Optimization

This book explores the updated version of the GLOBAL algorithm which contains improvements for a local search algorithm and new Java implementations.

This handbook aims to serve as a one-stop, reliable source of reference, with curations of survey and expository contributions on the state-of-the-art in Blockchain technology.

In economics agents are assumed to choose on the basis of rational calculations aimed at the maximization of their pleasure or profit.

The field of fractional calculus (FC) is more than 300 years old, and it presumably stemmed from a question about a fractional-order derivative raised in communication between L'Hopital and Leibniz in the year 1695.

This book contains select chapters on support vector algorithms from different perspectives, including mathematical background, properties of various kernel functions, and several applications.

This invaluable book provides approximately eighty examples illustrating the theory of controlled discrete-time Markov processes.

Modern and unique treatment of process optimization which presents an exposition of applications and algorithms in detail for practical use.

Very little has been published on optimization of pharmaceutical portfolios.

This textbook provides an introduction to convex duality for optimization problems in Banach spaces, integration theory, and their application to stochastic programming problems in a static or dynamic setting.

The first comprehensive introduction to the powerful moment approach for solving global optimization problems.

This book presents state-of-the-art optimization algorithms followed by Internet of Things (IoT) fundamentals.

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 highly informative and carefully presented textbook introduces the general principles involved in system design and optimization as applicable to thermal systems, followed by the methods to accomplish them.

This book presents the best papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2020, held in Vilamoura, Portugal.

The quality loss function, introduced by Japanese engineer, statistician and scientist Dr.

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.

Using the theory of Prisoner''s Dilemma, Prisoners of Reason explores how neoliberalism departs from classic liberalism and how it rests on game theory.

The contents of this monograph fall within the general area of nonlinear functional analysis and applications.

In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items.

Deep connections exist between harmonic and applied analysis and the diverse yet connected topics of machine learning, data analysis, and imaging science.

This book shows how the Bayesian Approach (BA) improves well- known heuristics by randomizing and optimizing their parameters.

Ship optimization design is critical to the preliminary design of a ship.

Nonconvex Optimal Control and Variational Problems is an important contribution to the existing literature in the field and is devoted to the presentation of progress made in the last 15 years of research in the area of optimal control and the calculus of variations.

This book is an essay on the epistemology of classifications.

Optimization is the process by which the optimal solution to a problem, or optimum, is produced.

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

This book provides up-to-date information on the state of the art in applications of biotechnological and microbiological tools for protecting the environment.

This book explores discrete-time dynamic optimization and provides a detailed introduction to both deterministic and stochastic models.

The author presents polyhedral results and exact solution methods for location problems encountered in telecommunications, but which also have applications in other areas, such as transportation and supply chain management.

This book includes selected papers presented at the Indo-French Seminar on Optimization, Variational Analysis and Applications (IFSOVAA-2020), held at the Department of Mathematics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, from 2-4 February 2020.

This book is the result of various master and summer school courses the author has taught.

This text introduces students to an experimental approach to mathematics, using Maple to systematically investigate and develop mathematical theory.

The primary focus of this book is on explicating the direct method approach.

Provides practical optimization techniques and modeling tips and tricks for solving challenging wireless networking problems.

This volume collects contributions from the speakers at an INdAM Intensive period held at the University of Bari in 2017.

Machine learning heavily relies on optimization algorithms to solve its learning models.

By offering a critical assessment of the evolution of standard game theory, this book argues for a shift in the ontology and methodology of game theory for appraising games, one based on understanding the players' strategic reasoning process.

The numerous applications of optimal control theory have given an incentive to the development of approximate techniques aimed at the construction of control laws and the optimization of dynamical systems.

This book primarily addresses various game theory phenomena in the context of management practice.

Nel volume vengono descritti e analizzati gli algoritmi di ottimizzazione non vincolata maggiormente noti e quelli studiati pi di recente e proposti nella letteratura specialistica.

The volume includes papers from the WSCMO conference in Braunschweig 2017 presenting research of all aspects of the optimal design of structures as well as multidisciplinary design optimization where the involved disciplines deal with the analysis of solids, fluids or other field problems.

This monograph presents a comprehensive study of portfolio optimization, an important area of quantitative finance.

What are the principles that keep our society together?

The NLAGA's Biennial International Research Symposium (NLAGA-BIRS) is intended to gather African expertises in Nonlinear Analysis, Geometry and their Applications with their international partners in a four days conference where new mathematical results are presented and discussed.

This book discusses comprehensively the advanced manufacturing processes, including illustrative examples of the processes, mathematical modeling, and the need to optimize associated parameter problems.

Several important problems arising in Physics, Differential Geometry and other topics lead to consider semilinear variational equations of strongly indefinite type and a great deal of work has been devoted to their study.

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