Optimization

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 presents essential concepts of traditional Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) and its recent variants and also its application to find optimal solution for a variety of real-world engineering and medical problems.

This book provides the fundamental theory of distributed optimization, game and learning.

This book describes concepts and tools needed for water resources management, including methods for modeling, simulation, optimization, big data analysis, data mining, remote sensing, geographical information system, game theory, conflict resolution, System dynamics, agent-based models, multiobjective, multicriteria, and multiattribute decision making and risk and uncertainty analysis, for better and sustainable management of water resources and consumption, thus mitigating the present and future global water shortage crisis.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the current evolutionary clustering techniques.

This book introduces econometric analysis of cross section, time series and panel data with the application of statistical software.

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.

In this richly illustrated book, Dr Jorma Kyppo explores the history of board games dating back to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China.

This book describes the interplay of mechanics, electronics, electrotechnics, automation and biomechanics.

The present volume contains invited talks of 11th biennial conference on "e;Emerging Mathematical Methods, Models and Algorithms for Science and Technology"e;.

This book covers the latest advances in playful user interfaces - interfaces that invite social and physical interaction.

This book investigates two types of static multi-fidelity surrogates modeling approaches, sequential multi-fidelity surrogates modeling approaches, the multi-fidelity surrogates-assisted efficient global optimization, reliability analysis, robust design optimization, and evolutionary optimization.

This book deals with several types of multi-dimensional control problems in the face of data uncertainty for vector cases-multi-dimensional multi-objective control problem with uncertain objective functionals, uncertain constraint functionals, and uncertain objective as well as constraint functionals, uncertain multi-dimensional multi-objective control problem with semi-infinite constraints, uncertain dual multi-dimensional multi-objective variational control problem, and second-order PDE&PDI constrained robust optimization problem.

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 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.

This book introduces several mathematical models in assembly line balancing based on stochastic programming and develops exact and heuristic methods to solve them.

This volume contains select papers presented during the 4th  National Conference on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization.

This book illuminates the fundamental principle and applications of probability-based multi-objective optimization for material selection systematically, in which a brand new concept of preferable probability and its assessment as well as other treatments are introduced by authors for the first time.

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

This book provides a systematic description about the development of Isogeometric Topology Optimization (ITO) method using the density, and then addresses the effectiveness and efficiency of the ITO method on several design problems, including multi-material structures, stress-minimization structures, piezoelectric structures and also with the uniform manufacturability, ultra-lightweight architected materials with extreme bulk/shear moduli, auxetic metamaterials and auxetic meta-composites with the NPRs behavior in microstructures.

An innovative feature of this book is its econocentric structure, focusing on digital designs.

This book collects chapters on fixed-point theory and fractional calculus and their applications in science and engineering.

Machine learning heavily relies on optimization algorithms to solve its learning models.

This book is devoted to the study of two large classes of discrete-time optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics.

This book stems from lectures that were delivered at the three-week Advanced Instructional School on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems held at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, from 4-23 December 2017, with the support of the National Centre for Mathematics, National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of tax consequences in an oligopolistic market.

This edited volume is an in-depth collation of the usage of different quantitative decision making techniques in practical areas such as lean & green supply chain, reverse logistics, perishable logistics, closed loop supply chain, sustainable project management, retail management, block chain applications, optimal supplier selection problem, demand/supply modelling, forecasting under uncertainties, scheduling & sequencing, resource constraint logistics, dynamic network supply chain, risk evaluation, and so on.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the consecutively held international conferences on "e;Game Theory and Networks"e;, organized by the Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, India, in collaboration with the Economics Department of Queen's University, Belfast, UK, during September 6-9, 2019 and September, 13-15 2018.

This book is one-stop shop which offers essential information one must know and can implement in real-time business expansions to solve engineering problems in various disciplines.

This book collects chapters on contemporary topics on metric fixed point theory and its applications in science, engineering, fractals, and behavioral sciences.

This book addresses remaining life prediction and predictive maintenance of equipment.

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

The book provides a collection of recent applications of nature inspired optimization in industrial fields.

This edited book addresses the challenges in managing the operations and supply chain of organizations in the era of internet of things and Industry 4.

This book is devoted to the study of classes of optimal control problems arising in economic growth theory, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

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 book provides several inventory models for making the right decision in inventory management under different environments.

This book contains international perspectives that unifies the themes of strategic management, decision theory, and data science.

This book gravitates on the prominent theories and recent developments of swarm intelligence methods, and their application in both synthetic and real-world optimization problems.

Small satellite technology is opening up a new era in space exploration offering reduced cost of launch and maintenance, operational flexibility with on-orbit reconfiguration, redundancy etc.

This book includes over 500 most challenging exercises and problems in calculus.

This book presents the latest researches on hypersonic steady glide dynamics and guidance, including the concept of steady glide reentry trajectory and the stability of its regular perturbation solutions, trajectory damping control technique for hypersonic glide reentry, singular perturbation guidance of hypersonic glide reentry, trajectory optimization based on steady glide, linear pseudospectral generalized nominal effort miss distance guidance, analytical entry guidance and trajectory-shaping guidance with final speed and load factor constraints.