Optimization

This book illustrates the development of Brownian ratchets, from their foundations to their role in molecular-scale life and in artificial nano-machinery.

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The book contains two contributions about the work of Emmanuele DiBenedetto and a selection of original papers.

  This book gathers the most essential results, including recent ones, on linear-quadratic optimal control problems, which represent an important aspect of stochastic control.

This book provides the fundamental theory of distributed optimization, game and learning.

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The point of departure in the present book is that the decision makers, involved in the evaluation of alternatives under conflicting criteria, express their preferential judgement by estimating ratios of subjective values or differences of the corresponding logarithms, the so-called grades.

This book addresses remaining life prediction and predictive maintenance of equipment.

This book presents comprehensive state-of-the-art theoretical analysis of the fundamental Newtonian and Newtonian-related approaches to solving optimization and variational problems.

This book is a new contribution aiming to give some last research findings in the field of optimization and computing.

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This monograph explores the motion of incompressible fluids by presenting and incorporating various boundary conditions possible for real phenomena.

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Dieses Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Theorie und Methoden der stetigen Optimierung mit einigen Anwendungen auch im Bereich der diskreten Optimierung.

This book focuses on the vector Allen-Cahn equation, which models coexistence of three or more phases and is related to Plateau complexes - non-orientable objects with a stratified structure.

This book gathers the contributions of the international conference "e;Optimization and Decision Science"e; (ODS2018), which was held at the Hotel Villa Diodoro, Taormina (Messina), Italy on September 10 to 13, 2018, and was organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society, in cooperation with the DMI (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) of the University of Catania (Italy).

The book aims at disclosing a fascinating connection between optimal stoppingproblems in probability and free-boundary problems in analysis using minimal toolsand focusing on key examples.

"e;Constructive Computation in Stochastic Models with Applications: The RG-Factorizations"e; provides a unified, constructive and algorithmic framework for numerical computation of many practical stochastic systems.

On February 27 and 28 of 2006, the University of Arizona held a workshop entitled, "e;Decision Modeling and Behavior in Uncertain and Complex En- ronments,"e; sponsored by the Air Force O?

This authored monograph presents an unconventional approach to an important topic in economic theory.

This edited book addresses the challenges in managing the operations and supply chain of organizations in the era of internet of things and Industry 4.

This book brings together cutting-edge research, methodologies, and applications in the field of optimization and nature-inspired computing, providing a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements and their applications in addressing contemporary challenges in engineering.

Many of the most challenging problems in the applied sciences involve non-differentiable structures as well as partial differential operators, thus leading to non-smooth distributed parameter systems.

This book explores the extremely modular systems that meet two criteria: they allow the creation of structurally sound free-form structures, and they are comprised of as few types of modules as possible.

A groundbreaking new synthesis and theory of social institutionsUnderstanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic.

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.

The complexity of issues requiring rational decision making grows and thus such decisions are becoming more and more difficult, despite advances in methodology and tools for decision support and in other areas of research.

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods.

Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation is a practical guide to experimentation in a field which has long been underpinned by suppositions, assumptions, speculations and beliefs.

This book gives a detailed information of various real-life applications from various fields using nature inspired optimization techniques.

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 self-contained book describes social influence from a computational point of view, with a focus on recent and practical applications, models, algorithms and open topics for future research.

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At a practical level, mathematical programming under multiple objectives has emerged as a powerful tool to assist in the process of searching for decisions which best satisfy a multitude of conflicting objectives, and there are a number of distinct methodologies for multicriteria decision-making problems that exist.

This book, published in honor of Professor Laurent Praly on the occasion of his 65th birthday, explores the responses of some leading international authorities to new challenges in nonlinear and adaptive control.

This book systematically discusses nonlinear interval optimization design theory and methods.

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.

Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization has un- questionably been established as one of the most important areas of research in the military sciences.

One of the major contemporary challenges in both physical and social sciences is modeling, analyzing, and understanding the self-organization, evolution, behavior, and eventual decay of complex dynamical systems ranging from cell assemblies to the human brain to animal societies.

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This book critically discusses the historical backgrounds and new developments of the theories of games, decisions, and markets, with many possible applications to social and economic problems.

This book provides models and methods for the optimal management of electrical vehicles through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together knowledge from the sectors of transportation, manufacturing and smart grids.

The main aim of this book is to present several results related to functions of unitary operators on complex Hilbert spaces obtained, by the author in a sequence of recent research papers.

Homogenization is a method for modeling processes in microinhomogeneous media, which are encountered in radiophysics, filtration theory, rheology, elasticity theory, and other domains of mechanics, physics, and technology.

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