Applied mathematics

This contributed volume provides an up-to-date overview of the mechanics of granular materials, ranging from sparse media to soils.

This book provides an extensive coverage of the methodology of survival analysis, ranging from introductory level material to deeper more advanced topics.

This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

This book describes five qualitative investment decision-making methods based on the hesitant fuzzy information.

This work gathers a selection of outstanding papers presented at the 25th Conference on Differential Equations and Applications / 15th Conference on Applied Mathematics, held in Cartagena, Spain, in June 2017.

This book highlights recent advances in the field of districting, territory design, and zone design.

This volume presents a selection of research papers on various topics at the interface of statistics and computer science.

This book provides an introduction to various aspects of Algebraic Statistics with the principal aim of supporting Master's and PhD students who wish to explore the algebraic point of view regarding recent developments in Statistics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, AC 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, in Orlando, FL, USA in July, 2019.

This proceedings presents the result of the 8th International Conference in Network Analysis, held at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, in May 2018.

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference, HCI International 2019, which took place in Orlando, FL, USA, in July 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 26th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2019, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2019.

Cybercrime remains a growing challenge in terms of security and privacy practices.

This monograph focuses on those stochastic quickest detection tasks in disorder problems that arise in the dynamical analysis of statistical data.

Like norms, translation invariant functions are a natural and powerful tool for the separation of sets and scalarization.

This textbook provides a broad overview of the present state of insurance mathematics and some related topics in risk management, financial mathematics and probability.

This book gives a mathematical insight--including intermediate derivation steps--into engineering physics and turbulence modeling related to an anisotropic modification to the Boussinesq hypothesis (deformation theory) coupled with the similarity theory of velocity fluctuations.

How does mathematics impact everyday events?

This book discusses the design of new space missions and their use for a better understanding of the dynamical behaviour of solar system bodies, which is an active field of astrodynamics.

The book is devoted to intelligent design of structures as a novel kind of designing based on computational intelligence.

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at ROBOT 2019 - the Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in Porto, Portugal, on November 20th-22nd, 2019.

This book presents an in-depth, science-based approach to applying key project-management and spatial tools and practices in environmental projects.

This book focuses on recent advances, approaches, theories and applications related to mixture models.

This is an anthology of contemporary studies from various disciplinary perspectives written by some of the world's most renowned experts in each of the areas of mathematics, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, semiotics, education, and more.

Einstein once remarked "e;After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form.

This book presents the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications, which was held at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany, in May 2018, under the auspices of the International Society of Difference Equations (ISDE).

The volume reports on interdisciplinary discussions and interactions between theoretical research and practical studies on geometric structures and their applications in architecture, the arts, design, education, engineering, and mathematics.

This book explores the processes of spoken language production and perception from a neurobiological perspective.

This book provides theoretical and applied material for estimating vital parts of demography and health issues including the healthy aging process along with calculating the healthy life years lost to disability.

This book depicts graph labelings that have led to thought-provoking problems and conjectures.

From artificial neural net / game theory / semantic applications, to modeling tools, smart manufacturing systems, and data science research - this book offers a broad overview of modern intelligent methods and applications of machine learning, evolutionary computation, Industry 4.

This book is aimed at students in social sciences programs that include some course in quantitative methods.

This book provides an undergraduate introduction to analysing data for data science, computer science, and quantitative social science students.

This contributed volume features invited papers on current models and statistical methods for spatial and multivariate data.

This book focuses on the latest approaches and methods in fundamental mathematics and mechanics, and discusses the practical application of abstract mathematical approaches, such as differential geometry, and differential and difference equations in solid mechanics, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, optimization, decision-making theory and control theory.

This book gives a concise presentation of the mathematical foundations of Game Theory, with an emphasis on strategic analysis linked to information and dynamics.

The 20th century saw radical changes in the way serious music is composed and produced, including the advent of electronic instruments and novel compositional methods such as serialism and stochastic music.

The book presents nine mini-courses from a summer school, Dynamics of Biological Systems, held at the University of Alberta in 2016, as part of the prestigious seminar series: Seminaire de Mathematiques Superieures (SMS).

The main purpose of the book is to give a rigorous introduction to the most important and useful solution methods of various types of stochastic control problems for jump diffusions and their applications.

This book presents four survey articles on various aspects of open quantum systems, specifically addressing quantum Markovian processes, Feller semigroups and nonequilibrium dynamics.

This book covers the history and recent developments of stochastic computing.

This contributed volume collects papers presented at a special session of the conference Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE) held in Cadiz, Spain from June 30 - July 6, 2019.

In this textbook the authors introduce the important concepts of the financial software domain, and motivate the use of an agile software engineering approach for the development of financial software.

This self-contained book describes social influence from a computational point of view, with a focus on recent and practical applications, models, algorithms and open topics for future research.

This book reviews some of the most recent developments in neural networks, with a focus on applications in actuarial sciences and finance.

There has been an increase in attention toward systems involving large numbers of small players, giving rise to the theory of mean field games, mean field type control and nonlinear Markov games.

This book describes an encompassing modeling approach to psychotherapy, created with the most recent research in the field.

Fractional equations and models play an essential part in the description of anomalous dynamics in complex systems.

This book discusses risk management, product pricing, capital management and Return on Equity comprehensively and seamlessly.

This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications.