications.

This book contains the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Italian Systems Society.

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.

This edited book presents recent developments and state-of-the-art review in various areas of mathematical programming and game theory.

This book focuses on the research topics investigated during the three-year research project funded by the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR: Ministry of Education, University and Research) under the FIRB project RBNE01CW3M.

Nonlinear systems with stationary sets are important because they cover a lot of practical systems in engineering.

This volume of proceedings consists of the papers presented during the 8th International Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Scattering Theory and Biomedical Engineering, held in Lefkada, Greece, on 27-29 September 2007.

Piecewise constant systems exist in widely expanded areas such as engineering, physics, and mathematics.

This book aims to provide the readers with a wide panorama of different aspects related to Chaos, Complexity and Transport.

This book shows the advanced methods of numerical simulation of waves and fronts propagation in inhomogeneous solids and introduces related important ideas associated with the application of numerical methods for these problems.

This book contains the general description of the mathematical pendulum subject to constant torque, periodic and random forces.

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.

This volume contains recent results in quantum probability and related topics.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2008 Conference on Frontiers of Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM'08), held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), May 19-21, 2008.

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

Although more than 60 years have passed since their first appearance, Feynman path integrals have yet to lose their fascination and luster.

This book presents a systematic approach to problems in economic equilibrium based on fixed-point arguments and rigorous set-theoretical (axiomatic) methods.

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 is the proceedings volume of the International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics Summer School course held in Ankara, Turkey, in August 2008.

This new volume introduces readers to the current topics of industrial and applied mathematics in China, with applications to material science, information science, mathematical finance and engineering.

This volume includes the best papers presented at the CHAOS 2008 International Conference on Chaotic Modeling, Simulation and Applications.

This book is a collection of lecture notes on Nonlinear Conservation Laws, Fluid Systems and Related Topics delivered at the 2007 Shanghai Mathematics Summer School held at Fudan University, China, by world's leading experts in the field.

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

This book aims to present a new approach called Flow Curvature Method that applies Differential Geometry to Dynamical Systems.

Stochastic dynamical systems and stochastic analysis are of great interests not only to mathematicians but also to scientists in other areas.

Reliability theory and applications become major concerns of engineers and managers engaged in making high quality products and designing highly reliable systems.

Chaos: from simple models to complex systems aims to guide science and engineering students through chaos and nonlinear dynamics from classical examples to the most recent fields of research.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of research articles in applied and industrial mathematics in Italy.

The book gives a comprehensive treatment of the classical and modern ruin probability theory.

With the advance of new computing technology, simulation is becoming very popular for designing large, complex and stochastic engineering systems, since closed-form analytical solutions generally do not exist for such problems.

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

This book captures the state-of-the-art in the field of Strong Stability Preserving (SSP) time stepping methods, which have significant advantages for the time evolution of partial differential equations describing a wide range of physical phenomena.

Mathematical sciences have been playing an increasingly important role in modern society.

This review volume consists an indispensable collection of research papers chronicling the recent progress in controlling chaos.

Real-world systems that involve some non-smooth change are often well-modeled by piecewise-smooth systems.

This volume contains a collection of papers suggested by the Scientific Committee that includes the best papers presented in the 2nd International Conference (CHAOS2009) on Chaotic Modeling, Simulation and Applications, that was held in Chania, Crete, Greece, June 1-5, 2009.

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.

This book is based on research on the rigorous proof of chaos and bifurcations in 2-D quadratic maps, especially the invertible case such as the Henon map, and in 3-D ODE's, especially piecewise linear systems such as the Chua's circuit.

The book is a compilation of selected papers from the conference on Physics and Control 2009, presenting a unified perspective underlying the thematics and strategies related to the control of physical systems with emerging applications in physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and other natural sciences.