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Quantitative Methods in Transportation provides the most useful, simple, and advanced quantitative techniques for solving real-life transportation engineering problems.

This book covers the application of algebraic inequalities for reliability improvement and for uncertainty and risk reduction.

This book covers the application of algebraic inequalities for reliability improvement and for uncertainty and risk reduction.

3D rotation analysis is widely encountered in everyday problems thanks to the development of computers.

3D rotation analysis is widely encountered in everyday problems thanks to the development of computers.

First published in 1992, A Political Theory Primer is designed as an introductory course for students in the application of game theory to modeling political processes.

First published in 1992, A Political Theory Primer is designed as an introductory course for students in the application of game theory to modeling political processes.

"e;A systematic review of the structure and context of the blockchain-derived economic model.

"e;A systematic review of the structure and context of the blockchain-derived economic model.

The exercise of solving engineering problems that require optimisation procedures can be seriously affected by uncertain variables, resulting in potential underperforming solutions.

The exercise of solving engineering problems that require optimisation procedures can be seriously affected by uncertain variables, resulting in potential underperforming solutions.

Written engagingly and with agreeable humour, this book balances a light touch with a rigorous yet economical account of the theory of games and bargaining models.

This book focuses on various aspects of dynamic game theory, presenting state-of-the-art research and serving as a testament to the vitality and growth of the field of dynamic games and their applications.

This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments.

Optical networks epitomize complex communication systems, and they comprise the Internet's infrastructural backbone.

This second edition of A Beginner's Guide to Finite Mathematics: For Business, Management, and the Social Sciences takes a distinctly applied approach to finite mathematics at the freshman and sophomore level.

Various imperfections in existing market systems prevent the free market from serving as a truly efficient allocation mechanism, but optimization of economic activities provides an effective remedial measure.

Congestion control algorithms were implemented for the Internet nearly two decades ago, but mathematical models of congestion control in such a large-scale network are relatively new.

This book is devoted to the basic variational principles of mechanics: the Lagrange-D'Alembert differential variational principle and the Hamilton integral variational principle.

Beginning with a tutorial guide to MATLAB(R), the text thereafter is divided into two main areas.

Both refining and extending previous publications by the authors, the material in this monograph has been class-tested in mathematical institutions throughout the world.

Optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) is a well-established discipline in mathematics with many interfaces to science and engineering.

This monograph presents extensions of the Moser-Bangert approach that include solutions of a family of nonlinear elliptic PDEs on Rn and an Allen-Cahn PDE model of phase transitions.

This book focuses on various aspects of dynamic game theory, presenting state-of-the-art research and serving as a testament to the vitality and growth of the field of dynamic games and their applications.

"e;Each chapter contains a well-written introduction and notes.

Combining two important and growing areas of applied mathematics-control theory and modeling-this textbook introduces and builds on methods for simulating and tackling concrete problems in a variety of applied sciences.

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Featuring original research from well-known experts in the field of sliding mode control, this monograph presents new design schemes for implementing LQ control solutions in situations where the output system is the only information provided about the state of the plant.

"e;An elegantly written, introductory overview of the field, with a near perfect choice of what to include and what not, enlivened in places by historical tidbits and made eminently readable throughout by crisp language.

This book presents current advances in the theory of dynamic games and their applications in several disciplines.

An outgrowth of the 12th International Conference on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, this book is a collection of invited chapters presenting recent developments in the field of data analysis, with applications to reliability and inference, data mining, bioinformatics, lifetime data, and neural networks.

Life has many surprises.

Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician.

as anywhere today, it is becoming more d- ficult to tell the truth.

Toward the late 1990s, several research groups independently began developing new, related theories in mathematical finance.

H-infinity engineering continues to establish itself as a discipline of applied mathematics.

Thesubjectofthisbookisthemodelingofcomplex systemsinthelife sciences constituted by a large number of interacting entities called active particles.

Many control problems can be naturally formulated, analyzed, and solved in a set-theoretic context.

Rooted in a pedagogically successful problem-solving approach to linear algebra, this work fills a gap in the literature that is sharply divided between, on the one end, elementary texts with only limited exercises and examples, and, at the other end, books too advanced in prerequisites and too specialized in focus to appeal to a wide audience.

This work examines viability theory and its applications to control theory and differential games.

The purpose of the present book is to offer an up-to-date account of the theory of viscosity solutions of first order partial differential equations of Hamilton-Jacobi type and its applications to optimal deterministic control and differential games.

"e;I believe that the authors have written a first-class book which can be used for a second or third year graduate level course in the subject.

This self-contained work is an introductory presentation of basic ideas, structures, and results of differential and integral calculus for functions of several variables.

A new edition in a single volume Over the past decade, more and more sophisticaced mathematical tools and approaches have been incorporated in the ?

Mathematical Control Theory: An Introduction presents, in a mathematically precise manner, a unified introduction to deterministic control theory.

The primary focus of this book is on explicating the direct method approach.

The theory of dynamic games continues to evolve, and one purpose of this volume is to report a number of recent theoretical advances in the ?

This is a revised and extended version of my 1995 elementary introduction to partial di?

This little book is a revised and expanded version of one I wrote for the "e;VIII Latin American School of Mathematics"e; [29], in Portuguese, based on which I have periodically taught a topics course over the last 18 years.