Optimization

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.

Opening new directions in research in both discrete event dynamic systems as well as in stochastic control, this volume focuses on a wide class of control and of optimization problems over sequences of integer numbers.

This book provides an approach to the study of perturbation and discretization effects on the long-time behavior of dynamical and control systems.

This volume introduces some basic mathematical models for cell cycle, proliferation, cancer, and cancer therapy.

Riemannian, symplectic and complex geometry are often studied by means ofsolutions to systems ofnonlinear differential equations, such as the equa- tions of geodesics, minimal surfaces, pseudoholomorphic curves and Yang- Mills connections.

As a branch of mathematics that studies the behavior of random, fuzzy and rough events, uncertainty theory is the generic name of probability theory, credibility theory, and trust theory.

Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization comprises of three parts.

This book originates from the graduate course Theory and Methods of Optimisation taught at the University of Pisa and is primarily intended for students seeking a rigorous yet accessible introduction to optimisation techniques.

This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students provides a clear and practical guide to the principles and methods for structuring and solving complex problems that include multiple, often conflicting criteria.

This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students provides a clear and practical guide to the principles and methods for structuring and solving complex problems that include multiple, often conflicting criteria.

This book is a comprehensive, self-contained guide to generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) seeking methods for population games focused on optimizing the control of large-scale complex systems (LSCSs).

This book is a comprehensive, self-contained guide to generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) seeking methods for population games focused on optimizing the control of large-scale complex systems (LSCSs).

This authored monograph covers a viability to approach to traffic management by advising to vehicles circulated on the network the velocity they should follow for satisfying global traffic conditions;.

This authored monograph covers a viability to approach to traffic management by advising to vehicles circulated on the network the velocity they should follow for satisfying global traffic conditions;.

This book describes opportunities in mission dependency network analysis made possible by advances in optimization methods.

This book describes opportunities in mission dependency network analysis made possible by advances in optimization methods.

This book offers a comprehensive, modern understanding of legal philosophy through an evolutionary lens.

This book offers a comprehensive, modern understanding of legal philosophy through an evolutionary lens.

This is the second volume of a three-volume treatise which presents the mathematical foundations of systems and control theory in a self-contained, comprehensive, detailed and mathematically rigorous way.

At last, a tic-tac-toe computer that needs no electrical power!

At last, a tic-tac-toe computer that needs no electrical power!

Expanding the Digital Frontiers of Business with AI, Gamification, and Metaverse Marketing explores how organizations can leverage AI to understand customer behavior, optimize pricing strategies, and enhance decision-making processes.

Expanding the Digital Frontiers of Business with AI, Gamification, and Metaverse Marketing explores how organizations can leverage AI to understand customer behavior, optimize pricing strategies, and enhance decision-making processes.

A decision procedure is an algorithm that, given a decision problem, terminates with a correct yes/no answer.

Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand.

Graph algorithms are easy to visualize and indeed there already exists a variety of packages to animate the dynamics when solving problems from graph theory.

An introduction to the basic theory of stochastic calculus and its applications.

This book is an abridged version of our two-volume opus Convex Analysis and Minimization Algorithms [18], about which we have received very positive feedback from users, readers, lecturers ever since it was published - by Springer-Verlag in 1993.

This book consists of five introductory contributions by leading mathematicians on the functional analytic treatment of evolutions equations.

Just as in its 1st edition, this book starts with illustrations of the ubiquitous character of optimization, and describes numerical algorithms in a tutorial way.

This is an introductory textbook of linear programming, written mainly for students of computer science and mathematics.

Decision makers in many areas, from industry to engineering and the social sector, face an increasing need to consider multiple, conflicting objectives in their decision processes.

Originally published in 1973, Theory and World Politics provides a penetrating and lucid treatment of the possibilities and applications of the important contemporary approaches to international relations at the time.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the different types of fuzzy sets that have been developed in the last few years.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the different types of fuzzy sets that have been developed in the last few years.

Dieses Buch fasst verständlich und konkret die wichtigsten Gewinnstrategien für über 50 der bekanntesten Karten-, Brett-, Würfel- und Gesellschaftsspiele zusammen – kompakt, griffig und sofort anwendbar.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th China Simulation Conferenc, CSC 2025, held in Hefei, China, during October 31-November 2, 2025.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th China Simulation Conferenc, CSC 2025, held in Hefei, China, during October 31-November 2, 2025.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th China Simulation Conferenc, CSC 2025, held in Hefei, China, during October 31-November 2, 2025.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th China Simulation Conferenc, CSC 2025, held in Hefei, China, during October 31-November 2, 2025.

Bringing together some of the world’s foremost supply-chain thinkers, this book shows how artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting the rules of global supply chain management.

This book introduces readers to benchmarking techniques in the stochastic environment, primarily stochastic data envelopment analysis (DEA), and provides stochastic models in DEA for the possibility of variations in inputs and outputs.

This book introduces readers to benchmarking techniques in the stochastic environment, primarily stochastic data envelopment analysis (DEA), and provides stochastic models in DEA for the possibility of variations in inputs and outputs.

The book thoroughly explains fundamental optimization concepts and terminology, including variables, parameters, constraints, bounds, and convexity.

The book thoroughly explains fundamental optimization concepts and terminology, including variables, parameters, constraints, bounds, and convexity.

Originally published in 1973, Theory and World Politics provides a penetrating and lucid treatment of the possibilities and applications of the important contemporary approaches to international relations at the time.

This book introduces the basic concepts and tools of dynamic optimization as used in economics.

This book introduces the basic concepts and tools of dynamic optimization as used in economics.

Bringing together some of the world’s foremost supply-chain thinkers, this book shows how artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting the rules of global supply chain management.