Optimization

This book addresses mathematics in a wide variety of applications, ranging from problems in electronics, energy and the environment, to mechanics and mechatronics.

This book addresses mathematics in a wide variety of applications, ranging from problems in electronics, energy and the environment, to mechanics and mechatronics.

This book presents the mathematical theory of vector variational inequalities and their relations with vector optimization problems.

This book provides a practice-driven, yet rigorous approach to executive management decision-making that performs well even under unpredictable conditions.

This book focuses on the game-theoretical semantics and epistemic logic of Jaakko Hintikka.

This book offers a case-study approach to stakeholder theory that moves beyond theoretical analysis to the applied.

The main goal of this book is to show how to modify and optimize the properties of the damping matrix in order to find the most beneficial way of adding damping to a given mechanical system.

This is the companion workbook for the textbook Principles of Microeconomics.

This edited monograph contains research contributions on a wide range of topics such as stochastic control systems, adaptive control, sliding mode control and parameter identification methods.

This book offers a timely snapshot of soft computing methodologies and their applications to various problems related to sustainability, including electric energy consumption; fault diagnosis; vessel fuel consumption; determining the best sites for new malls; maritime port projects; and ad-hoc vehicular networks.

This unique book describes how the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) can be used to solve various power system operation and planning optimization problems.

This book collects a series of contributions addressing the various contexts in which the theory of Lie groups is applied.

This book demonstrates what kind of problems, originating in a management accounting setting, may be solved with game theoretic models.

This book discusses the state-of-the-art and open problems in computational finance.

This book both analyzes and synthesizes new cutting-edge theories and methods for future design implementations in smart cities through interdisciplinary synergizing of architecture, technology, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

This textbook, the first of its kind, presents the fundamentals of distance geometry:  theory, useful methodologies for obtaining solutions, and real world applications.

This book presents the econometric foundations and applications of multi-dimensional panels, including modern methods of big data analysis.

Focusing on applications to science and engineering, this book presents the results of the ITN-FP7 SADCO network's innovative research in optimization and control in the following interconnected topics: optimality conditions in optimal control, dynamic programming approaches to optimal feedback synthesis and reachability analysis, and computational developments in model predictive control.

This book introduces an efficient resource management approach for future spectrum sharing systems.

This monograph studies multi-member households or, more generally, socio-economic groups from a purely theoretical perspective and within a general equilibrium framework, in contrast to a sizeable empirical literature.

This book presents the theory and practical applications of the Master equation approach, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of disciplines.

This book explores the theoretical foundations of co-utility as well as its application to a number of areas, including distributed reputation management, anonymous keyword search, collaborative data anonymization, digital oblivion, peer-to-peer (P2P) content distribution, ridesharing for sustainable mobility, environmental economy, business model design and the collaborative economy.

This textbook offers a unique approach to macroeconomic theory built on microeconomic foundations of monetary macroeconomics within a unified framework of an intertemporal general equilibrium model extended to a sequential and dynamic analysis.

This textbook presents a rigorous approach to multivariable calculus in the context of model building and optimization problems.

This book presents new optimization approaches and methods and their application in real-world and industrial problems, and demonstrates how many of the problems arising in engineering, economics and other domains can be formulated as optimization problems.

This book provides an introduction to PDE-constrained optimisation using finite elements and the adjoint approach.

This two-volume book offers a comprehensive treatment of the probabilistic approach to mean field game models and their applications.

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This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics or computer science, as a tool for solving real-world design problems.

This book covers some important topics in the construction of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and examines use of these models for the analysis of economic policies, their properties, and their implications.

This book features mathematical and formal philosophers' efforts to understand philosophical questions using mathematical techniques.

This book presents the theoretical details and computational performances of algorithms used for solving continuous nonlinear optimization applications imbedded in GAMS.

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Mathematics.

This book promotes and describes the application of objective and effective decision making in asset management based on mathematical models and practical techniques that can be easily implemented in organizations.

This book on canonical duality theory provides a comprehensive review of its philosophical origin, physics foundation, and mathematical statements in both finite- and infinite-dimensional spaces.

This text provides a comprehensive and unique introduction to modern microeconomics.

This textbook covers the fundamentals of optimization, including linear, mixed-integer linear, nonlinear, and dynamic optimization techniques, with a clear engineering focus.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to cooperative game theory and a practice-oriented reference guide to new models and tools for studying bilateral fuzzy relations among several agents or players.

This two-volume book offers a comprehensive treatment of the probabilistic approach to mean field game models and their applications.

This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations.

This book is a collection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at the 27th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in June/July 2015.

This edited volume includes thoroughly collected on sensing and control for autonomous vehicles.

The concepts and techniques presented in this volume originated from the fields of dynamics, statistics, control theory, computer science and informatics, and are applied to novel and innovative real-world applications.

Collating different aspects of Vector-valued Partial Differential Equations and Applications, this volume is based on the 2013 CIME Course with the same name which took place at Cetraro, Italy, under the scientific direction of John Ball and Paolo Marcellini.

This book focuses on the fields of fuzzy logic, bio-inspired algorithm; especially bee colony optimization algorithm and also considering the fuzzy control area.

This book presents high-quality original contributions on positive systems, including topics such as: monotone dynamical systems in mathematical biology and game theory; mathematical developments for networked systems in biology, chemistry and the social sciences; linear and nonlinear positive operators; dynamical analysis, observation and control of positive distributed parameter systems; stochastic realization theory; biological systems with positive variables and positive controls; iterated function systems; nonnegative dynamic processes; and dimensioning problems for collaborative systems.

Consisting of two parts, the first part of this volume is an essentially self-contained exposition of the geometric aspects of local and global regularity theory for the Monge-Ampere and linearized Monge-Ampere equations.

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses.

This revised edition is made up of two parts: theory and applications.

This book focuses on optimal control and systems engineering in the big data era.