Optimization

A theory is the more impressive, the simpler are its premises, the more distinct are the things it connects, and the broader is its range of applicability.

This volume contains a selection of contributions that were presented at the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications Conference (MOPTA) held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on July 30-August 1, 2012.

This book aims at introducing students into the modern analytical foundations to treat problems and situations in the Calculus of Variations solidly and rigorously.

This book aims at an innovative approach within the framework of convex analysis and optimization, based on an in-depth study of the behavior and properties of the supremum of families of convex functions.

Social computing concerns the study of social behavior and context based on computational systems.

This volume contains select papers presented during the 2nd National Conference on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization.

This book examines the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based metaheuristics algorithms with applications in information security for digital media.

This beginning graduate textbook teaches data science and machine learning methods for modeling, prediction, and control of complex systems.

This book details cutting-edge research into human-like driving technology, utilising game theory to better suit a human and machine hybrid driving environment.

Markov decision processes (MDPs), also called stochastic dynamic programming, were first studied in the 1960s.

This handbook aims to serve as a one-stop, reliable source of reference, with curations of survey and expository contributions on the state-of-the-art in Blockchain technology.

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This text, based on the author's teaching at Ecole Polytechnique, introduces the reader to the world of mathematical modelling and numerical simulation.

This book presents simple design paradigms related to lightweight design, that are derived from an in-depth and theoretically sound analysis based on Pareto theory.

Functional Analysis is primarily concerned with the structure of infinite dimensional vector spaces and the transformations, which are frequently called operators, between such spaces.

This book introduces econometric analysis of cross section, time series and panel data with the application of statistical software.

Motivated by a variational model concerning the depth of the objects in a picture and the problem of hidden and illusory contours, this book investigates one of the central problems of computer vision: the topological and algorithmic reconstruction of a smooth three dimensional scene starting from the visible part of an apparent contour.

This book presents a crisis scenario generator with black swans, black butterflies and worst case scenarios.

This book is devoted to problems of stochastic control and stopping that are time inconsistent in the sense that they do not admit a Bellman optimality principle.

The goal of this book is to gather in a single work the most relevant concepts related in optimization methods, showing how such theories and methods can be addressed using the open source, multi-platform R tool.

This book discusses an important area of numerical optimization, called interior-point method.

Evolutionary computation techniques have attracted increasing att- tions in recent years for solving complex optimization problems.

This book provides several inventory models for making the right decision in inventory management under different environments.

This book attempts to couple control engineering with modern developments in science, through the concept of entropy.

"e;Sustainability in Healthcare: Advances in mHealth AI and Robotics"e; explores sustainable methods in the healthcare industry, focusing on rural and community healthcare improvement, the use of robots for sustainability, and the implementation of AI in healthcare.

Robust and Adaptive Control (second edition) shows readers how to produce consistent and accurate controllers that operate in the presence of uncertainties and unforeseen events.

Fractal geometry is used to model complicated natural and technical phenomena in various disciplines like physics, biology, finance, and medicine.

This book is a compilation of recent research on distributed optimization algorithms for the integral load management of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) fleets and their potential services to the electricity system.

This fundamental work is a sequel to monographs by the same author: Variational Analysis and Applications (2018) and the two Grundlehren volumes Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation: I Basic Theory, II Applications (2006).

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

This classic book is an introduction to dynamic programming, presented by the scientist who coined the term and developed the theory in its early stages.

This book introduces research presented at the "e;International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Applications-2019 (ICAIAA 2019),"e; a two-day conference and workshop bringing together leading academicians, researchers as well as students to share their experiences and findings on all aspects of engineering applications of artificial intelligence.

In earlier forewords to the books in this series on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS), we have dwelt on the pervasive nature of DEDS in our human-made world.

This monograph presents theoretical methods involving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman formalism in conjunction with set-valued techniques of nonlinear analysis to solve significant problems in dynamics and control.

This book features mathematical and formal philosophers' efforts to understand philosophical questions using mathematical techniques.

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Selected papers submitted by participants of the international Conference "e;Stochastic Analysis and Applied Probability 2010"e; ( www.

In view of recent development in perturbation theory, supplementary notes and a supplementary bibliography are added at the end of the new edition.

This book identifies and systematically confirms the various factors that allow dangerous nuclear power projects to proceed without adequate risk assessment, even as society recognizes the magnitude of risks associated with nuclear power generation.

Uncertainties and changes are pervasive characteristics of modern systems involving interactions between humans, economics, nature and technology.

This book is for beginners who are struggling to understand and optimize non-linear problems.

Actuator and sensor delays are among the most common dynamic phenomena in engineering practice, and when disregarded, they render controlled systems unstable.

During the last century, we have witnessed the birth and evolution of sport as an economic activity, which has created jobs on the one hand, but also problems of management on the other.