Optimization

This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions.

Control theory can be roughly classified as deterministic or stochastic.

The International Summer School on Mathematical Systems Theory and Economics was held at the Villa Monastero in Varenna, Italy, from June 1 through June 12, 1967.

Max-Min problems are two-step allocation problems in which one side must make his move knowing that the other side will then learn what the move is and optimally counter.

The Fourth International MCDM Conference follows a tradition that began with an exploratory gathering at the University of South Carolina in 1973.

This book has grown out of a desire to explore the possibilities of using optimizing models in transportation planning.

Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science.

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The emphasis throughout the present volume is on the practical application of theoretical mathematical models helping to unravel the underlying mechanisms involved in processes from mathematical physics and biosciences.

Isoperimetric, measure concentration and random process techniques appear at the basis of the modern understanding of Probability in Banach spaces.

In recent years there has been a significant increase of interest in continuous-time Principal-Agent models, or contract theory, and their applications.

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From the reviews of the 2nd edition The substantial development effort of this text clearly shows through in this new edition with its clear writing, good organisation, comprehensive coverage of essential theory, and well-chosen applications.

Changing interest rates constitute one of the major risk sources for banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions.

This book presents in a unified way the mathematical theory of well-posedness in optimization.

The problem of designing a cost-efficient network thatsurvives the failure of one or more nodes or edges of thenetwork is critical to modern telecommunicationsengineering.

The study of complementarity problems is now an interestingmathematical subject with many applications in optimization,game theory, stochastic optimal control, engineering,economics etc.

The book is devoted to the study of distributed control problems governed by various nonsmooth state systems.

The fundamental problem in control engineering is to providerobust performance to uncertain plants.

Block pulse functions have been studied and appliedextensively in the past fifteen years as a basic set offunctions for signal characterizations in systems scienceand control.

The 1990 CIME course on Mathematical Modelling of IndustrialProcesses set out to illustrate some advances in questionsof industrial mathematics, i.

The present proceedings volume is devoted to two subjects.

This research monograph deals with optimal periodic control problems for systems governed by ordinary and functional differential equations of retarded type.

This conference, organized jointly by UTC and INRIA, is the biennial general conference of the IFIP Technical Committee 7 (System Modelling and Optimization), and reflects the activity of its members and working groups.

Nonlinear analysis has developed rapidly in the last three decades.

This book is an outgrowth of notes compiled by the author while teaching courses for undergraduate and masters/MBA ?

The present third edition of The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets is published only four years after the ?

Modern option pricing theory was developed in the late sixties and early seventies by F.

This book presents a comprehensive series of methods in nonsmooth optimization, with a particular focus on their application in stochastic programming and dedicated algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty.

The NLAGA's Biennial International Research Symposium (NLAGA-BIRS) is intended to gather African expertises in Nonlinear Analysis, Geometry and their Applications with their international partners in a four days conference where new mathematical results are presented and discussed.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2025, which took place in Zaragoza, Spain, during June 2025.

This book offers a novel multi-portfolio approach and stochastic programming formulations for modeling and solving contemporary supply chain risk management problems.

An effective reliability programme is an essential component of every product's design, testing and efficient production.

Linear, Time-varying Approximations to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems introduces a new technique for analysing and controlling nonlinear systems.

Safe Adaptive Control gives a formal and complete algorithm for assuring the stability of a switched control system when at least one of the available candidate controllers is stabilizing.