Optimization

Intended for advanced undergraduate/graduate students as well as scientists and engineers, this textbook presents a multi-disciplinary view of optimization, providing a thorough examination of algorithms, methods, techniques, and tools from diverse areas of optimization.

This book offers a systematic and rigorous treatment of continuous-time Markov decision processes, covering both theory and possible applications to queueing systems, epidemiology, finance, and other fields.

Advances in discrete mathematics are presented in this book with applications in theoretical mathematics and interdisciplinary research.

This tutorial is the first comprehensive introduction to (possibly infinite) linear systems containing strict inequalities and evenly convex sets.

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

This book presents the best papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2020, held in Vilamoura, Portugal.

2019 marked the 85th anniversary of Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg's habilitation thesis "e;Marktform und Gleichgewicht,"e; which formed the roots of bilevel optimization.

This book includes papers presented at the ISDG12-GTM2019 International Meeting on Game Theory, as a joint meeting of the 12th International ISDG Workshop and the 13th "e;International Conference on Game Theory and Management"e;, held in St.

This Springer brief discusses the use of control engineering methods to plan a cancer therapy which tends to reduce tumour size in patients, striking a balance that minimizes the toxic effects of the treatment.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2018), which was held at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium on September 12 - 14, 2018, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) and the Belgian Operational Research Society (ORBEL).

This book is intended to be a useful contribution for the modern teaching of applied mathematics, educating Industrial Mathematicians that will meet the growing demand for such experts.

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2019), which was held at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, on September 4-6, 2019, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) the Austrian Operations Research Society (OGOR), and the Swiss Operational Research Society (SOR/ASRO).

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

This book provides engineers and scientists in academia and industry with a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of nonlinear system identification.

This book gathers the most essential results, including recent ones, on linear-quadratic optimal control problems, which represent an important aspect of stochastic control.

This book presents a compendium of selected game- and decision-theoretic models to achieve and assess the security of critical infrastructures.

This monograph collects cutting-edge results and techniques for solving nonlinear partial differential equations using critical points.

This Palgrave Pivot examines monotone games and studies incentives and outcomes when there are multiple players, and how the decision of each player affects the well-being of others in particular ways.

This book presents a compendium of selected game- and decision-theoretic models to achieve and assess the security of critical infrastructures.

This book is one of the first to include an extensive discussion of integrated public transport planning.

This book introduces readers to basic game theory as a tool to deal with strategic decision problems, helping them to understand the complexity of such problems - to extract a solution, if possible - and to manage the complexity by revising the game if appropriate.

This textbook presents, in a mathematically precise manner, a unified introduction to deterministic control theory.

Like norms, translation invariant functions are a natural and powerful tool for the separation of sets and scalarization.

This textbook provides an introduction to probabilistic reliability analysis of power systems.

This study aid on numerical optimization techniques is intended for university undergraduate and postgraduate mechanical engineering students.

This volume presents a broad discussion of computational methods and theories on various classical and modern research problems from pure and applied mathematics.

Two approaches are known for solving large-scale unconstrained optimization problems-the limited-memory quasi-Newton method (truncated Newton method) and the conjugate gradient method.

This book offers an introduction to optimization theory in normed spaces.

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

This textbook offers graduate students a concise introduction to the classic notions of convex optimization.

This Festschrift is in honor of Chris Hankin, Professor at the Imperial College in London, UK, on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday.

This contributed volume presents the state-of-the-art of games and dynamic games, featuring several chapters based on plenary sessions at the ISDG-China Chapter Conference on Dynamic Games and Game Theoretic Analysis, which was held from August 3-5, 2017 at the Ningbo campus of the University of Nottingham, China.

Arbitrage Theory provides the foundation for the pricing of financial derivatives and has become indispensable in both financial theory and financial practice.

This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE 2019), which took place in Montreal, Canada, from May 30 to June 1, 2019.

This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies.

This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war.

This book covers not only foundational materials but also the most recent progresses made during the past few years on the area of machine learning algorithms.

Why can't we think straight about the big issues that face our society?

Gathering the proceedings of the 12th CHAOS2019 International Conference, this book highlights recent developments in nonlinear, dynamical and complex systems.

The book provides a broad introduction to both the theory and the application of optimization with a special emphasis on the elegance, importance, and usefulness of the parametric self-dual simplex method.

This book addresses optimization in robotics, in terms of both the configuration space and the metal structure of the robot arm itself; and discusses, describes and builds different types of heuristics and algorithms in MATLAB.

This book is the first to present in a systematic manner the application of game theory to fisheries management at both international and national levels.

This book examines relationships between pairwise comparisons matrices.

Spotlighting the field of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), this book illustrates and implements state-of-the-art methodologies within the complex process of aerospace system design under uncertainties.

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.

This book aims at reviewing recent progress in the direction of algebraic and symbolic computation methods for functional systems, e.

The book is devoted to the study of approximate solutions of optimization problems in the presence of computational errors.

This self-contained book describes social influence from a computational point of view, with a focus on recent and practical applications, models, algorithms and open topics for future research.

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.