Optimization

This book provides an introduction to the models, methods, and results of some due date-related scheduling problems in the field of multiagent scheduling.

This book provides a contemporary treatment of quantitative economics, with a focus on data science.

This book introduces research presented at the "e;International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Applications-2019 (ICAIAA 2019),"e; a two-day conference and workshop bringing together leading academicians, researchers as well as students to share their experiences and findings on all aspects of engineering applications of artificial intelligence.

This book discusses one of the major applications of artificial intelligence: the use of machine learning to extract useful information from multimodal data.

This book discusses a variety of topics related to industrial and applied mathematics, focusing on wavelet theory, sampling theorems, inverse problems and their applications, partial differential equations as a model of real-world problems, computational linguistics, mathematical models and methods for meteorology, earth systems, environmental and medical science, and the oil industry.

This book discusses unconstrained optimization with R-a free, open-source computing environment, which works on several platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the ranking methods for interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, multi-criteria decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, and group decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations.

This edited book focuses on non-classical logics and their applications, highlighting the rapid advances and the new perspectives that are emerging in this area.

The book discusses advantages of the firefly algorithm over other well-known metaheuristic algorithms in various engineering studies.

This book reviews the literature on hand posture estimation using generative methods, identifying the current gaps, such as sensitivity to hand shapes, sensitivity to a good initial posture, difficult hand posture recovery in cases of loss in tracking, and lack of addressing multiple objectives to maximize accuracy and minimize computational cost.

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.

This book collects the latest theoretical and technological concepts in the design and control of various linear machines and drive systems.

This book explores various renewal processes in the context of probability theory, uncertainty theory and chance theory.

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

This book focuses on the design of decentralized optimization methods applied to charging strategies for large-scale PEVs in electrical power systems.

Society has developed so that it accommodates the needs of intertwined people, but a question arises as to which people have been accommodated.

This book proposes, for the first time, a basic formulation for structural control that takes into account the stochastic dynamics induced by engineering excitations in the nature of non-stationary and non-Gaussian processes.

This book develops the concepts of various unique optimization techniques in the crisp and fuzzy environment.

This book is based on the authors' research on the stabilization and fault-tolerant control of batch processes, which are flourishing topics in the field of control system engineering.

This book presents the latest techniques for machine learning based data analytics on IoT edge devices.

This book discusses recent developments in mathematical programming and game theory, and the application of several mathematical models to problems in finance, games, economics and graph theory.

Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.

This book introduces readers to the background, general framework, main operators, and other basic characteristics of biogeography-based optimization (BBO), which is an emerging branch of bio-inspired computation.

Safe and high-efficiency operation are two main issues in rail transportation.

This book addresses higher-lower level decision autonomy for autonomous vehicles, and discusses the addition of a novel architecture to cover both levels.

This book introduces the theory and applications of uncertain optimal control, and establishes two types of models including expected value uncertain optimal control and optimistic value uncertain optimal control.

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the asymptotic behavior of dynamic monopolies, duopolies, and oligopolies where firms face information and implementation delays.

This book brings together the latest findings on efficient solutions of multi/many-objective optimization problems from the leading researchers in the field.

This book discusses systematic designs of stable adaptive fuzzy logic controllers employing hybridizations of Lyapunov strategy-based approaches/Hinfinity theory-based approaches and contemporary stochastic optimization techniques.

This book reports on the latest advances in adaptive critic control with robust stabilization for uncertain nonlinear systems.

This book primarily addresses various game theory phenomena in the context of management practice.

This book discusses a variety of topics related to industrial and applied mathematics, focusing on wavelet theory, sampling theorems, inverse problems and their applications, partial differential equations as a model of real-world problems, computational linguistics, mathematical models and methods for meteorology, earth systems, environmental and medical science, and the oil industry.

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.