Optimization

The book focuses on Social Collective Intelligence, a term used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strengths of humans, machines and collectives in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities with the communication, computing and storage capabilities of advanced ICT.

This book presents the works and research findings of physicists, economists, mathematicians, statisticians, and financial engineers who have undertaken data-driven modelling of market dynamics and other empirical studies in the field of Econophysics.

This book presents recent research developments in social networks, economics, management, marketing and optimization applied to sports.

Computational complexity is a serious bottleneck for the design process in virtually any engineering area.

Very little has been published on optimization of pharmaceutical portfolios.

This proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimization-a multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms.

This brief provides a detailed introduction, discussion and bibliographic review of the nature1-inspired optimization algorithm called Harmony Search.

The book is a benefit for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of operations research, decision theory, optimization theory, linear algebra, interval analysis and fuzzy sets.

The goal of this book is to gather in a single document the most relevant concepts related to modern optimization methods, showing how such concepts and methods can be addressed using the open source, multi-platform R tool.

This book is the first easy-to-read text on nonsmooth optimization (NSO, not necessarily di?

The structure of approximate solutions of autonomous discrete-time optimal control problems and individual turnpike results for optimal control problems without convexity (concavity) assumptions are examined in this book.

This book on PDE Constrained Optimization contains contributions on the mathematical analysis and numerical solution of constrained optimal control and optimization problems where a partial differential equation (PDE) or a system of PDEs appears as an essential part of the constraints.

Initial training in pure and applied sciences tends to present problem-solving as the process of elaborating explicit closed-form solutions from basic principles, and then using these solutions in numerical applications.

This book reflects the state of the art on nonlinear economic dynamics, financial market modelling and quantitative finance.

This book is devoted to the study of dynamical models of decentralized economic systems.

The book contains description of a real life application of modern mathematical optimization tools in an important problem solution for power networks.

This book offers the first comprehensive taxonomy for multimodal optimization algorithms, work with its root in topics such as niching, parallel evolutionary algorithms, and global optimization.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN), held in Toulouse, France, during June 10-13, 2014.

Heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, loosely applicable information to control problem solving.

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2013)"e; which took place at Erasmus University Rotterdam September 3-6, 2013.

Since the 1950s control theory has established itself as a major mathematical discipline, particularly suitable for application in a number of research fields, including advanced engineering design, economics and the medical sciences.

The classical Pontryagin maximum principle (addressed to deterministic finite dimensional control systems) is one of the three milestones in modern control theory.

This book presents mathematical models and numerical simulations of crowd dynamics.

This volume presents significant advances in a number of theories and problems of Mathematical Analysis and its applications in disciplines such as Analytic Inequalities, Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Approximation Theory, Functional Equations, Differential Equations, Wavelets, Discrete Mathematics and Mechanics.

The book is a tribute to the research contribution of Professor Andrei Reinhorn in the field of earthquake engineering.

A persistent problem when finding communities in large complex networks is the so-called resolution limit.

This book presents efficient metaheuristic algorithms for optimal design of structures.

This Brief introduces the wireless spectrum market and discusses the current research for spectrum auctions.

What are Responsible Tourism and Corporate Social Responsibility?

This book demonstrates the use of the optimization techniques that are becoming essential to meet the increasing stringency and variety of requirements for automotive systems.

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 collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science.

This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting.

Optimization problems subject to constraints governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) are among the most challenging problems in the context of industrial, economical and medical applications.

This book results from a long-term research effort aimed at tackling complex non-standard packing issues which arise in space engineering.

Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs.

This volume explores the emerging and current, cutting-edge theories and methods of modeling, optimization, dynamics and bio economy.

The book provides an introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry and optimal transport and presents some of the recent progress in these two fields.

Eurocorridors are characterized by intensive transport flows and dynamic patterns of establishment and household locations.

Analysis, assessment, and data management are core competencies for operation research analysts.

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

In this book, leading experts discuss innovative components of complexity theory and chaos theory in economics.

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshe Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power.

This book presents the basics of linear and nonlinear optimization analysis for both single and multi-objective problems in hydrosystem engineering.

This Brief reviews a number of techniques exploiting the surrogate-based optimization concept and variable-fidelity EM simulations for efficient optimization of antenna structures.

This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production.

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 volume is a collection of articles presented at the Workshop for Nonlinear Analysis held in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, in September 2012.

Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better, and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes.

Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security discusses relevant theoretical frameworks and applications of network analysis in support of the defence and security domains.