Optimization

This book deals with the first discriminant theory of linearly separable data (LSD), Theory3, based on the four ordinary LSD of Theory1 and 169 microarrays (LSD) of Theory2.

Invexity and Optimization presents results on invex function and their properties in smooth and nonsmooth cases, pseudolinearity and eta-pseudolinearity.

Game theory has revolutionized the study of animal behavior.

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.

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

The book is a tribute to the research contribution of Professor Andrei Reinhorn in the field of earthquake engineering.

This book provides a basic, initial resource, introducing science and engineering students to the field of optimization.

A mathematically rigorous guide to convex optimization for power systems engineering.

Faced with the challenge of solving hard optimization problems that abound in the real world, classical methods often encounter great difficulty - even when equipped with a theoretical guarantee of finding an optimal solution.

This book describes conditional games - a form of game theory that accommodates multiple stakeholder decision-making scenarios.

With a simple approach that includes real-time applications and algorithms, this book covers the theory of model predictive control (MPC).

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

Mathematica by Example, Fifth Edition is an essential desk reference for the beginning Mathematica user, providing step-by-step instructions on achieving results from this powerful software tool.

This book presents a panorama about the recent progress of industrial mathematics from the point of view of both industrials and researchers.

The first book to use the world's most popular sport to test economic theories and document novel human behaviorA wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields.

This contributed volume guides researchers and practitioners on resource collaborative management of supply chains and manufacturing enterprises within an industrial internet technological environment.

This book is designed to be an introductory course to some basic chapters of Advanced Mathematics for Engineering and Physics students, researchers in different branches of Applied Mathematics and anyone wanting to improve their mathematical knowledge by a clear, live, self-contained and motivated text.

This important book reviews applications of optimization and optimal control theory to modern problems in physics, nano-science and finance.

Integer Optimization addresses a wide spectrum of practically important optimization problems and represents a major challenge for algorithmics.

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

Mathematical methods and theories with interdisciplinary applications are presented in this book.

The Paris-Princeton Lectures in Financial Mathematics, of which this is the second volume, will, on an annual basis, publish cutting-edge research in self-contained, expository articles from outstanding - established or upcoming!

The connected dominating set has been a classic subject studied in graph theory since 1975.

This book presents the stream-tube method (STM), a method offering computational means of dealing with the two- and three-dimensional properties of numerous incompressible materials in static and dynamic conditions.

This monograph deals with a general class of solution approaches in deterministic global optimization, namely the geometric branch-and-bound methods which are popular algorithms, for instance, in Lipschitzian optimization, d.

A self-contained introduction to the use of stochastic geometry techniques for studying the behaviour of heterogeneous cellular networks.

Supply relations are often governed by so-called relational contracts.

This book describes the next generation of industry-Industry 4.

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences-from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science.

This book provides an introduction to vector optimization with variable ordering structures, i.

This volume contains eight papers written by Adam Brandenburger and his co-authors over a period of 25 years.

The International Conference on Finsler and Lagrange Geometry and its Applications: A Meeting of Minds, took place August 13-20, 1998 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

This volume presents state-of-the-art complementarity applications, algorithms, extensions and theory in the form of eighteen papers.

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.

Due to the ability to handle specific characteristics of economics and finance forecasting problems like e.

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 thesis explores several interdisciplinary topics at the border of theoretical physics and biology, presenting results that demonstrate the power of methods from statistical physics when applied to neighbouring disciplines.

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

This volume consists of six essays that develop and/or apply "e;rational expectations equilibrium inventory models"e; to study the time series behavior of production, sales, prices, and inventories at the industry level.

At first sight discrete and fractional programming techniques appear to be two com- pletely unrelated fields in operations research.

This volume contains sixteen original articles documenting recent progress in understanding strategic behaviour.

The aim of this book is to furnish the reader with a rigorous and detailed exposition of the concept of control parametrization and time scaling transformation.

This book deals with decision making in environments of significant data un- certainty, with particular emphasis on operations and production management applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2018, held in Sithonia, Greece, in October 2018.