Optimization

In an expanding world with limited resources, optimization and uncertainty quantification have become a necessity when handling complex systems and processes.

This volume originates from the INDAM Symposium on Trends on Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM), which was held at the INDAM headquarters in Rome on 5-9 September 2016.

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 is a tribute to Professor Laurent Praly and follows on from a workshop celebrating the occasion of his 60th birthday.

This book features mathematical and formal philosophers' efforts to understand philosophical questions using mathematical techniques.

This edited volume illustrates the connections between machine learning techniques, black box optimization, and no-free lunch theorems.

This book presents a modern perspective on the modelling, analysis, and synthesis ideas behind convex-optimisation-based control of nonlinear systems: it embeds them in models with convex structures.

The chapters in this volume explore how various methods from game theory can be utilized to optimize security and risk-management strategies.

This book collects together lectures by some of the leaders in the field of partial differential equations and geometric measure theory.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2017), which was held at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany on September 6-8, 2017.

This book deals with modern Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software tools and platforms implemented in ship design, the integration of techno-economic databases, the use of optimisation and simulation software tools, which are integrated in these platforms, and the virtual modelling of ships and their operation by using a Virtual Vessel Framework (VVF).

Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems takes an anisotropy-based approach to the explanation of random input disturbance with an information-theoretic representation.

This book introduces readers to benchmarking techniques in the stochastic environment, primarily stochastic data envelopment analysis (DEA), and provides stochastic models in DEA for the possibility of variations in inputs and outputs.

This book is an original-the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck.

This book introduces readers to the "e;Jaya"e; algorithm, an advanced optimization technique that can be applied to many physical and engineering systems.

This book provides practical solutions for addressing energy efficiency as a clause term within a charter party contract.

This edited monograph contains research contributions on a wide range of topics such as stochastic control systems, adaptive control, sliding mode control and parameter identification methods.

This book reports on advanced concepts in fuzzy graph theory, showing a set of tools that can be successfully applied to understanding and modeling illegal human trafficking.

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.

This book highlights new and original contributions on Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization both from the theoretical point of view and from applications in all fields.

This book presents the best papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2020, held in Vilamoura, Portugal.

This textbook introduces Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques for wireless communications and networks, helping readers to find solutions for communications and network problems using AI.

This book explains how energy demand and energy consumption in new buildings can be predicted and how these aspects and the resulting CO2 emissions can be reduced.

Many of the most challenging problems in the applied sciences involve non-differentiable structures as well as partial differential operators, thus leading to non-smooth distributed parameter systems.

This book gathers nineteen papers presented at the first NLAGA-BIRS Symposium, which was held at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, on June 24-28, 2019.

This book presents new techniques and methods for distributed control and optimization of networked microgrids.

This book presents an introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) which is an emerging field in the area of complex systems attracting the attention of researchers from disparate scientific communities.

This edited monograph provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of sliding mode control, focusing on event-triggered implementation.

This is the second of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing.

This book is the first comprehensive tutorial on matheuristics.

This textbook is addressed to PhD or senior undergraduate students in mathematics, with interests in analysis, calculus of variations, probability and optimal transport.

This contributed volume contains the research results of the Cluster of Excellence "e;Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries"e;, funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

Optimization of Pharmaceutical Processes presents contributions from leading authorities in the fields of optimization and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

This book, which is the first of two volumes, presents, in a unique way, some of the most relevant research tools of modern analysis.

This textbook covers the fundamentals of optimization, including linear, mixed-integer linear, nonlinear, and dynamic optimization techniques, with a clear engineering focus.

This book is addressed to researchers in operations research, data science and artificial intelligence.

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses.

Facility location theory develops the idea of locating one or more facilities by optimizing suitable criteria such as minimizing transportation cost, or capturing the largest market share.

This book dives into radio resource allocation optimizations, a research area for wireless communications, in a pragmatic way and not only includes wireless channel conditions but also incorporates the channel in a simple and practical fashion via well-understood equations.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the classical and modern calculus of variations, serving as a useful reference to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the field.

This book presents the mathematical theory of vector variational inequalities and their relations with vector optimization problems.

This monograph explores the motion of incompressible fluids by presenting and incorporating various boundary conditions possible for real phenomena.

The first part of this volume gathers the lecture notes of the courses of the "e;XVII Escuela Hispano-Francesa"e;, held in Gijon, Spain, in June 2016.

The research and review papers presented in this volume provide an overview of the main issues, findings, and open questions in cutting-edge research on the fields of modeling, optimization and dynamics and their applications to biology, economics, energy, finance, industry, physics and psychology.

This volume presents the revised papers of the 14th International Conference in Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, MCQMC 2020, which took place online during August 10-14, 2020.

This book describes applications of Jaya and Rao algorithms on real case studies concerning different renewable energy sources.

This is the third of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing.

This volume reflects the 'philosophy of science in practice' approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research.

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

This text provides a comprehensive and unique introduction to modern microeconomics.