Optimization

This book is a masterful unification of disparate fields and lessons from nature and derives comprehensible and realistic design principles.

This book describes the latest advances in the theory of mean field games, which are optimal control problems with a continuum of players, each of them interacting with the whole statistical distribution of a population.

This book discusses stochastic game theory and related concepts.

This volume provides a broad and uniform introduction of PDE-constrained optimization as well as to document a number of interesting and challenging applications.

The Gradient Test: Another Likelihood-Based Test presents the latest on the gradient test, a large-sample test that was introduced in statistics literature by George R.

Fractional evolution inclusions are an important form of differential inclusions within nonlinear mathematical analysis.

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

'Optimization Day' (OD) has been a series of annual mini-conferences in Aus- tralia since 1994.

This book introduces readers to basic game theory as a tool to deal with strategic decision problems, helping them to understand the complexity of such problems - to extract a solution, if possible - and to manage the complexity by revising the game if appropriate.

This monograph studies optimization problems for rigid punches in elastic media and for high-speed penetration of rigid strikers into deformed elastoplastic, concrete, and composite media using variational calculations, tools from functional analysis, and stochastic and min-max (guaranteed) optimization approaches with incomplete data.

This book provides a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching.

This book addresses the interplay between stochastic processes and partial differential equations.

This textbook introduces readers to a comprehensive framework for the application of deterministic optimization strategies in the field of chemical processes, with a strong emphasis on sustainability.

This book provides different approaches used to analyze, draw attention, and provide an understanding of the advancements in the optimization field across the globe.

This book describes concepts and tools needed for water resources management, including methods for modeling, simulation, optimization, big data analysis, data mining, remote sensing, geographical information system, game theory, conflict resolution, System dynamics, agent-based models, multiobjective, multicriteria, and multiattribute decision making and risk and uncertainty analysis, for better and sustainable management of water resources and consumption, thus mitigating the present and future global water shortage crisis.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of stability, stabilization, and fault detection in networked control systems, with a focus on unmanned marine vehicles.

This book presents open optimization problems in graph theory and networks.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2019), which was held at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, on September 4-6, 2019, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) the Austrian Operations Research Society (OGOR), and the Swiss Operational Research Society (SOR/ASRO).

In the mathematical treatment of many problems which arise in physics, economics, engineering, management, etc.

Based on the "e;Fourth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; (Kalamata, Greece, July 2019), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on natural and unnatural disasters.

This book introduces new concepts for cooperative game theory, and particularly solutions that determine the distribution of a coalitional surplus among the members of the coalition.

This volume consists of chapters written by eminent scientists and engineers from the international community and present significant advances in several theories, methods and applications of an interdisciplinary research.

Continuous-time Markov decision processes (MDPs), also known as controlled Markov chains, are used for modeling decision-making problems that arise in operations research (for instance, inventory, manufacturing, and queueing systems), computer science, communications engineering, control of populations (such as fisheries and epidemics), and management science, among many other fields.

This book features selected papers from The Seventh International Conference on Research and Education in Mathematics that was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 25 - 27th August 2015.

This book covers microeconomic theory at the Master's and Ph.

This book contains selected papers presented at ICGEC 2021, the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, held from October 21-23, 2021 in Jilin City, China.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between fractals and graph theory, two powerful mathematical tools with vast applications.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2022), which was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, on September 6-9, 2022.

Integrates theory, algorithms, modeling, and computer implementation while solved examples show realistic engineering optimization problems.

Dieses Buch stellt die ideale Ergänzung zum Lehrbuch „Mathematik für BWL-Bachelor“ dar.

This textbook, the first of its kind, presents the fundamentals of distance geometry:  theory, useful methodologies for obtaining solutions, and real world applications.

This textbook presents key concepts and algorithms available for solving design optimization problems, with simple examples to demonstrate.

This book contains the contributions resulting from the 6th Italian-Japanese workshop on Geometric Properties for Parabolic and Elliptic PDEs, which was held in Cortona (Italy) during the week of May 20-24, 2019.

Efficiency and productivity improvement are imperative for businesses to remain competitive in an increasingly dynamic marketplace.

Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications presents flexible and cost-effective maintenance schedules for aircraft structures, particular in composite airframes.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita can predict the future.

Renowned probability theorist Edward O.

"e;Optimal Observation for Cyber-physical Systems"e; addresses the challenge, fundamental to the design of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), presented by the obligatory trade-off between precise estimates and system constraints.

This textbook presents the basics of game theory both on an undergraduate level and on a more advanced mathematical level.

If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, futbol, fitba, and futebol.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2024, held in Omsk, Russia, during June 30 - July 6, 2024.

The book presents selected papers from International Conference on Multi-Strategy Learning Environment (ICMSLE 2024), held at Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India, during 12-13 January 2024.

This self-contained work is an introductory presentation of basic ideas, structures, and results of differential and integral calculus for functions of several variables.