Optimization

This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism.

This book introduces solutions for sports scheduling problems in a variety of settings.

As any human activity needs goals, mathematical research needs problems -David Hilbert Mechanics is the paradise of mathematical sciences -Leonardo da Vinci Mechanics and mathematics have been complementary partners since Newton's time and the history of science shows much evidence of the ben- eficial influence of these disciplines on each other.

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.

This book accessibly surveys the conceptual advances in economics for a broad social sciences audience.

This unique book describes how the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) can be used to solve various power system operation and planning optimization problems.

The Presidential Election Game may change the way you think about presidential elections and, for that matter, American politics in general.

Numerical minimization of an objective function is analyzed in this book to understand solution algorithms for optimization problems.

This book addresses the analysis of functions of a real variable and transitions from the standard calculus sequence to mathematical analysis.

Fully describes optimization methods that are currently most valuable in solving real-life problems.

This book deals mainly with the study of convex functions and their behavior from the point of view of stability with respect to perturbations.

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

This book illuminates the fundamental principle and applications of probability-based multi-objective optimization for material selection systematically, in which a brand new concept of preferable probability and its assessment as well as other treatments are introduced by authors for the first time.

There are thousands of books relating to poker, blackjack, roulette and baccarat, including strategy guides, statistical analysis, psychological studies, and much more.

Although they are believed to be unsolvable in general, tractability results suggest that some practical NP-hard problems can be efficiently solved.

This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems.

"e;Advanced Control of Industrial Processes"e; presents the concepts and algorithms of advanced industrial process control and on-line optimisation within the framework of a multilayer structure.

These Lecture Notes contain the material relative to the courses given at the CIME summer school held in Cetraro, Italy from August 29 to September 3, 2011.

This contributed volume offers a collection of papers presented at the 2016 Network Games, Control, and Optimization conference (NETGCOOP), held at the University of Avignon in France, November 23-25, 2016.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2021), which was hosted online by the University of Bern from August 31 to September 3, 2021, and was jointly organized by the Operations Research Societies of Switzerland (SVOR/ASRO), Germany (GOR e.

The Volume on Advances in Steiner Trees is divided into two sections.

This book presents a study to determine the current limitations in the area of Photovoltaics (PV) as a source of renewable energy and proposes strategies to overcome them by applying optimization approaches in three main areas, namely related to photovoltaic solar cells, modules, and systems.

This volume contains refereed papers based on the lectures presented at the XIV International Conference on Mathematical Programming held at Matrahaza, Hungary, between 27-31 March 1999.

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

Agent systems are being used to model complex systems like societies, markets and biological systems.

Quadratic programs and affine variational inequalities represent two fundamental, closely-related classes of problems in the t,heories of mathematical programming and variational inequalities, resp- tively.

Self-contained and unified in presentation, this invaluable book provides a broad introduction to the fascinating subject of many-body collective systems with adapting and evolving agents.

Differential equations play a noticeable role in engineering, physics, economics, and other disciplines.

While optimality conditions for optimal control problems with state constraints have been extensively investigated in the literature the results pertaining to numerical methods are relatively scarce.

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.

A concise, accessible guide to the modern optimization methods that are transforming computer science, data science, and machine learning.

This book proposes, for the first time, a basic formulation for structural control that takes into account the stochastic dynamics induced by engineering excitations in the nature of non-stationary and non-Gaussian processes.

"e;If necessity is the mother of invention, then deregulation is the father, and r- enue management (also known as yield management) is the couple's golden child - at least as far as operations research is concerned.

This textbook, now in its second edition, results from lectures, practical problems, and workshops on Optimal Control, given by the authors at Irkutsk State University, Far Eastern Federal University (both in Vladivostok, Russia), and Kwangwoon University (Seoul, South Korea).

This book consolidates decades of knowledge on space flight navigation theory, which has thus far been spread across various research articles.

This monograph applies the relative optimization approach to time nonhomogeneous continuous-time and continuous-state dynamic systems.

This book proposes, for the first time, a basic formulation for structural control that takes into account the stochastic dynamics induced by engineering excitations in the nature of non-stationary and non-Gaussian processes.

This textbook invites the reader to develop a holistic grounding in mathematical finance, where concepts and intuition play as important a role as powerful mathematical tools.

The volume contains original research papers as the Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Analysis and Soft Computing (ANASC 2020), held at Gauhati University, Guwahati, India, on 22-23 December, 2020.

This title takes an in-depth look at the mathematics in the context of voting and electoral systems, with focus on simple ballots, complex elections, fairness, approval voting, ties, fair and unfair voting, and manipulation techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Meeting on Innovation for Systems Information and Decision meeting, INSID 2020, held in Recife, Brazil, in December 2020.

This is the third of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing.

In Practical Financial Optimization: A Library of GAMS Models, the authors provide a diverse set of models for portfolio optimization, based on the General Algebraic Modelling System.

This volume collects contributions from the talks given at the Game Theory and Management Conference held in St.