Optimization

This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated, including Nobel Laureates Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten and Alvin Roth.

This book provides an introductory yet rigorous treatment of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle and its application to optimal control problems when simple and complex constraints act on state and control variables, the two classes of variable in such problems.

Graph algorithms are easy to visualize and indeed there already exists a variety of packages to animate the dynamics when solving problems from graph theory.

Intended for advanced undergraduate/graduate students as well as scientists and engineers, this textbook presents a multi-disciplinary view of optimization, providing a thorough examination of algorithms, methods, techniques, and tools from diverse areas of optimization.

The object of this book is to present the basic facts of convex functions, standard dynamical systems, descent numerical algorithms and some computer programs on Riemannian manifolds in a form suitable for applied mathematicians, scientists and engineers.

This book demonstrates what kind of problems, originating in a management accounting setting, may be solved with game theoretic models.

Using a game-theoretic framework, this unified, comprehensive treatment of contest design in economics and computer science focuses on online applications.

Set-valued analysis is an essential tool for the mathematical formulation of many real-life situations, e.

This Palgrave Pivot uses a simple model from game theory to explain the behavior of countries disputing ownership of resources and of small islands in the South China Sea.

This volume contains the proceedings of the XII Symposium of Probability and Stochastic Processes which took place at Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan in Merida, Mexico, on November 16-20, 2015.

This study guide is designed for students taking a Calculus III course.

Through analysis of three case study videogames - Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft - and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of players' creative activity on social media platforms.

This thoroughly revised second edition of Shimon Even''s Graph Algorithms explains algorithms directly and intuitively, in formal but simple language.

Many mathematical models of physical, biological and social systems involve partial differential equations (PDEs).

If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, futbol, fitba, and futebol.

* Unique in its survey of the range of topics.

This volume consists of selected essays by participants of the workshop Control at Large Scales: Energy Markets and Responsive Grids held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.

Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications presents flexible and cost-effective maintenance schedules for aircraft structures, particular in composite airframes.

This book examines optimization problems that in practice involve random model parameters.

Mathematical models can be used to meet many of the challenges and opportunities offered by modern biology.

It was over a decade ago that experimental psychologists and media-effects researchers declared the debate on the effects of violent video gaming as "e;essentially over,"e; referring to the way violence in videogames increases aggressive thoughts, feelings and behaviors in players.

What is the best way to auction an asset?

An extended survey of methods for the control and systems identification in gas turbines, this book reviews current methods and presents a number of new perspectives.

This focused monograph presents a study of subgradient algorithms for constrained minimization problems in a Hilbert space.

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This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

In recent years, technological advances have resulted in the rapid development of a new exciting research direction --- the interdisciplinary use of sensors for data collection, systems analysis, and monitoring.

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP or 3Ps) allow the public sector to seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector during procurement processes.

This book focuses on methods that relate, in one form or another, to the "e;small-gain theorem"e;.

"e;Efficient breach"e; is one of the most discussed topics in the literature of law and economics.

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

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This volume comprises the thoroughly reviewed and revised papers of the First International Conference on New Trends in Applied Mathematics, ICNTAM 2022, which took place in Beni Mellal, Morocco, 19-21 May 2022.

Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic relationship and this book - as a part of the Operations Research and Computer Science Interface Series - sits squarely in the center of the confluence of these two technical research communities.

Differential Game Theory with Applications to Missiles and Autonomous Systems explains the use of differential game theory in autonomous guidance and control systems.

The focus of these conference proceedings is on research, development, and applications in the fields of numerical geometry, scientific computing and numerical simulation, particularly in mesh generation and related problems.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of noncooperative and cooperative dynamic games involving uncertain parameter values, with the stochastic process being described by an event tree.

Mathematical Puzzle Tales from Mount Olympus uses fascinating tales from Greek Mythology as the background for introducing mathematics puzzles to the general public.

This book focuses on the fundamental processes involved in calcium signaling through fractional mathematical modeling.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 200 I International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2(01) held at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, September 3-5,2001.

In engineering and economics a certain vector of inputs or decisions must often be chosen, subject to some constraints, such that the expected costs arising from the deviation between the output of a stochastic linear system and a desired stochastic target vector are minimal.

This special volume focuses on optimization and control of processes governed by partial differential equations.

This book shows how the use of S-variables (SVs) in enhancing the range of problems that can be addressed with the already-versatile linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach to control can, in many cases, be put on a more unified, methodical footing.

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

The contributions included in the volume are drawn from presentations at ODS2019 - International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, which was the 49th annual meeting of the Italian Operations Research Society (AIRO) held at Genoa, Italy, on 4-7 September 2019.

The author of this book made an attempt to create the general theory of optimization of linear systems (both distributed and lumped) with a singular control.