Optimization

This book presents an introduction to variational analysis, a field which unifies theories and techniques developed in calculus of variations, optimization, and control, and covers convex analysis, nonsmooth analysis, and set-valued analysis.

This volume highlights recent advances in data science, including image processing and enhancement on large data, shape analysis and geometry processing in 2D/3D, exploration and understanding of neural networks, and extensions to atypical data types such as social and biological signals.

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

Many of the most challenging problems in the applied sciences involve non-differentiable structures as well as partial differential operators, thus leading to non-smooth distributed parameter systems.

The book begins with an introduction to software reliability, models and techniques.

This book is devoted to a detailed study of the subgradient projection method and its variants for convex optimization problems over the solution sets of common fixed point problems and convex feasibility problems.

This book presents techniques for determining uncertainties in numerical solutions with applications in the fields of business administration, civil engineering, and economics, using Excel as a computational tool.

This book contains the most recent progress in data assimilation in meteorology, oceanography and hydrology including land surface.

This is a book on optimal control problems (OCPs) for partial differential equations (PDEs) that evolved from a series of courses taught by the authors in the last few years at Politecnico di Milano, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

This monograph explores the motion of incompressible fluids by presenting and incorporating various boundary conditions possible for real phenomena.

In this book, the theory, methods and applications of separable optimization are considered.

This book, following the three published volumes of the book, provides the main purpose to collect research papers and review papers to provide an overview of the main issues, results, and open questions in the cutting-edge research on the fields of modeling, optimization, and dynamics and their applications to biology, economy, energy, industry, physics, psychology and finance.

This volume features recent development and techniques in evolution equations by renown experts in the field.

The focus of these conference proceedings is on research, development, and applications in the fields of numerical geometry, scientific computing and numerical simulation, particularly in mesh generation and related problems.

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

This richly illustrated book introduces the subject of optimization to a broad audience with a balanced treatment of theory, models and algorithms.

This textbook provides an introduction to the use and understanding of optimization and modeling for upper-level undergraduate students in engineering and mathematics.

The book contains two contributions about the work of Emmanuele DiBenedetto and a selection of original papers.

This book dives into radio resource allocation optimizations, a research area for wireless communications, in a pragmatic way and not only includes wireless channel conditions but also incorporates the channel in a simple and practical fashion via well-understood equations.

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.

This book presents a structured approach to formulate, model, and solve mathematical optimization problems for a wide range of real world situations.

This book, published in honor of Professor Laurent Praly on the occasion of his 65th birthday, explores the responses of some leading international authorities to new challenges in nonlinear and adaptive control.

This text is an enhanced, English version of the Russian edition, published in early 2021 and is appropriate for an introductory course in geometric control theory.

There are three fundamental components in Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) enforcement.

This contributed volume presents some of the latest research related to model order reduction of complex dynamical systems with a focus on time-dependent problems.

This textbook is addressed to PhD or senior undergraduate students in mathematics, with interests in analysis, calculus of variations, probability and optimal transport.

This book constitutes revised selected and extended papers presented at track 4 of the Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, FedCSIS 2020, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during September 6-9, 2020.

This book describes the next generation of industry-Industry 4.

This book establishes an important mathematical connection between cooperative control problems and network optimization problems.

This book offers a timely review of cutting-edge applications of computational intelligence to business management and financial analysis.

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 gathers selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Fifth International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization (NAO-V), which was held at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, on January 6-9, 2020.

This book deals with modern Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software tools and platforms implemented in ship design, the integration of techno-economic databases, the use of optimisation and simulation software tools, which are integrated in these platforms, and the virtual modelling of ships and their operation by using a Virtual Vessel Framework (VVF).

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 presents a survey of the aspects of economic complexity, with a focus on foundational, interdisciplinary ideas.

This book is the first comprehensive tutorial on matheuristics.

This book introduces the reader to important concepts in modern applied analysis, such as homogenization, gradient flows on metric spaces, geometric evolution, Gamma-convergence tools, applications of geometric measure theory, properties of interfacial energies, etc.

The aim of this book is to furnish the reader with a rigorous and detailed exposition of the concept of control parametrization and time scaling transformation.

This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys.

This book collects some basic results on the null controllability for degenerate and singular parabolic problems.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners.

This self-contained monograph presents the reader with an authoritative view of Continuous Optimization, an area of mathematical optimization that has experienced major developments during the past 40 years.

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

This edited book provides techniques which address various aspects of big data collection and analysis from social media platforms and beyond.

This volume covers contemporary aspects of geometric measure theory with a focus on applications to partial differential equations, free boundary problems and water waves.

This edited volume illustrates the connections between machine learning techniques, black box optimization, and no-free lunch theorems.

This book presents the stream-tube method (STM), a method offering computational means of dealing with the two- and three-dimensional properties of numerous incompressible materials in static and dynamic conditions.

This book deals with critical infrastructure safety analysis based on reliability modelling of multistate ageing system.

This book focuses on a large class of multi-valued variational differential inequalities and inclusions of stationary and evolutionary types with constraints reflected by subdifferentials of convex functionals.

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.