Optimization

The goal of this book is to gather in a single work the most relevant concepts related in optimization methods, showing how such theories and methods can be addressed using the open source, multi-platform R tool.

This book gathers selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Fifth International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization (NAO-V), which was held at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, on January 6-9, 2020.

This book deals with modern Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software tools and platforms implemented in ship design, the integration of techno-economic databases, the use of optimisation and simulation software tools, which are integrated in these platforms, and the virtual modelling of ships and their operation by using a Virtual Vessel Framework (VVF).

Process Plant Operating Procedures presents an introduction to the theory and applications of procedure synthesis that is primarily concerned with the task of conjecturing the sequence of controller (or operator) actions needed to achieve designated operational goals in a given system.

This book presents a survey of the aspects of economic complexity, with a focus on foundational, interdisciplinary ideas.

This book is the first comprehensive tutorial on matheuristics.

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.

The aim of this book is to furnish the reader with a rigorous and detailed exposition of the concept of control parametrization and time scaling transformation.

This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys.

This book collects some basic results on the null controllability for degenerate and singular parabolic problems.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners.

This self-contained monograph presents the reader with an authoritative view of Continuous Optimization, an area of mathematical optimization that has experienced major developments during the past 40 years.

The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in mathematics, computer science, and operational research.

This edited book provides techniques which address various aspects of big data collection and analysis from social media platforms and beyond.

This volume covers contemporary aspects of geometric measure theory with a focus on applications to partial differential equations, free boundary problems and water waves.

This edited volume illustrates the connections between machine learning techniques, black box optimization, and no-free lunch theorems.

This book presents the stream-tube method (STM), a method offering computational means of dealing with the two- and three-dimensional properties of numerous incompressible materials in static and dynamic conditions.

This book deals with critical infrastructure safety analysis based on reliability modelling of multistate ageing system.

This book focuses on a large class of multi-valued variational differential inequalities and inclusions of stationary and evolutionary types with constraints reflected by subdifferentials of convex functionals.

Based on the "e;Fourth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; (Kalamata, Greece, July 2019), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on natural and unnatural disasters.

Accessible to a variety of readers, this book is of interest to specialists, graduate students and researchers in mathematics, optimization, computer science, operations research, management science, engineering and other applied areas interested in solving optimization problems.

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 book covers controller tuning techniques from conventional to new optimization methods for diverse control engineering applications.

This proceedings book presents state-of-the-art developments in theory, methodology, and applications of network analysis across sociology, computational science, education research, literature studies, political science, international relations, social media research, and urban studies.

This book is an original-the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck.

This book focuses on distributed and economic Model Predictive Control (MPC) with applications in different fields.

This book is about algebraic and differential methods, as well as fractional calculus, applied to diagnose and reject faults in nonlinear systems, which are of integer or fractional order.

"e;Efficient breach"e; is one of the most discussed topics in the literature of law and economics.

This brief describes the basics of Riemannian optimization-optimization on Riemannian manifolds-introduces algorithms for Riemannian optimization problems, discusses the theoretical properties of these algorithms, and suggests possible applications of Riemannian optimization to problems in other fields.

This book highlights new and original contributions on Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization both from the theoretical point of view and from applications in all fields.

This book presents a panorama about the recent progress of industrial mathematics from the point of view of both industrials and researchers.

The theory presented in this work merges many concepts from mathematical optimization and real algebraic geometry.

This contributed volume discusses aspects of nonlinear analysis in which optimization plays an important role, as well as topics which are applied to the study of optimization problems.

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

This book comprises selected papers of the 25th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications, ICDEA 2019, held at UCL, London, UK, in June 2019.

This contributed volume focuses on various important areas of mathematics in which approximation methods play an essential role.

This book is devoted to the study of a class of optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

This focused monograph presents a study of subgradient algorithms for constrained minimization problems in a Hilbert space.

This book studies complex systems with elements represented by random variables.

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

In an expanding world with limited resources, optimization and uncertainty quantification have become a necessity when handling complex systems and processes.

This book presents simple design paradigms related to lightweight design, that are derived from an in-depth and theoretically sound analysis based on Pareto theory.

This Palgrave Pivot presents tournament design mainly within the axioms of incentive compatibility and fairness.

This volume provides an introduction to the theory of Mean Field Games, suggested by J.

This book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty.

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 is a new contribution aiming to give some last research findings in the field of optimization and computing.

This Springer brief addresses the challenges encountered in the study of  the optimization of time-nonhomogeneous Markov chains.

This book gathers nineteen papers presented at the first NLAGA-BIRS Symposium, which was held at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, on June 24-28, 2019.

In a series of conversational essays, this textbook discusses the manner in which economic thought addresses a broad array of everyday issues beyond classical textbook treatments.