Optimization

This book is a collection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at the 27th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in June/July 2015.

This book focuses primarily on the nature-inspired approach for designing smart applications.

Simultaneous Differential Equations and Multi-Dimensional Vibrations is the fourth book within Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations, Six-volume Set.

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design.

This book includes selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (CoMSO 2022), organized by National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India, during December 21-23, 2022.

The theory of nonlinear hyperbolic equations in several space dimensions has recently obtained remarkable achievements thanks to ideas and techniques related to the structure and fine properties of functions of bounded variation.

This book offers a valuable reference guide for researchers in distributed optimization and for senior undergraduate and graduate students alike.

For the past several years the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University has been teaching an extremely popular sophomore level differential equations course.

This volume contains select papers presented during the 4th  National Conference on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization.

Along with the traditional material concerning linear programming (the simplex method, the theory of duality, the dual simplex method), In-Depth Analysis of Linear Programming contains new results of research carried out by the authors.

This work reviews the most important results regarding the use of the a-point in Scheduling Theory.

There is an increasing demand for dynamic systems to become more safe and reliable.

The book presents, in a systematic manner, the optimal controls under different mathematical models in fermentation processes.

The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun).

This book covers central issues in mitigating supply chain risks from various perspectives.

Im vorliegenden Buch werden neue Erkenntnisse der Lebensversicherungsmathematik aus dem Gebiet der Markovmodelle und der stochastischen Zinsen behandelt.

In the foreword to Supply Chain Structures, Professor Paul Zipkin notes three global changes that have enabled the recent vast developments in the field of supply chains.

The book is a benefit for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of operations research, decision theory, optimization theory, linear algebra, interval analysis and fuzzy sets.

This book discusses systematic designs of stable adaptive fuzzy logic controllers employing hybridizations of Lyapunov strategy-based approaches/Hinfinity theory-based approaches and contemporary stochastic optimization techniques.

Research on interior-point methods (IPMs) has dominated the field of mathematical programming for the last two decades.

After a decade's development, evolutionary computation (EC) proves to be a powerful tool kit for economic analysis.

Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of interest in the modem as well as the classical techniques of applied mathematics.

Mathematics plays a central role in modern culture, and a basic understanding of the nature of mathematics is required for scientific literacy.

People are facing more and more NP-complete or NP-hard problems of a combinatorial nature and of a continuous nature in economic, military and management practice.

This monograph introduces the authors' work on model predictive control system design using extended state space and extended non-minimal state space approaches.

This book covers some important topics in the construction of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and examines use of these models for the analysis of economic policies, their properties, and their implications.

This volume presents extensive research devoted to a broad spectrum of mathematics with emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects of Optimization and Probability.

This book introduces the reader to the field of multiobjective optimization through problems with simple structures, namely those in which the objective function and constraints are linear.

This book discusses recent developments in mathematical programming and game theory, and the application of several mathematical models to problems in finance, games, economics and graph theory.

This book is devoted to a detailed study of the subgradient projection method and its variants for convex optimization problems over the solution sets of common fixed point problems and convex feasibility problems.

This book discusses recent developments in the vast domain of optimization.

Evolutionary Algorithms and Agricultural Systems deals with the practical application of evolutionary algorithms to the study and management of agricultural systems.

This book presents select peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Numerical Optimization in Engineering and Sciences (NOIEAS) 2019.

The unique book advances understanding of modelling complex systems using hybrid approaches that combine discrete-event, agent-based, and system dynamic simulations with research approaches and artefacts from other scientific disciplines.

This book features contributions from the GTM 2020 International Meeting on Game Theory held virtually from St.

This book provides an overview of classical actuarial techniques, including material that is not readily accessible elsewhere such as the Ammeter risk model and the Markov-modulated risk model.

In recent years many researchers in material science have focused their attention on the study of composite materials, equilibrium of crystals and crack distribution in continua subject to loads.

This monograph presents smooth, unified, and generalized fractional programming problems, particularly advanced duality models for discrete min-max fractional programming.

This book provides an introduction to Suzanne Scotchmer''s contributions to the economics of innovation, intellectual property incentives, and equilibrium theory.

With the diversification of Internet services and the increase in mobile users, efficient management of network resources has become an extremely important issue in the field of wireless communication networks (WCNs).

This book brings together carefully selected, peer-reviewed works on mathematical biology presented at the BIOMAT International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, which was held at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, in October 2017, in Moscow.

Energy is one of the world`s most challenging problems, and power systems are an important aspect of energy related issues.

A lot of economic problems can be formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions.

Most of the existing portfolio selection models are based on the probability theory.

Combinatorial optimization is a multidisciplinary scientific area, lying in the interface of three major scientific domains: mathematics, theoretical computer science and management.

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.