Optimization

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.

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.

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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.