Optimization

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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.