Optimization

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 comprehensive treatment of multivariable calculus focuses on the numerous tools that MATLAB(R) brings to the subject, as it presents introductions to geometry, mathematical physics, and kinematics.

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 book offers a timely snapshot of current soft-computing research and solutions to decision-making and optimization problems, which are ubiquitous in the current social and technological context, addressing fields including logistics, transportation and data analysis.

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 is the companion workbook for the textbook Principles of Microeconomics.

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.

This book both analyzes and synthesizes new cutting-edge theories and methods for future design implementations in smart cities through interdisciplinary synergizing of architecture, technology, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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

This book presents the econometric foundations and applications of multi-dimensional panels, including modern methods of big data analysis.

Focusing on applications to science and engineering, this book presents the results of the ITN-FP7 SADCO network's innovative research in optimization and control in the following interconnected topics: optimality conditions in optimal control, dynamic programming approaches to optimal feedback synthesis and reachability analysis, and computational developments in model predictive control.

This book introduces an efficient resource management approach for future spectrum sharing systems.

This monograph studies multi-member households or, more generally, socio-economic groups from a purely theoretical perspective and within a general equilibrium framework, in contrast to a sizeable empirical literature.

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 book explores the theoretical foundations of co-utility as well as its application to a number of areas, including distributed reputation management, anonymous keyword search, collaborative data anonymization, digital oblivion, peer-to-peer (P2P) content distribution, ridesharing for sustainable mobility, environmental economy, business model design and the collaborative economy.

This textbook offers a unique approach to macroeconomic theory built on microeconomic foundations of monetary macroeconomics within a unified framework of an intertemporal general equilibrium model extended to a sequential and dynamic analysis.

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

This book presents new optimization approaches and methods and their application in real-world and industrial problems, and demonstrates how many of the problems arising in engineering, economics and other domains can be formulated as optimization problems.

This book provides an introduction to PDE-constrained optimisation using finite elements and the adjoint approach.

This two-volume book offers a comprehensive treatment of the probabilistic approach to mean field game models and their applications.

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This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics or computer science, as a tool for solving real-world design problems.

This book covers some important topics in the construction of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and examines use of these models for the analysis of economic policies, their properties, and their implications.

This book features mathematical and formal philosophers' efforts to understand philosophical questions using mathematical techniques.

This book presents the theoretical details and computational performances of algorithms used for solving continuous nonlinear optimization applications imbedded in GAMS.

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Mathematics.

This book promotes and describes the application of objective and effective decision making in asset management based on mathematical models and practical techniques that can be easily implemented in organizations.

This book on canonical duality theory provides a comprehensive review of its philosophical origin, physics foundation, and mathematical statements in both finite- and infinite-dimensional spaces.