Optimization

The book begins with an introduction to software reliability, models and techniques.

  This book gathers the most essential results, including recent ones, on linear-quadratic optimal control problems, which represent an important aspect of stochastic control.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Engineering (ICCE 2017), held in Darmstadt, Germany on September 28-29, 2017.

This book covers a large spectrum of cutting-edge game theory applications in management science in which Professor Georges Zaccour has made significant contributions.

This book engages in an ongoing topic, such as the implementation of nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms, with a main concentration on optimization problems in different fields of engineering optimization applications.

This book constitutes revised selected and extended papers presented at track 4 of the Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, FedCSIS 2020, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during September 6-9, 2020.

The business environment is changing more rapidly than ever before, and new business ideas are emerging.

This book is a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Smart and Intelligent Systems (SIS 2021), which will be held in Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College (VRSEC), Andhra Pradesh, India, during February 25-26, 2021, in virtual mode.

This basic book has been used at the middle schools in Shanghai, China for more than 10 years.

This SpringerBrief bridges the gap between the areas of simulation studies on the one hand, and optimization with natural computing on the other.

This book covers microeconomic theory at the Master's and Ph.

This book will serve as a reference, presenting state-of-the-art research on theoretical aspects of optimal sensor coverage problems.

Ship optimization design is critical to the preliminary design of a ship.

This book is based on the authors' research on the stabilization and fault-tolerant control of batch processes, which are flourishing topics in the field of control system engineering.

A simple algorithm for solving a set of nonlinear equations by matrix algebra has been discovered recently - first by transforming them into an equivalent matrix equation and then finding the solution analytically in terms of the inverse matrix of this equation.

It is impossible to understand modern economics without knowledge of the basic tools of gametheory and mechanism design.

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 focuses on the performance optimization of fault diagnosis methods for power systems including both model-driven ones, such as the linear parameter varying algorithm, and data-driven ones, such as random matrix theory.

The main purpose of the present book is to develop a general framework for population-based metaheuristics based on some basic concepts of set theory.

This book presents the study to design, develop, and implement improved PI control techniques using dead-time compensation, structure enhancements, learning functions and fractional ordering parameters.

This volume offers a wealth of interdisciplinary approaches to artificial intelligence, machine learning and optimization tools, which contribute to the optimization of urban features towards forming smart, sustainable, and livable future cities.

This richly illustrated book introduces the subject of optimization to a broad audience with a balanced treatment of theory, models and algorithms.

Deep connections exist between harmonic and applied analysis and the diverse yet connected topics of machine learning, data analysis, and imaging science.

This will be a two-part handbook on Dynamic Game Theory and part of the Springer Reference program.

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

This book presents techniques for determining uncertainties in numerical solutions with applications in the fields of business administration, civil engineering, and economics, using Excel as a computational tool.

Using numerical examples to illustrate their concepts and results, this book examines recently developed fuzzy multi-criteria methods, such as Intuitionistic Fuzzy TOPSIS, Intuitionistic Fuzzy TOPSIS & DEA-AHP, Intuitionistic VIKOR, Pythagorean WASPAS, Pythagorean ENTROPI, Hesitant CBD, Hesitant MABAC, Triangular EDAS, Triangular PROMETHEE, q-Rung Orthopair COPRAS, and Fuzzy Type - 2 ELECTRE.

Written by a leading expert in turnpike phenomenon, this book is devoted to the study of symmetric optimization, variational and optimal control problems in infinite dimensional spaces and turnpike properties of their approximate solutions.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2021), which was hosted online by the University of Bern from August 31 to September 3, 2021, and was jointly organized by the Operations Research Societies of Switzerland (SVOR/ASRO), Germany (GOR e.

This concise text contains the most commonly-encountered examination problems in the topic of Optimization Models and Methods, an important module in engineering and other disciplines where there exists an increasing need to operate optimally and sustainably under constraints, such as tighter resource availability, environmental consideration, and cost pressures.

This book presents recent advances in the theory and application of the Best-Worst Method (BWM).

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

Since Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques allow the manufacture of complex-shaped structures the combination of lightweight construction, topology optimization, and AM is of significant interest.

This book is a detailed introduction to selective maintenance and updates readers on recent advances in this field, emphasizing mathematical formulation and optimization techniques.

This book is a rigorous but practical presentation of the techniques of uncertainty quantification, with applications in R and Python.

This volume provides a timely survey of interactions between the calculus of variations and theoretical and applied mechanics.

This book includes four courses on geometric measure theory, the calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and differential geometry.

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

This book provides a friendly introduction to the paradigm and proposes a broad panorama of killing applications of the Infinity Computer in optimization: radically new numerical algorithms, great theoretical insights, efficient software implementations, and interesting practical case studies.

This book presents state-of-the-art research and practice in optimization routing, specifically the vehicle routing problem (VRP).

This carefully curated volume presents an in-depth, state-of-the-art discussion on many applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).

The need for optimal partition arises from many real-world problems involving the distribution of limited resources to many users.

This book contains the revised selected papers of the International Conference on Dynamic Monitoring and Optimization, DCO 2021, held in Aveiro, Portugal, February 3-5, 2021.

This proceedings volume convenes selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications in Science and Engineering - ICMASE 2022, which was held on July 4-7, 2022 by the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Romania.

This book presents the best papers from the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2022, held in Vilamoura, Portugal.

This revised and enhanced new edition of a well-established textbook provides a balanced overview of various areas of theoretical physics based on the use of variational principles.

This book gives a detailed information of various real-life applications from various fields using nature inspired optimization techniques.

The book aims at describing the recent developments in the existence and stability of Nash equilibrium.

The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly and dramatically demonstrated the importance of supply chains to the functioning of societies and our economies.