Optimization

The book offers a rigorous description of the procedures that proportional representation systems use to translate vote counts into seat numbers.

This volume presents an extensive overview of all major modern trends in applications of probability and stochastic analysis.

A comprehensive development of interpolating control, this monograph demonstrates the reduced computational complexity of a ground-breaking technique compared with the established model predictive control.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2013, held in Fort Worth, TX, USA, in November 2013.

This Brief puts together two subjects, quantum and variational calculi by considering variational problems involving Hahn quantum operators.

This contributed volume focuses on aspects of dynamic game theory including differential games, evolutionary games, and stochastic games.

The analysis of PDEs is a prominent discipline in mathematics research, both in terms of its theoretical aspects and its relevance in applications.

Honoring Andrei Agrachev's 60th birthday, this volume presents recent advances in the interaction between Geometric Control Theory and sub-Riemannian geometry.

This book addresses new questions related to the asymptotic description of converging energies from the standpoint of local minimization and variational evolution.

The purpose of this contributed volume is to provide a primary resource for anyone interested in fixed point theory with a metric flavor.

This title examines the structure of approximate solutions of optimal control problems considered on subintervals of a real line.

This volume presents recent advances in the dynamic field of Artificial Economics and its various applications.

The International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE) provided a timely opportunity to discuss statistical analysis and operations management issues in health care delivery systems.

Two prisoners are told that they will be brought to a room and seated so that each can see the other.

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Tools and methods from complex systems science can have a considerable impact on the way in which the quantitative assessment of economic and financial issues is approached, as discussed in this thesis.

Written by an international group of active researchers in the field, this volume presents innovative formulations and applied procedures for sensitivity analysis and structural design optimization.

This book studies some of the groundbreaking advances that have been made regarding analytic capacity and its relationship to rectifiability in the decade 1995-2005.

With the proliferation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, it is becoming increasingly important for individual SaaS providers to operate their services at a low cost.

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The main interest of this research has been in understanding and characterizing large networks of human interactions as continuously changing objects.

Stability conditions for functional differential equations can be obtained using Lyapunov functionals.

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

The primary goal of this book is to present the research findings and conclusions of physicists, economists, mathematicians and financial engineers working in the field of "e;Econophysics"e; who have undertaken agent-based modelling, comparison with empirical studies and related investigations.

Mechanics have played an important role in mathematics, from infinitesimal calculus, calculus of variations, partial differential equations and numerical methods (finite elements).

The nature and the human creations are full of complex phenomena, which sometimes can be observed but rarely follow our hypotheses.

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

This book presents a novel unified treatment of inverse problems in optimal control and noncooperative dynamic game theory.

Process Plant Operating Procedures presents an introduction to the theory and applications of procedure synthesis that is primarily concerned with the task of conjecturing the sequence of controller (or operator) actions needed to achieve designated operational goals in a given system.

This book includes a thorough theoretical and computational analysis of unconstrained and constrained optimization algorithms and combines and integrates the most recent techniques and advanced computational linear algebra methods.

This book examines the economics of natural resource markets and pricing, as well as the field of natural resource economics in general.

This book presents the latest trends and developments in multimodal optimization and niching techniques.

This book is comprised of the latest research into CSS methods, uses, and results, as presented at the 2020 annual conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA).

By establishing an alternative foundation of control theory, this thesis represents a significant advance in the theory of control systems, of interest to a broad range of scientists and engineers.

The book is devoted to the study of constrained minimization  problems on closed and convex sets in Banach spaces with a Frechet differentiable objective function.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security.

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

Durable strategies that have prolonged effects are prevalent in real-world situations.

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 volume presents extensive research devoted to a broad spectrum of mathematics with emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects of Optimization and Probability.

Water supply- and drainage systems and mixed water channel systems are networks whose high dynamic is determined and/or affected by consumer habits on drinking water on the one hand and by climate conditions, in particular rainfall, on the other hand.

This book presents a selection of advanced case studies that cover a substantial range of issues and real-world challenges and applications in space engineering.

The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in mathematics, computer science, and operational research.

In a unified form, this monograph presents fundamental results on the approximation of centralized and decentralized stochastic control problems, with uncountable state, measurement, and action spaces.

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.