Optimization

These proceedings consist of 30 selected research papers based on results presented at the 10th Balkan Conference & 1st International Symposium on Operational Research (BALCOR 2011) held in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22-24, 2011.

This book collects some recent developments in stochastic control theory with applications to financial mathematics.

This book gives a systematic treatment of singularly perturbed systems that naturally arise in control and optimization, queueing networks, manufacturing systems, and financial engineering.

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This work presents lines of investigation and scientific achievements of the Ukrainian school of optimization theory and adjacent disciplines.

The primary purpose in this book is to present an integrated and innovative methodological approach for the construction and selection of equity portfolios.

Mathematical biomedicine is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of research that connects the natural and exact sciences in an attempt to respond to the modeling and simulation challenges raised by biology and medicine.

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This book serves as an introduction to calculus on normed vector spaces at a higher undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

This book gives a comprehensive treatment of the fundamental necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality for finite-dimensional, deterministic, optimal control problems.

Polynomial optimization have been a hot research topic for the past few years and its applications range from Operations Research, biomedical engineering, investment science, to quantum mechanics, linear algebra, and signal processing, among many others.

This self-contained monograph presents a new stochastic approach to global optimization problems arising in a variety of disciplines including mathematics, operations research, engineering, and economics.

This volume contains a selection of contributions that were presented at the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications Conference (MOPTA) held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on August 18-20, 2010.

Analysis, assessment, and data management are core tools required for operation research analysts.

Discrete-Time Linear Systems: Theory and Design with Applications combines system theory and design in order to show the importance of system theory and its role in system design.

The volume will consist of about 40 articles written by some very influential mathematicians of our time and will expose the latest achievements in the broad area of nonlinear analysis and its various interdisciplinary applications.

This research monograph summarizes a line of research that maps certain classical problems of discrete mathematics and operations research - such as the Hamiltonian Cycle and the Travelling Salesman Problems - into convex domains where continuum analysis can be carried out.

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

This monograph deals with a general class of solution approaches in deterministic global optimization, namely the geometric branch-and-bound methods which are popular algorithms, for instance, in Lipschitzian optimization, d.

Do humans behave much like atoms?

Many engineering, operations, and scientific applications include a mixture of discrete and continuous decision variables and nonlinear relationships involving the decision variables that have a pronounced effect on the set of feasible and optimal solutions.

This book deals with nonsmooth structures arising within the optimization setting.

The first edition of Integrated Methods for Optimization was published in January 2007.

Abstract models for many problems in science and engineering take the form of an operator equation.

Inequalities of Ostrowski and Trapezoidal Type for Functions of Selfadjoint Operators on Hilbert Spaces presents recent results concerning Ostrowski and Trapezoidal type inequalities for continuous functions of bounded Selfadjoint operators on complex Hilbert spaces.

This book presents the application of some AI related optimization techniques in the operation and control of electric power systems.

This book is intended to be used as a textbook for graduate students studying theoretical computer science.

Whether different types of costs are to be reduced, benefits to be maximized or scarce resources to be managed, scheduling theory provides intelligent methods for practitioners and scientists.

The availability of today's online information systems rapidly increases the relevance of dynamic decision making within a large number of operational contexts.

Advances on Fractional Inequalities use primarily the Caputo fractional derivative, as the most important in applications, and presents the first fractional differentiation inequalities of Opial type which involves the balanced fractional derivatives.

The results presented in this book are a product of research conducted by the author independently and in collaboration with other researchers in the field.

Complex Social Networks is a newly emerging (hot) topic with applications in a variety of domains, such as communication networks, engineering networks, social networks, and biological networks.

Semidefinite and conic optimization is a major and thriving research area within the optimization community.

Complex Social Networks is a newly emerging (hot) topic with applications in a variety of domains, such as communication networks, engineering networks, social networks, and biological networks.

Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications focuses on nonlinear phenomena that are common in the engineering field.

The aim of stochastic programming is to find optimal decisions in problems which involve uncertain data.

A Polynomial Approach to Linear Algebra is a text which is heavily biased towards functional methods.

Before the appearance of broadband links and wireless systems, networks have been used to connect people in new ways.

Group Testing Theory in Network Security explores a new branch of group testing theory with an application which enhances research results in network security.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS, MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS is based on the proceedings of a workshop that was an integral part of the 1992-93 IMA program on "e;Control Theory.

The major purpose of this book is to introduce the main concepts of discrete optimization problems which have a finite number of feasible solutions.

Optimization is the process by which the optimal solution to a problem, or optimum, is produced.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS, STOCHASTIC CONTROL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS is the proceedings of a workshop which was an integral part of the 1986-87 IMA program on STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS.

The articles in this volume focus on control theory of systems governed by nonlinear linear partial differential equations, identification and optimal design of such systems, and modelling of advanced materials.

Robust control originates with the need to cope with systems with modeling uncertainty.

During the past decade the interaction between control theory and linear algebra has been ever increasing, giving rise to new results in both areas.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications VARIATIONAL AND FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS is based on the proceedings of a workshop which was an integral part of the 1990- 91 IMA program on "e;Phase Transitions and Free Boundaries.

Applications of operant techniques in treatment and education have proliferated in recent years.

This book has grown out of lectures and courses in calculus of variations and optimization taught for many years at the University of Michigan to graduate students at various stages of their careers, and always to a mixed audience of students in mathematics and engineering.