Optimization

This book shows clearly how the study of concrete control systems has motivated the development of the mathematical tools needed for solving such problems.

This monograph derives from familiar economic principles the dynamics of national income, the interest rate, employment, the value of capital stock, prices, and the cumulative balance of payments.

Mathematical control theory has evolved from the study of practical problems in engineering and sciences to the elaboration of deep, important concepts in mathematics and applied sciences.

This volume gives the latest advances in optimization and optimal control which are the main part of applied mathematics.

This is a book for those who want to understand the main ideas in the theory of optimal problems.

This book presents a development of the frequency-domain approach to the stability study of stationary sets of systems with discontinuous nonlinearities.

We have witnessed in recent years a revival of Conjectural Variations in Game Theory.

The theory of adaptive control is concerned with construction of strategies so that the controlled system behaves in a desirable way, without assuming the complete knowledge of the system.

Self-contained and unified in presentation, this invaluable book provides a broad introduction to the fascinating subject of many-body collective systems with adapting and evolving agents.

In 1984, Robert Axelrod published a book, relating the story of two competitions which he ran, where invited academics entered strategies for the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma.

Geometry, Language and Strategy is a way of looking at game theory or strategic decision-making from a scientific perspective, using standard equations from the fields of engineering and physics.

Computational optimization methods have matured over the last few years due to extensive research by applied mathematicians and engineers.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the authors' pioneering contributions to nonlinear set-valued analysis by topological methods.

Xunjing Li (1935-2003) was a pioneer in control theory in China.

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

The aim of this volume is to provide a synthetic account of past research, to give an up-to-date guide to current intertwined developments of control theory and nonsmooth analysis, and also to point to future research directions.

This edited book presents recent developments and state-of-the-art review in various areas of mathematical programming and game theory.

This book brings together the joint work of Drew Fudenberg and David Levine (through 2008) on the closely connected topics of repeated games and reputation effects, along with related papers on more general issues in game theory and dynamic games.

This book presents a systematic approach to problems in economic equilibrium based on fixed-point arguments and rigorous set-theoretical (axiomatic) methods.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive survey of models of dynamic games in economics, including an extensive coverage of numerous fields of applications.

This book primarily focuses on the domain conditions under which a number of important classes of binary social decision rules give rise to rational social preferences.

New Trends in Control Theory is a graduate-level monographic textbook.

This book introduces new concepts for cooperative game theory, and particularly solutions that determine the distribution of a coalitional surplus among the members of the coalition.

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

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

This volume collects almost two decades of joint work of Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell on game dynamics and equilibria.

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

This book focuses primarily on the nature-inspired approach for designing smart applications.

This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which is of paramount importance in the aftermath of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

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.