Optimization

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 provides an overview of the concept of economic psychology from behavioral and mathematical perspectives and related theoretical and empirical findings.

This book develops the central aspect of fixed point theory - the topological fixed point index - to maximal generality, emphasizing correspondences and other aspects of the theory that are of special interest to economics.

This book covers various topics regarding the design of compliant mechanisms using topology optimization that have attracted a great deal of attention in recent decades.

This monograph introduces the authors' work on model predictive control system design using extended state space and extended non-minimal state space approaches.

This book covers microeconomic theory at the Master's and Ph.

The book presents a set of novel, efficient and systematic concurrent multiscale optimization methods by considering the distribution of the material in macro-scale and the unit-cell configuration design in micro-scale simultaneously.

This is a collection of recent novel contributions in game theory from a group of prominent authors in the field.

Ship optimization design is critical to the preliminary design of a ship.

Noisy optimization is a topic of growing interest for researchers working on mainstream optimization problems.

This book presents state-of-the-art research advances in the field of biologically inspired cooperative control theories and their applications.

As the sequel to the proceedings of the International Conference of Continuum Mechanics Focusing on Singularities (CoMFoS15), the proceedings of CoMFoS16 present further advances and new topics in mathematical theory and numerical simulations related to various aspects of continuum mechanics.

This book presents a smooth and unified transitional framework from generalised fractional programming, with a finite number of variables and a finite number of constraints, to semi-infinite fractional programming, where a number of variables are finite but with infinite constraints.

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

The book discusses three classes of problems: the generalized Nash equilibrium problems, the bilevel problems and the mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints  (MPEC).

This book presents the topology optimization theory for laminar flows with low and moderate Reynolds numbers, based on the density method and level-set method, respectively.

This book presents the latest research advances in complex network structure analytics based on computational intelligence (CI) approaches, particularly evolutionary optimization.

This book presents a variety of advanced research papers in optimization and dynamics written by internationally recognized researchers in these fields.

This volume is the outcome of deliberations on formal methods in aerospace.

The book discusses essential topics in industrial and applied mathematics such as image processing with a special focus on medical imaging, biometrics and tomography.

This self-contained textbook discusses all major topics in functional analysis.

This book introduces a new paradigm called 'Optimization in Changeable Spaces' (OCS) as a useful tool for decision making and problem solving.

This book explores the extremely modular systems that meet two criteria: they allow the creation of structurally sound free-form structures, and they are comprised of as few types of modules as possible.

This book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17-25 July 2015.

This book features selected papers from The Seventh International Conference on Research and Education in Mathematics that was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 25 - 27th August 2015.

This monograph represents a historic breakthrough in the field of linear programming (LP)since George Dantzig first discovered the simplex method in 1947.

This book presents conventions, mathematical concepts, definitions and applications central to the geometric modeling of solids, shells and wires (engineering jargon) embedded in 3D space.

Mean field approximation has been adopted to describe macroscopic phenomena from microscopic overviews.

The aim of the present book is to give a systematic treatment of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, i.

The book is devoted to recent research in the global variational theory on smooth manifolds.

Many complex aeronautical design problems can be formulated with efficient multi-objective evolutionary optimization methods and game strategies.

The Management of Industrial Forest Plantations.

Measurement plays a fundamental role both in physical and behavioral sciences, as well as in engineering and technology: it is the link between abstract models and empirical reality and is a privileged method of gathering information from the real world.

Starting with a simple formulation accessible to all mathematicians, this second edition is designed to provide a thorough introduction to nonstandard analysis.

The main purpose of this work is construction of the mathematical theory of elastic plates and shells, by means of which the investigation of basic boundary value problems of the spatial theory of elasticity in the case of cylindrical do- mains reduces to the study of two-dimensional boundary value problems (BVP) of comparatively simple structure.

Stochastic programming - the science that provides us with tools to design and control stochastic systems with the aid of mathematical programming techniques - lies at the intersection of statistics and mathematical programming.

From 12 to 14 September 2002, the Academy of Humanities and Economics (AHE) hosted the workshop "e;Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism"e;.

The aim of this book is to present the mathematical theory and the know-how to make computer programs for the numerical approximation of Optimal Control of PDE's.

Non-Additive Measure and Integral is the first systematic approach to the subject.

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This monograph covers one of the divisions of mathematical theory of control which examines moving objects functionating under conflict and uncertainty conditions.

Beginning with the works of N.

Many books on optimization consider only finite dimensional spaces.

In this book a general topological construction of extension is proposed for problems of attainability in topological spaces under perturbation of a system of constraints.

This book supplements the textbook of the authors"e; Lectures on Graph The- ory"e; [6] by more than thousand exercises of varying complexity.

In this monograph, questions of extensions and relaxations are consid- ered.

In the last decade several international conferences on Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton geometries were organized in Braov, Romania (1994), Seattle, USA (1995), Edmonton, Canada (1998), besides the Seminars that periodically are held in Japan and Romania.