Optimization

This book describes the rapidly developing field of interior point methods (IPMs).

This study is one of the first attempts to bridge the theoretical models of variational dynamics of perfect fluids and some practical approaches worked out in chemical and mechanical engineering in the field newly called thermo-hydrodynamics.

Recent years have been characterized by the increasing amountofpublications in the field ofso-called ill-posed problems.

This work is a revised and enlarged edition of a book with the same title published in Romanian by the Publishing House of the Romanian Academy in 1989.

This volume contains the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e; Frontiers of Chemical Dynamics "e;, held in the Club AIda, Kerner, Turkey, from 5th September to 16th September 1994.

The subject of the present book is sub differential calculus.

Model based control has emerged as an important way to improve plant efficiency in the process industries, while meeting processing and operating policy constraints.

This volume is based on lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Stochastic Games and Applications,"e; which took place at Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 1999.

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The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Algorithms for continuous optimiza- tion: the state of the art"e; was held September 5-18, 1993, at II Ciocco, Barga, Italy.

The IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Nonlinear Stochastic Mechanics, held in Trondheim July 3-7, 1995, was the eighth of a series of IUTAM sponsored symposia which focus on the application of stochastic methods in mechanics.

Biotechnology has been labelled as one of the key technologies of the last two decades of the 20th Century, offering boundless solutions to problems ranging from food and agricultural production to pharmaceutical and medical applications, as well as environmental and bioremediation problems.

The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) initiated and sponsored an International Symposium on Optimization of Mechanical Systems held in 1995 in Stuttgart, Germany.

Mathematical programming has know a spectacular diversification in the last few decades.

Multilevel decision theory arises to resolve the contradiction between increasing requirements towards the process of design, synthesis, control and management of complex systems and the limitation of the power of technical, control, computer and other executive devices, which have to perform actions and to satisfy requirements in real time.

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This book exposes a number of mathematical models for fracture of growing difficulty.

The editors draw on a 3-year project that analyzed a Portuguese area in detail, comparing this study with papers from other regions.

Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars.

In this book Egyptian Archeology and Mathematics meet.

An updated and revised edition of the 1986 title Convexity and Optimization in Banach Spaces, this book provides a self-contained presentation of basic results of the theory of convex sets and functions in infinite-dimensional spaces.

This book develops a whole strategy for decision-making, with the full participation of the decision-maker and utilizing continuous feedback.

Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars.

Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics.

In this book, a risk management approach starts off by discussing important issues related to managing supply chain disruption risks from various perspectives during VUCA times.

This contributed volume presents some of the latest research related to model order reduction of complex dynamical systems with a focus on time-dependent problems.

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.

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

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

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

Variational calculus has been the basis of a variety of powerful methods in the ?

Publication of the Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation marks a milestone in the evolution of the group decision and negotiation (GDN) eld.

Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously revolutionised education, business or the arts.

Critical regimes of two-phase flows with a polydisperse solid phase form the basis of such widespread industrial processes as separation of various powdery materials and minerals dressing.

Not until the recent attacks on transport systems has transport security become a focus of public concern and academic research.

The domain of inverse problems has experienced a rapid expansion, driven by the increase in computing power and the progress in numerical modeling.

Structural optimization is currently attracting considerable attention.

The book originates from the Elliptic PDE course given by the first author at the Scuola Normale Superiore in recent years.

The first part of the book is devoted to the transport equation for a given vector field, exploiting the lagrangian structure of solutions.

These lecture notes are devoted to the analysis of a nonlocal equation in the whole of Euclidean space.

This book presents a series of lectures on three of the best known examples of free discontinuity problems: the Mumford-Shah model for image segmentation, a variational model for the epitaxial growth of thin films, and the sharp interface limit of the Ohta-Kawasaki model for pattern formation in dyblock copolymers.

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This book is the outcome of a conference held at the Centro De Giorgi of the Scuola Normale of Pisa in September 2012.

In this thesis, we study the regularity of optimal transport maps and its applications to the semi-geostrophic system.