Optimization

This volume contains eight papers written by Adam Brandenburger and his co-authors over a period of 25 years.

This book presents the theory and methods of flexible and generalized uncertainty optimization.

This book is dedicated to applied gamification in the areas of education and business, while also covering pitfalls to avoid and guidelines needed to successfully implement for a project.

This new 4th edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

The enormous practical need for solving global optimization problems coupled with a rapidly advancing computer technology has allowed one to consider problems which a few years ago would have been considered computationally intractable.

This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

This book is intended to provide a systematic overview of so-called smart techniques, such as nature-inspired algorithms, machine learning and metaheuristics.

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As public awareness of social and environmental issues grew, more consumers began to support firms committed to developing and operating environmentally sustainable and socially responsible supply chains.

The chapters of this Handbook volume cover nine main topics that are representative of recenttheoretical and algorithmic developments in the field.

This accessible introduction features case studies in online advertising, spectrum auctions, kidney exchange, and network management.

This volume contains a selection of papers referring to lectures presented at the symposium "e;Operations Research 2004"e; (OR 2004) held at Tilburg University, September 1-3, 2004.

Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems takes an anisotropy-based approach to the explanation of random input disturbance with an information-theoretic representation.

Stochastic Programming offers models and methods fordecision problems wheresome of the data are uncertain.

The intention of the authors is to examine the relationship between piecewise linear structure and differential structure: a relationship, they assert, that can be understood as a homotopy obstruction theory, and, hence, can be studied by using the traditional techniques of algebraic topology.

This volume contains research articles from the field of Nonlinear Differential Equa- tions which result from the "e;Workshop on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications"e; held in Bergamo on July 9 to 13, 200l.

This volume of research papers comprises the proceedings of the first International Conference on Mathematics of Neural Networks and Applications (MANNA), which was held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from July 3rd to 7th, 1995 and attended by 116 people.

This book provides a timely and comprehensive overview of current theories and methods in fuzzy logic, as well as relevant applications in a variety of fields of science and technology.

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades.

This book will serve as a reference, presenting state-of-the-art research on theoretical aspects of optimal sensor coverage problems.

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

Mathematical treatment to properties of dynamic materials, material substances whose properties are variable in space and time are examined in this book.

This book provides a general treatment of a class of functionals modelled on convolution energies with kernel having finite p-moments.

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Bioinspired computation methods such as evolutionary algorithms and ant colony optimization are being applied successfully to complex engineering problems and to problems from combinatorial optimization, and with this comes the requirement to more fully understand the computational complexity of these search heuristics.

Accurate models to describe real-world phenomena are indispensable for research in such scientific fields as physics, engineering, biology, chemistry, and economics.

Handbook of Production Scheduling concentrates on real-world production scheduling in factories and industrial settings.

Combinatorial optimization is the process of finding the best, or optimal, so- lution for problems with a discrete set of feasible solutions.

An unusual supplement to every calculus textbook, Misteaks and How to Find Them before the Teacher Does is popular with students and teachers alike.

This volume comprises selected, revised papers from the Joint CIM-WIAS Workshop, TAAO 2017, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 2017.

This book addresses two-person zero-sum finite games in which the payoffs in any situation are expressed with fuzzy numbers.

This is a single comprehensive reference source covering the key material on this subject, and describing both theoretical and practical aspects.

The Encyclopedia of Systems and Control collects a broad range of short expository articles that describe the current state of the art in the central topics of control and systems engineering as well as in many of the related fields in which control is an enabling technology.

The book is devoted to the study of constrained minimization  problems on closed and convex sets in Banach spaces with a Frechet differentiable objective function.

This book introduces a cross-layer design to achieve security and resilience for CPSs (Cyber-Physical Systems).

A collection of papers written by prominent experts that examine a variety of advanced topics related to Boolean functions and expressions.

Presently, general-purpose optimization techniques such as Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms, have become standard optimization techniques.

The book explains basic ideas behind several kinds of applied multi-objective optimization and shows how it will be applied in practical contexts in the domain of healthcare, engineering design, and manufacturing.

An accessible guide to enterprise risk management for financial institutions.

This volume contains a selection of 128 papers presented in lectures during the international scientific symposium "e;Operations Research 2005"e; (OR 2005) held at the University of Bremen, September 7-9, 2005.

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex.

The book provides a collection of recent applications of nature inspired optimization in industrial fields.

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large variability and risks of phenomena.