Applied mathematics

Continuing miniaturization of electronic devices, together with the quickly growing number of nanotechnological applications, demands a profound understanding of the underlying physics.

This volume contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the international conference on Advances in Engineering Technologies and Physical Science was held in Hong Kong, 13-15 March, 2013.

Financial Risk Management and Derivative Instruments offers an introduction to the riskiness of stock markets and the application of derivative instruments in managing exposure to such risk.

This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes.

The purpose of this book is to give a unified treatment of the limit theory of branching processes.

With more and more interest in how components of biological systems interact, it is important to understand the various aspects of systems biology.

This book is about the pattern formation and the evolution of crack propagation in engineering materials and structures, bridging mathematical analyses of cracks based on singular integral equations, to computational simulation of engineering design.

Probability for Statisticians is intended as a text for a one year graduate course aimed especially at students in statistics.

Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Mathematica(R) presents advanced analytical solution methods that are used to solve boundary-value problems in engineering and integrates these methods with Mathematica(R) procedures.

Instrumentation and Measurements in Compressible Flows presents detailed information on experiments in compressible fluid flows including technical information pertaining to a wide variety of applications and the experimental basis for compressible flows.

This book focuses on contemporary technologies and research in computational intelligence that has reached the practical level and is now accessible in preclinical and clinical settings.

The book is the extended and revised version of the 1st edition and is composed of two main parts: mathematical background and queueing systems with applications.

Analyzing the phase transition from diffusive to localized behavior in a model of directed polymers in a random environment, this volume places particular emphasis on the localization phenomenon.

Proportional Optimization and Fairness is a long-needed attempt to reconcile optimization with apportionment in just-in-time (JIT) sequences and find the common ground in solving problems ranging from sequencing mixed-model just-in-time assembly lines through just-in-time batch production, balancing workloads in event graphs to bandwidth allocation internet gateways and resource allocation in computer operating systems.

On May 27-31, 1985, a series of symposia was held at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Pro- fessor V.

The book aims to provide comprehensive knowledge and information pertaining to application or implementation of big data in the petroleum industry and its operations (such as exploration, production, refining and finance).

Complex analysis is found in many areas of applied mathematics, from fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, signal processing, control theory, mechanical and electrical engineering to quantum mechanics, among others.

Today econometrics has been widely applied in the empirical study of economics.

Focuses On an Emerging Field in Water EngineeringA broad treatment of the Tsallis entropy theory presented from a water resources engineering point of view, Introduction to Tsallis Entropy Theory in Water Engineering fills a growing need for material on this theory and its relevant applications in the area of water engineering.

Now available in paperback for the first time; essential reading for all students of probability theory.

This book features a selection of revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers who participated in the 26th World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2018), held in San Francisco, USA, on October 23-25, 2018.

Gives a complete introduction to partial differential equations and numerical analysis for upper undergraduates and beginning graduates.

This textbook, now in its third edition, offers a rigorous and self-contained introduction to the theory of continuous-time stochastic processes, stochastic integrals, and stochastic differential equations.

Statistics of Financial Markets offers a vivid yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance.

This graduate text presents the elegant and profound theory of continuous parameter Markov processes and many of its applications.

Hydraulic Servo-systems details the basic concepts of many recent developments of nonlinear identification and nonlinear control and their application to hydraulic servo-systems: developments such as feedback linearisation and fuzzy control.

This ASI- which was also the 28th session of the Seminaire de mathematiques superieures of the Universite de Montreal - was devoted to Fractal Geometry and Analysis.

Decoupling theory provides a general framework for analyzing problems involving dependent random variables as if they were independent.

This SpringerBrief focuses on modeling and power evaluation of high-speed craft.

This new edition updates Durbin & Koopman's important text on the state space approach to time series analysis.

This book discusses the systems of interacting particles evolving in the random media.

This book provides an undergraduate introduction to discrete and continuous-time Markov chains and their applications.

Since its inception in 2013, Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) focuses on mathematical issues arising in the study of our planet.

When people or computers need to make a decision, typically multiple conflicting criteria need to be evaluated; for example, when we buy a car, we need to consider safety, cost and comfort.

This textbook is an introduction to the theory and applications of finite tight frames, an area that has developed rapidly in the last decade.

Although strides have been made to quantitatively explore micro-level structural changes during food processing using advanced technologies, there is currently no comprehensive book that details these developments.

This book provides a detailed introduction to maintenance policies and the current and future research in these fields, highlighting mathematical formulation and optimization techniques.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications HYDRODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR AND INTERACTING PARTICLE SYSTEMS is in part the proceedings of a workshop which was an integral part of the 1985-86 IMA program on STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS.

Dieses Buch widmet sich den mathematischen Grundlagen der Statistik und der Theorie von statistischen Schätz- und Testverfahren.

Over the last 50 years or so, a number of textbooks, monographs and even popular books have been published on nonlinear control theory and design methods.

Convex Analysis may be considered as a refinement of standard calculus, with equalities and approximations replaced by inequalities.

Based on the authors' recent advances, this book focuses on a class of nonlinear systems with mismatched uncertainties/disturbances and discusses their typical control problems.

The book addresses a number of recent topics at the crossroad of philosophy and cognitive science, taking advantage of both the western and the eastern perspectives and conceptions that emerged and were discussed at the PCS2011 Conference recently held in Guangzhou.