Optimization

This book explains and justifies efficient general methods of making decisions and will guide practical efforts to streamline rational choice.

Andreas Barmann develops novel approaches for the solution of network design problems as they arise in various contexts of applied optimization.

This book offers a wealth of interdisciplinary approaches to urbanization strategies in architecture centered on growing concerns about the future of cities and their impacts on essential elements of architectural optimization, livability, energy consumption and sustainability.

Industrial production is one of the most basic human activities indispensable to the economic activity.

Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological situations.

A groundbreaking new synthesis and theory of social institutionsUnderstanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic.

Noise is a common factor in most real-world optimization problems.

This book deals with critical infrastructure safety analysis based on reliability modelling of multistate ageing system.

The aim of Metaheuristics: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization is to provide several different kinds of information: a delineation of general metaheuristics methods, a number of state-of-the-art articles from a variety of well-known classical application areas as well as an outlook to modern computational methods in promising new areas.

The book investigates the fractional calculus-based approaches and their benefits to adopting in complex real-time areas.

This book addresses and disseminates research and development in the applications of intelligent techniques for computer vision, the field that works on enabling computers to see, identify, and process images in the same way that human vision does, and then providing appropriate output.

Studierende der Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft haben heutzutage ein betrachtli­ ches Pensum an Mathematik zu absolvieren, und dieses Pensum wird in Zukunft mit Sicherheit nicht geringer werden.

The primary goal of this book is to present the research findings and conclusions of physicists, economists, mathematicians and financial engineers working in the field of "e;Econophysics"e; who have undertaken agent-based modelling, comparison with empirical studies and related investigations.

This book argues that patents and copyrights are not necessary for innovation and overall do not serve the public good.

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

This volume highlights contributions of women mathematicians in the study of complex materials and includes both original research papers and reviews.

Topology Design Methods for Structural Optimization provides engineers with a basic set of design tools for the development of 2D and 3D structures subjected to single and multi-load cases and experiencing linear elastic conditions.

The Unpredictability of Gameplay explores the many forms of unpredictability in games and proposes a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding and categorizing non-deterministic game mechanics.

This volume is a user-friendly presentation of the main theoretical properties of the Fourier-Malliavin volatility estimation, allowing the readers to experience the potential of the approach and its application in various financial settings.

The articles that comprise this distinguished annual volume for the Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics series have been written in honor of Gilbert Strang, a world renowned mathematician and exceptional person.

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This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Optimization Problems, APPROX 2003 and of the 7th International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM 2003, held in Princeton, NY, USA in August 2003.

In January 1992, the Sixth Workshop on Optimization and Numerical Analysis was held in the heart of the Mixteco-Zapoteca region, in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, a beautiful and culturally rich site in ancient, colonial and modern Mexican civiliza- tion.

This book, the second of two volumes, presents significant applications for understanding modern analysis.

This book presents the best papers from the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2024, held in Malaga, Spain.

Multistage stochastic optimization problems appear in many ways in finance, insurance, energy production and trading, logistics and transportation, among other areas.

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River.

This book presents an enticing introduction to tropical circuits and their use as a rigorous mathematical model for dynamic programming (DP), which is one of the most fundamental algorithmic paradigms for solving combinatorial, discrete optimization problems.

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality.

Traditional FEM and the more recent BEM underlie many engineering computational methods and corresponding software.

Stealth technology is a crucial pre-requisite in the combat zone, where swiftness, surprise and initiative are the decisive elements for survivability.

In Part I, the fundamentals of financial thinking and elementary mathematical methods of finance are presented.

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys provides survey articles and references of the seminal or state-of-the-art research on MCDA.

This book has arisen from a colloquium held at St.

Statistical learning theory is aimed at analyzing complex data with necessarily approximate models.

mathematische Lösungsmethoden bei der Untersuchung der ihn interessieren­ den Fragen helfen können.

Fractional Calculus and Fractional Processes with Applications to Financial Economics presents the theory and application of fractional calculus and fractional processes to financial data.

This book is focused on the discussion of the traffic assignment problem, the mathematical and practical meaning of variables, functions and basic principles.

This book focuses on the systematic design of reduced-order sliding mode output tracking control for non-minimum phase systems.

3D rotation analysis is widely encountered in everyday problems thanks to the development of computers.

This Springer brief addresses the challenges encountered in the study of  the optimization of time-nonhomogeneous Markov chains.

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2013)"e; which took place at Erasmus University Rotterdam September 3-6, 2013.

Based on the "e;Sixth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; (Piraeus, Greece, July 2023), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on disasters either caused by natural phenomena or human activities.

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

This book explores key examples concerning the implementation of information technology and mathematical modeling to solve issues concerning environmental sustainability.

Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars.

The book provides a collection of recent applications of nature inspired optimization in industrial fields.

This book aims to unravel the complex tapestry that interweaves strategic decision-making models with the forefront of deep learning techniques.

This book includes a self-contained theory of inequality problems and their applications to unilateral mechanics.