Optimization

This book is a compilation of recent research on distributed optimization algorithms for the integral load management of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) fleets and their potential services to the electricity system.

MATRIX is Australia's international, residential mathematical research institute.

This book provides an overview of classical actuarial techniques, including material that is not readily accessible elsewhere such as the Ammeter risk model and the Markov-modulated risk model.

This proceedings book presents selected contributions from the XVIII Congress of APDIO (the Portuguese Association of Operational Research) held in Valenca on June 28-30, 2017.

Presenting a selection of recent developments in geometrical problems inspired by the N-body problem, these lecture notes offer a variety of approaches to study them, ranging from variational to dynamical, while developing new insights, making geometrical and topological detours, and providing historical references.

This book provides a timely overview of fuzzy graph theory, laying the foundation for future applications in a broad range of areas.

This clear and concise textbook provides a rigorous introduction to the calculus of variations, depending on functions of one variable and their first derivatives.

The Proceedings volume contains 16 contributions to the IMPA conference "e;New Trends in Parameter Identification for Mathematical Models"e;, Rio de Janeiro, Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2017, integrating the "e;Chemnitz Symposium on Inverse Problems on Tour"e;.

This basic book has been used at the middle schools in Shanghai, China for more than 10 years.

This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 17th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 12-15, 2016, in Urbino, Italy.

This book presents an introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) which is an emerging field in the area of complex systems attracting the attention of researchers from disparate scientific communities.

This book presents an authoritative collection of contributions reporting on fuzzy logic and decision theory, together with applications and case studies in economics and management science.

This book presents a systematic overview on partition function form games: a game form in cooperative game theory to integrate externalities for various applications.

Focused on the logistics and transportation operations within a supply chain, this book brings together the latest models, algorithms, and optimization possibilities.

This is the third of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing.

This is the second of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing.

This is the first of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing.

This book develops a machine-learning framework for predicting economic growth.

This book is designed as a textbook, suitable for self-learning or for teaching an upper-year university course on derivative-free and blackbox optimization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in October 2017.

This brief examines mathematical models in nonsmooth mechanics and nonregular electrical circuits, including evolution variational inequalities, complementarity systems, differential inclusions, second-order dynamics, Lur'e systems and Moreau's sweeping process.

Researchers and practitioners in computer science, optimization, operations research and mathematics will find this book useful as it illustrates optimization models and solution methods in discrete, non-differentiable, stochastic, and nonlinear optimization.

The volume includes papers from the WSCMO conference in Braunschweig 2017 presenting research of all aspects of the optimal design of structures as well as multidisciplinary design optimization where the involved disciplines deal with the analysis of solids, fluids or other field problems.

This book reviews the state-of-the-art developments in nature-inspired algorithms and their applications in various disciplines, ranging from feature selection and engineering design optimization to scheduling and vehicle routing.

This proceedings volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge related to optimization, decisions science and problem solving methods, as well as their application in industrial and territorial systems.

This volume examines all aspects of using agent or individual-based simulation.

This book focuses on the interpretation of ergodic optimal problems as questions of variational dynamics, employing a comparable approach to that of the Aubry-Mather theory for Lagrangian systems.

This volume contains a selection of contributions that were presented at the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications Conference (MOPTA) held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on August 17-19, 2016.

This book provides a comprehensive and unified introduction to stochastic differential equations and related optimal control problems.

This book presents new efficient methods for optimization in realistic large-scale, multi-agent systems.

This is the first book focusing exclusively on fuzzy dual numbers.

Mathematical treatment to properties of dynamic materials, material substances whose properties are variable in space and time are examined in this book.

Sustainable development within urban and rural areas, transportation systems, logistics, supply chain management, urban health, social services, and architectural design are taken into consideration in the cohesive network models provided in this book.

This textbook treats graph colouring as an algorithmic problem, with a strong emphasis on practical applications.

This book offers a theoretical and computational presentation of a variety of linear programming algorithms and methods with an emphasis on the revised simplex method and its components.

This book develops a new approach called parameter advising for finding a parameter setting for a sequence aligner that yields a quality alignment of a given set of input sequences.

This comprehensive treatment of multivariable calculus focuses on the numerous tools that MATLAB(R) brings to the subject, as it presents introductions to geometry, mathematical physics, and kinematics.

This book provides a basic, initial resource, introducing science and engineering students to the field of optimization.

The book offers an in-depth study of the translation of vote counts into seat numbers in proportional representation systems - an approach guided by practical needs.

This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet Paradox might exist.

This book includes a review of mathematical tools like modelling, analysis of stochastic processes, calculus of variations and stochastic differential equations which are applied to solve financial problems like modern portfolio theory and option pricing.

This volume gathers contributions in the field of partial differential equations, with a focus on mathematical models in phase transitions, complex fluids and thermomechanics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important and frequently considered optimization problems concerning cutting and packing.

This book offers a timely snapshot of current soft-computing research and solutions to decision-making and optimization problems, which are ubiquitous in the current social and technological context, addressing fields including logistics, transportation and data analysis.

This monograph offers the first systematic account of (metric) regularity theory in variational analysis.

This volume provides a unique collection of mathematical tools and industrial case studies in digital manufacturing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 2017.

This is the first book presenting a broad overview of parallelism in constraint-based reasoning formalisms.

Renowned probability theorist Edward O.

Collecting together contributed lectures and mini-courses, this book details the research presented in a special semester titled "e;Geometric mechanics - variational and stochastic methods"e; run in the first half of 2015 at the Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli (CIB) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.