Optimization

Many mechanics and physics problems have variational formulations making them appropriate for numerical treatment by finite element techniques and efficient iterative methods.

Besides scheduling problems for single and parallel machines and shop scheduling problems the book covers advanced models involving due-dates, sequence dependent changeover times and batching.

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WITH DISCRETE OR INTEGER VARIABLES, REVISED AND UPDATED The revised second edition of Integer Programming explains in clear and simple terms how to construct custom-made algorithms or use existing commercial software to obtain optimal or near-optimal solutions for a variety of real-world problems.

This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa's indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems.

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

This book provides an approach to the study of perturbation and discretization effects on the long-time behavior of dynamical and control systems.

This book adopts an individual differences approach to explain the psychology of chess by reviewing an extensive body of research.

This book combines the quantitative decision-informing techniques of management science and operations research with the data-centric techniques found throughout the world of analytics.

This book contains essays in honour of Claus Weddepohl who, after 22 years, is retiring as professor of mathematical economics at the Department of Quantitative Economics of the University of Amsterdam.

This is a book on Linear-Fractional Programming (here and in what follows we will refer to it as "e;LFP"e;).

This book presents essential concepts of traditional Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) and its recent variants and also its application to find optimal solution for a variety of real-world engineering and medical problems.

The ability to understand and predict behavior in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others, has been the domain of game theory since the 1950s.

The use of metaheuristic algorithms (MA) has been increasing in recent years, and the image processing field is not the exempted of their application.

Since their emergence in the early 1950s, ?

Social systems are among the most complex known.

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

This textbook provides students, researchers, and engineers in the area of electrical engineering with advanced mathematical optimization methods.

One of the most frequently occurring types of optimization problems involves decision variables which have to take integer values.

This volume contains the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e; Frontiers of Chemical Dynamics "e;, held in the Club AIda, Kerner, Turkey, from 5th September to 16th September 1994.

One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic systems are completely predictable-given the initial condition and the equations describing a system, the behavior of the system can be predicted 1 for all time.

Multilevel decision theory arises to resolve the contradiction between increasing requirements towards the process of design, synthesis, control and management of complex systems and the limitation of the power of technical, control, computer and other executive devices, which have to perform actions and to satisfy requirements in real time.

This volume collects the notes of the CIME course "e;Nonlinear PDE's and applications"e; held in Cetraro (Italy) on June 23-28, 2008.

The chapters in this volume explore how various methods from game theory can be utilized to optimize security and risk-management strategies.

This proceedings volume convenes selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications in Science and Engineering - ICMASE 2022, which was held on July 4-7, 2022 by the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Romania.

"e;The art of structure is where to put the holes"e; Robert Le Ricolais, 1894-1977 This is a completely revised, updated and expanded version of the book titled "e;Optimization of Structural Topology, Shape and Material"e; (Bends0e 1995).

The second edition of this "e;selecta"e; of my work on the stability of matter was sold out and this presented an opportunity to add some newer work on the quantum- mechanical many-body problem.

This book explains why the global community has been successful in correcting some recent large-scale problems, but not others.

Mathematical card effects offer both beginning and experienced magicians an opportunity to entertain with a minimum of props.

This book highlights the remarkable importance of special functions, operational calculus, and variational methods.

Multicriterion Decision in Management: Principles and Practice is the first multicriterion analysis book devoted exclusively to discrete multicriterion decision making.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions submitted to the 21st European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, ECMI 2021, which was virtually held online, hosted by the University of Wuppertal, Germany, from April 13th to April 15th, 2021.

This book demonstrates the use of the optimization techniques that are becoming essential to meet the increasing stringency and variety of requirements for automotive systems.

In the paper we propose a model of tax incentives optimization for inve- ment projects with a help of the mechanism of accelerated depreciation.

This book develops robust design and assessment of product and production from viewpoint of system theory, which is quantized with the introduction of brand new concept of preferable probability and its assessment.

Just as in its 1st edition, this book starts with illustrations of the ubiquitous character of optimization, and describes numerical algorithms in a tutorial way.

This book highlights state-of-the-art research on renewable energy integration technology and suitable and efficient power generation, discussing smart grids, renewable energy grid integration, prediction control models, and econometric models for predicting the global solar radiation and factors that affect solar radiation, performance evaluation of photovoltaic systems, and improved energy consumption prediction models.

Intelligent Control of Connected Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles presents the development of real-time intelligent control systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which involves control-oriented modelling, controller design, and performance evaluation.

This book provides readers with a detailed insight into diverse and exciting recent developments in computational solid mechanics, documenting new perspectives and horizons.

The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union.

This proceedings volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge related to optimization, decisions science and problem solving methods, as well as their application in industrial and territorial systems.

The primary aim of this monograph is to provide a formal framework for the representation and management of uncertainty and vagueness in the field of artificial intelligence.

In this book, various chaos maps are embedded in eleven efficient and well-known metaheuristics and a significant improvement in the optimization results is achieved.

A fascinating introduction to the key concepts and ideas of game theory.

Great progresses have been made in the application of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic.

This book describes applications of Jaya and Rao algorithms on real case studies concerning different renewable energy sources.