Optimization

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades.

The field of artificial economics (AE) embraces a broad range of methodologies relying on computer simulations in order to model and study the complexity of economic and social phenomena.

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field.

This book deals with situations where objectives of participants of the game are partially cooperative and partially conflicting.

The objective of this book is to provide a valuable compendium of problems as a reference for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and practitioners of operations research and management science.

This textbook provides a hands-on and intuitive overview of the methodological foundations of experimental economics.

A comprehensive study of the connection game genre, Connection Games provides a survey of known connection games while exploring common themes and strategies.

The quadratic binary optimization problem (QUBO) is a versatile combinatorial optimization model with a variety of applications and rich theoretical properties.

Master the design and operation of perfusion cell cultures with this authoritative reference.

This volume is a collection of chapters covering the latest developments in applications of financial mathematics and statistics to topics in energy, commodity financial markets and environmental economics.

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

The Proceedings volume contains 16 contributions to the IMPA conference "e;New Trends in Parameter Identification for Mathematical Models"e;, Rio de Janeiro, Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2017, integrating the "e;Chemnitz Symposium on Inverse Problems on Tour"e;.

A host of digital affordances, including reduced cost production tools, open distribution platforms, and ubiquitous connectivity, have engendered the growth of indie games among makers and users, forcing critics to reconsider the question of who makes games and why.

The main purpose of the present book is to develop a general framework for population-based metaheuristics based on some basic concepts of set theory.

This is the first of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing.

This is a technical overview of the field of adversarial machine learning which has emerged to study vulnerabilities of machine learning approaches in adversarial settings and to develop techniques to make learning robust to adversarial manipulation.

This book about mathematics and methodology for economics is the result of the lifelong experience of the authors.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Engineering (ICCE 2017), held in Darmstadt, Germany on September 28-29, 2017.

This book focuses on methods that relate, in one form or another, to the "e;small-gain theorem"e;.

This collection of selected, revised and extended contributions resulted from a Workshop on BSDEs, SPDEs and their Applications that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2017 and included the 8th World Symposium on BSDEs.

This book is addressed to researchers in operations research, data science and artificial intelligence.

Award-winning monograph of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 2003.

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field.

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science is to provide decision makers and problem solvers in business, industry, government, and academia a comprehensive overview of the wide range of ideas, methodologies, and synergistic forces that combine to form the preeminent decision-aiding fields of operations research and management science (OR/MS).

This clear and concise textbook provides a rigorous introduction to the calculus of variations, depending on functions of one variable and their first derivatives.

This book covers mathematical foundations and methods for the computerized analysis of shapes, providing the requisite background in geometry and functional analysis and introducing various algorithms and approaches to shape modeling, with a special focus on the interesting connections between shapes and their transformations by diffeomorphisms.

As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game.

Nonconvexity and nonsmoothness arise in a large class of engineering applica- tions.

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

The book presents a set of novel, efficient and systematic concurrent multiscale optimization methods by considering the distribution of the material in macro-scale and the unit-cell configuration design in micro-scale simultaneously.

This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which is of paramount importance in the aftermath of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

The book explains basic ideas behind several kinds of applied multi-objective optimization and shows how it will be applied in practical contexts in the domain of healthcare, engineering design, and manufacturing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2014, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in November 2014.

This text is based on a lecture course given by the authors in the framework of Oberwolfach Seminars at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in May, 2013.

An industrial book that analyses various theoretical problems, optimizes numerical applications and addresses industrial problems such as belt-conveyor bridge, pipeline, wind turbine power, large-span suspended roof and offshore jacket member.

This book aims at improving the mathematical modelling skills of users by enhancing the ability to understand, connect, apply and use the mathematical concepts to the problem at hand.

This book offers a comprehensive collection of the most advanced numerical techniques for the efficient and effective solution of simulation and optimization problems governed by systems of time-dependent differential equations.

Dieser Band Numerische Mathematik hat Prinzipien des numerischen Rechnens, numerische lineare Algebra und Näherungsmethoden in der Analysis zum Inhalt.

This second volume of conference proceedings contains selected papers presented at ICGEC 2023, the 15th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, held on October 6-8, 2023 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

This book has two main objectives: *  to provide a concise introduction to nonlinear optimization methods, which can be used as a textbook at a graduate or upper undergraduate level; *  to collect and organize selected important topics on optimization algorithms, not easily found in textbooks, which can provide material for advanced courses or can serve as a reference text for self-study and research.

It was generally believed that the study of probability theory was started by Pascal and Fermat in 1654 when they succeeded in deriving the exact probabilitiesforcertaingamblingproblem.

This classroom-tested undergraduate textbook is primarily intended for a general education course in game theory at the freshman or sophomore level.

This book is the first comprehensive tutorial on matheuristics.

Simple, clear explanations of twenty ways in which mathematics helps us to understand practical issues of everyday life.

This book includes a self-contained theory of inequality problems and their applications to unilateral mechanics.

It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions.