Optimization

This book gathers the contributions of the international conference "e;Optimization and Decision Science"e; (ODS2018), which was held at the Hotel Villa Diodoro, Taormina (Messina), Italy on September 10 to 13, 2018, and was organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society, in cooperation with the DMI (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) of the University of Catania (Italy).

This book presents mathematical models of demand-side management programs, together with operational and control problems for power and renewable energy systems.

This work gathers a selection of outstanding papers presented at the 25th Conference on Differential Equations and Applications / 15th Conference on Applied Mathematics, held in Cartagena, Spain, in June 2017.

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 considers a range of problems in operations research, which are formulated through various mathematical models such as complementarity, variational inequalities, multiobjective optimization, fixed point problems, noncooperative games and inverse optimization.

The Handbook of Cliometrics is a milestone in the field of historical economics and econometric history through its emphasis on the concrete contribution of cliometrics to our knowledge in economics and history.

This monograph investigates the existence of higher order sliding mode in discrete-time systems and propounds a new concept of discrete-time higher order sliding mode.

Disjunctive Programming is a technique and a discipline initiated by the author in the early 1970's, which has become a central tool for solving nonconvex optimization problems like pure or mixed integer programs, through convexification (cutting plane) procedures combined with enumeration.

Applying role theory and Putnam's two-level game framework to the European migration crisis of 2015, Magdalena Kozub-Karkut expertly shows how the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland used the crisis to contest their roles in the European Union (EU) and how each country and the V4, as a group, subsequently used their new contested roles in the bargaining process within the EU structures.

This book offers a rigorous mathematical analysis of fuzzy geometrical ideas.

This book explores mathematics in a wide variety of applications, ranging from problems in electronics, energy and the environment, to mechanics and mechatronics.

The goal of this book is to elaborate on the main principles of the theory of the Berge equilibrium by answering the following two questions: What are the basic properties of the Berge equilibrium?

The must-read summary of Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff's book: "e;The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and in Life"e;.

This book bridges the widening gap between two crucial constituents of computational intelligence: the rapidly advancing technologies of machine learning in the digital information age, and the relatively slow-moving field of general-purpose search and optimization algorithms.

This book explains, in a straightforward way, the foundations upon which electoral techniques are based in order to shed new light on what we actually do when we vote.

The scientific and technical development of any kind of germplasm is regulated by a vast network of treaties, conventions, international agreements, and national and regional legislation.

In today's world, with an increase in the breadth and scope of real-world engineering optimization problems as well as with the advent of big data, improving the performance and efficiency of algorithms for solving such problems has become an indispensable need for specialists and researchers.

This textbook provides an overview of the fundamentals of game theory and its applications in various fields.

Nash equilibrium is the central solution concept in Game Theory.

Nash equilibrium is the central solution concept in Game Theory.

Based on over 15 years' experience in the design and delivery of successful first-year courses, this book equips undergraduates with the mathematical skills required for degree courses in economics, finance, management, and business studies.

Fractional Calculus and Fractional Processes with Applications to Financial Economics presents the theory and application of fractional calculus and fractional processes to financial data.

This book examines optimization problems that in practice involve random model parameters.

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

Many important applications in global optimization, algebra, probability and statistics, applied mathematics, control theory, financial mathematics, inverse problems, etc.

Build Your Dream Team puts in perspective the progress made over the last 20 years in management.

Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area that is providing solutions to biological and medical problems and improving the healthcare system.

A remarkable facet of the human brain is its ability to manage multiple tasks with apparent simultaneity.

This book presents state-of-the-art technologies in wind farm layout optimization and control to improve the current industry/research practice.

Master linear programming with this comprehensive guide, covering fundamentals, advanced methods, and practical applications using Excel, MATLAB, and Lindo.

The Moment-SOS hierarchy is a powerful methodology that is used to solve the Generalized Moment Problem (GMP) where the list of applications in various areas of Science and Engineering is almost endless.

In full generality, minimizing a polynomial function over a closed semi-algebraic set requires complex mathematical equations.

This handbook aims to serve as a one-stop, reliable resource, including curated surveys and expository contributions on federated learning.

This handbook aims to serve as a one-stop, reliable resource, including curated surveys and expository contributions on federated learning.

This important book provides an account of the linear acoustics of basic isotropic/anisotropic structures excited by time-harmonic and transient mechanical forces and acoustic sources.

The book presents basic structures, concepts and algorithms in the area of multilayer optimizing control of industrial systems, as well as the results of the research that was carried out by the authors over the last two decades.

This book offers a careful selection of studies in optimization techniques based on artificial intelligence, applied to inverse problems in radiative transfer.

An industrial book that analyses various theoretical problems, optimizes numerical applications and addresses industrial problems such as belt-conveyor bridge, pipeline, wind turbine power, large-span suspended roof and offshore jacket member.

Si como programador de back end quiere evolucionar al mismo tiempo que aprovechar todo su código en Java, sin duda, debe empezar por adoptar Kotlin, un nuevo lenguaje de programación, equiparado a Java en el mundo Android.

GAME THEORYAlthough game theory as a salient concept is relatively young, the principles behind game theory have for millennia allowed humans to anticipate the behavior of their fellows and work out compelling exchanges that suit everyone's self-interest, allowing people to benefit both individually and collectively.

GAME THEORY For game theorists, a game is the interaction between two or more people wherein the payoff for each person is affected by the actions and decisions of other participants.

Mathematics plays a central role in modern culture, and a basic understanding of the nature of mathematics is required for scientific literacy.

Cooperation is pervasive throughout nature, but its origin remains an open question.

This book presents a comprehensive optimization-based theory and framework that exploits the synergistic interactions and tradeoffs between process design and operational decisions that span different time scales.

Social choice theory deals with aggregating the preferences of multiple individuals regarding several available alternatives, a situation colloquially known as voting.

This is a technical overview of the field of adversarial machine learning which has emerged to study vulnerabilities of machine learning approaches in adversarial settings and to develop techniques to make learning robust to adversarial manipulation.

Evolving agents to play games is a promising technology.