Optimization

During the last decades, considerable progress has been observed in all aspects regarding the study of cooperative systems including modeling of cooperative systems, resource allocation, discrete event driven dynamical control, continuous and hybrid dynamical control, and theory of the interaction of information, control, and hierarchy.

Sobolev spaces become the established and universal language of partial differential equations and mathematical analysis.

This book offers a thorough examination of potential game theory and its applications in radio resource management for wireless communications systems and networking.

The formal optimization handbook is a comprehensive guide that covers a wide range of subjects.

The Encyclopedia of Systems and Control collects a broad range of short expository articles that describe the current state of the art in the central topics of control and systems engineering as well as in many of the related fields in which control is an enabling technology.

This book is devoted to the study of a class of optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

Evolution equations of hyperbolic or more general p-evolution type form an active field of current research.

The problems of interrelation between human economics and natural environment include scientific, technical, economic, demographic, social, political and other aspects that are studied by scientists of many specialities.

A modern treatment of modeling, analysis and control, covering fundamental theory, practical implementation, and advanced strategies.

Introductory courses in combinatorial optimization are popular at the upper undergraduate/graduate levels in computer science, industrial engineering, and business management/OR, owed to its wide applications in these fields.

This book provides a broad overview of project and project management principles, processes, and success/failure factors.

This book, first published in 1996, introduces students to optimization theory and its use in economics and allied disciplines.

A fascinating look at the evolutionary origins of cooperationWhy do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good?

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management, MS 2016, held in Teruel, Spain, in July 2016.

This book presents a unified theory of convex functions, sets, and set-valued mappings in topological vector spaces with its specifications to locally convex, Banach and finite-dimensional settings.

This book addresses complex real-world problems with recent techniques.

This book is dedicated to modern approaches to mathematical modeling of reflexive processes in control.

This book on canonical duality theory provides a comprehensive review of its philosophical origin, physics foundation, and mathematical statements in both finite- and infinite-dimensional spaces.

Neural Approximations for Optimal Control and Decision provides a comprehensive methodology for the approximate solution of functional optimization problems using neural networks and other nonlinear approximators where the use of traditional optimal control tools is prohibited by complicating factors like non-Gaussian noise, strong nonlinearities, large dimension of state and control vectors, etc.

Written by leading experts in the field, Game Theory and Learning for Wireless Networks Covers how theory can be used to solve prevalent problems in wireless networks such as power control, resource allocation or medium access control.

After providing an in-depth introduction to derivative-free global optimization with various constraints, this book presents new original results from well-known experts on the subject.

This book may serve as a basis for students and teachers.

This book is the outcome of a conference held at the Centro De Giorgi of the Scuola Normale of Pisa in September 2012.

This volume offers a wealth of results written by experts from interdisciplinary fields, contributing on a diversity of topics targeting marine and maritime environmental sustainability in coastal and ocean-related areas.

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

This book, following the three published volumes of the book, provides the main purpose to collect research papers and review papers to provide an overview of the main issues, results, and open questions in the cutting-edge research on the fields of modeling, optimization, and dynamics and their applications to biology, economy, energy, industry, physics, psychology and finance.

This text introduces students to an experimental approach to mathematics, using Maple to systematically investigate and develop mathematical theory.

This book presents a novel unified treatment of inverse problems in optimal control and noncooperative dynamic game theory.

This book gathers threads that have evolved across different mathematical disciplines into seamless narrative.

Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game.

This book grew out of lecture notes I used in a course on difference equations that I taught at Trinity University for the past five years.

One has to make everything as simple as possible but, never more simple.

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.

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

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 August 18-20, 2010.

This compelling book advances utilitarianism as the basis for a viable public philosophy, effectively rebutting the common charge that, as moral doctrine, utilitarian thought permits cruel acts, justifies unfair distribution of wealth, and demands too much of moral agents.

How to understand evolution in mathematical terms, i.

This book proposes novel methods for solving different types of non-cooperative games with interval/fuzzy/intuitionistic fuzzy payoffs.

This text provides the undergraduate chemical engineering student with the necessary tools for problem solving in chemical or bio-engineering processes.

This book treats graph colouring as an algorithmic problem, with a strong emphasis on practical applications.

This book explores applications of computational intelligence in key and emerging fields of engineering, especially with regard to condition monitoring and fault diagnosis, inverse problems, decision support systems and optimization.

Written by more than fifty top researchers, this text comprehensively covers a major inter-disciplinary field and its important applications.

The book is devoted to recent research in the global variational theory on smooth manifolds.

Multiobjective problems involve several competing measures of solution quality, and multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) and multiobjective problem solving have become important topics of research in the evolutionary computation community over the past 10 years.

This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 17th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 12-15, 2016, in Urbino, Italy.