Optimization

Optimization Tools for Logistics covers the theory and practice of the main principles of operational research and the ways it can be applied to logistics and decision support with regards to common software.

This book offers a careful selection of studies in optimization techniques based on artificial intelligence, applied to inverse problems in radiative transfer.

This book covers using R for doing optimization, a key area of operations research, which has been applied to virtually every industry.

This book provides a systematic description about the development of Isogeometric Topology Optimization (ITO) method using the density, and then addresses the effectiveness and efficiency of the ITO method on several design problems, including multi-material structures, stress-minimization structures, piezoelectric structures and also with the uniform manufacturability, ultra-lightweight architected materials with extreme bulk/shear moduli, auxetic metamaterials and auxetic meta-composites with the NPRs behavior in microstructures.

Structured Controllers for Uncertain Systems focuses on the development of easy-to-use design strategies for robust low-order or fixed-structure controllers (particularly the industrially ubiquitous PID controller).

The implicit function theorem is one of the most important theorems in analysis and its many variants are basic tools in partial differential equations and numerical analysis.

Featuring original research from well-known experts in the field of sliding mode control, this monograph presents new design schemes for implementing LQ control solutions in situations where the output system is the only information provided about the state of the plant.

This book deals with dynamic and stochastic methods for multi-project planning.

The story of one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematicsWhat is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin?

This monograph describes a new family of algorithms for the simultaneous localization and mapping problem in robotics (SLAM).

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This book analyzes coalitional control schemes by incorporating concepts of cooperative game theory into a distributed control framework.

Designs in nanoelectronics often lead to challenging simulation problems and include strong feedback couplings.

The book is devoted to intelligent design of structures as a novel kind of designing based on computational intelligence.

Rave reviews for INTEGER AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION "e;This book provides an excellent introduction and survey of traditional fields of combinatorial optimization .

The main purpose of the book is to give a rigorous introduction to the most important and useful solution methods of various types of stochastic control problems for jump diffusions and their applications.

This book brings together research articles and state-of-the-art surveys in broad areas of optimization and numerical analysis with particular emphasis on algorithms.

The BIRS Workshop "e;Advances in Interactive Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Complex and Big Data Sets"e; (15w2181), held in July 2015 in Banff, Canada, was dedicated to stimulating a cross-domain integrative machine-learning approach and appraisal of "e;hot topics"e; toward tackling the grand challenge of reaching a level of useful and useable computational intelligence with a focus on real-world problems, such as in the health domain.

Weaving the author's own lived experience with theoretical insights from the fields of game studies, psychology, and anthropology, Esport Play probes and advances current gaming topics such as addiction, skill development, and toxicity.

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2014)"e;, which took place at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, September 2-5, 2014.

It was more than a surprise to us that the first edition of this book already went out of print about a year after its first appearance.

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As public awareness of social and environmental issues grew, more consumers began to support firms committed to developing and operating environmentally sustainable and socially responsible supply chains.

This book consists of contributions from experts, presenting a fruitful interplay between different approaches to discrete geometry.

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.

This monograph explores the early development of the calculus of variations in continental Europe during the Eighteenth Century by illustrating the mathematics of its founders.

A substantial portion of this book is a revised version of Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis (1993), which was written by the first author and received the 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize, awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for best control engineering textbook.

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.

Many questions dealing with solvability, stability and solution methods for va- ational inequalities or equilibrium, optimization and complementarity problems lead to the analysis of certain (perturbed) equations.

Combining two important and growing areas of applied mathematics-control theory and modeling-this textbook introduces and builds on methods for simulating and tackling concrete problems in a variety of applied sciences.

This volume contains selected papers presented at the "e;International Workshop on Computationally Intensive Methods in Simulation and Op- th th timization"e; held from 23 to 25 August 1990 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (nASA) in La~enburg, Austria.

Semidefinite programming has been described as linear programming for the year 2000.

This book contains the proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, ECMI2012, held in Lund, Sweden, July 2012, at which ECMI celebrated its 25th anniversary.

This book addresses the analysis of functions of a real variable and transitions from the standard calculus sequence to mathematical analysis.

This book, like its companion volume Nonlinear Optimization with Financial Applications, is an outgrowth of undergraduate and po- graduate courses given at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Bergamo.

This book presents recent developments in modelling and optimization of engineering systems and the use of advanced mathematical methods for solving complex real-world problems.

Combinational optimization (CO) is a topic in applied mathematics, decision science and computer science that consists of finding the best solution from a non-exhaustive search.

This book focuses on the design and application of advanced trajectory optimization and guidance and control (G&C) techniques for aerospace vehicles.

The primary aim of this book is to present notions of convex analysis which constitute the basic underlying structure of argumentation in economic theory and which are common to optimization problems encountered in many applications.

Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented.

Mathematics of Tabletop Games provides a bridge between mathematics and hobby tabletop gaming.

This volume reflects the 'philosophy of science in practice' approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research.

Few people outside of mathematics are aware of the varieties of mathemat- ical experience - the degree to which different mathematical subjects have different and distinctive flavors, often attractive to some mathematicians and repellant to others.

This book collects original research papers and survey articles presented at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Pure and Applied Mathematics (ICRAPAM), held at Delhi Technological University, India, on 23-25 October 2018.

Primary Audience for the Book * Specialists in numerical computations who are interested in algorithms with automatic result verification.

The Gradient Test: Another Likelihood-Based Test presents the latest on the gradient test, a large-sample test that was introduced in statistics literature by George R.

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