Mathematics

Diverse as they are in their histories and in the organization of their forest sectors, most Nordic countries have this in common: their economies and cultures are substantially based on the utilization of various forest resources.

This textbook presents an exposition of stochastic dynamics and irreversibility.

In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies' profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising.

How does one determine how similar two maps are?

In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items.

The book focuses on Social Collective Intelligence, a term used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strengths of humans, machines and collectives in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities with the communication, computing and storage capabilities of advanced ICT.

This book deals with the theory, design principles, and application of hybrid intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy sets in combination with other paradigms of Soft Computing technology such as Neuro-Computing and Evolutionary Computing.

This book describes the computational challenges posed by the progression toward nanoscale electronic devices and increasingly short design cycles in the microelectronics industry, and proposes methods of model reduction which facilitate circuit and device simulation for specific tasks in the design cycle.

This book introduces the basic techniques and methods traditionally used in speaking about science to the public.

This book examines the theoretical foundations underpinning the field of strength of materials/theory of elasticity, beginning from the origins of the modern theory of elasticity.

The main focus of this thesis is the mathematical structure of Group Field Theories (GFTs) from the point of view of renormalization theory.

This text seeks to generate interest in abstract algebra by introducing each new structure and topic via a real-world application.

Many problems in scientific computing are intractable with classical numerical techniques.

This book presents the latest results related to shells characterize and design shells, plates, membranes and other thin-walled structures, a multidisciplinary approach from macro- to nanoscale is required which involves the classical disciplines of mechanical/civil/materials engineering (design, analysis, and properties) and physics/biology/medicine among others.

This book covers virtually all of the engineering science and technological aspects of separating water from particulate solids in the mining industry.

This thesis presents a new method for following evolving interactions between coupled oscillatory systems of the kind that abound in nature.

This monograph deals with buckling and postbuckling behavior of thin plates and thin-walled structures with flat wall subjected to static and dynamic load.

The main interest of this research has been in understanding and characterizing large networks of human interactions as continuously changing objects.

This book provides an introduction to hypergraphs, its aim being to overcome the lack of recent manuscripts on this theory.

Das Buch umfasst die folgenden Themen:– Funktionen– Folgen und Reihen– Grenzwerte– Differenzialrechnung– IntegralrechnungIn dieser umfassenden Aufgabensammlung beginnt jedes Kapitel mit Einstiegsfragen oder Einführungsbeispielen, sodass die Lernenden ein Thema zuerst selbstständig erkunden können.

Der Lösungsband zum neuen DMK-Lehrwerk «Analysis» wurde mit grösster Sorgfalt erarbeitet.

Tsunamis and hurricanes continue to have a devastating impact on the population living near the coast.

This book provides a self-contained presentation of the statistical tools required for evaluating public programs, as advocated by many governments, the World Bank, the European Union, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

This contributed volume is an exciting product of the 22nd MAVI conference, which presents cutting-edge research on affective issues in teaching and learning math.

This book examines statistical techniques that are critically important to Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC) activities.

This thesis describes a new connection between algebraic geometry, topology, number theory and quantum field theory.

This book discusses a variety of methods for outlier ensembles and organizes them by the specific principles with which accuracy improvements are achieved.

This book develops a new approach called parameter advising for finding a parameter setting for a sequence aligner that yields a quality alignment of a given set of input sequences.

Liebe und Mathematik – das geht nicht zusammen?

Disordered systems are statistical mechanics models in random environments.

by Ivor Grattan-Guinness Until twenty years ago the outline history of logicism was well known.

This book systematically presents recent fundamental results on greedy approximation with respect to bases.

Linearization models for discrete and continuous time dynamical systems are the driving forces for modern geometric function theory and composition operator theory on function spaces.

In this monograph, we combine operator techniques with state space methods to solve factorization, spectral estimation, and interpolation problems arising in control and signal processing.

Many complex signals in computer graphics, such as point distributions and textures, cannot be efficiently synthesized and stored.

Over the past half century, reverse osmosis (RO) has grown from a nascent niche technology into the most versatile and effective desalination and advanced water treatment technology available.

This book presents and details the process of quantization of a classical mechanical system in a relevant physical system, the harmonic oscillator.

This book reviews recent advances in symbolic execution and its probabilistic variant and discusses how they can be used to ensure the safety and security of software systems.

Smartphone users have come to expect high-quality apps.

The SIR - model supported by a new density and its derivatives receive a statistical data background from frequency distributions, from whose parameter values over the new density distribution a quality-oriented probability of the respective infection process and its future can be concluded.

Impending technological advances will widen an adversary's attack plane over the next decade.

This book treats all of the most commonly used theories of the integral.

In the history of modern computation, large mechanical calculators preceded computers.

This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems.

This textbook is unique because of its in-depth treatment of the applications of wavelets and wavelet transforms to many areas, across many disciplines.

This book presents the state-of-the-art methodology and detailed analytical models and methods used to assess the reliability of complex systems and related applications in statistical reliability engineering.

The book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Electrical Engineering.

The book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Electrical Engineering.

A compact and easily accessible book, it guides the reader in unravelling the apparent mysteries found in doing mathematical proofs.

In this book the authors aim to endow the reader with an operational, conceptual, and methodological understanding of the discrete mathematics that can be used to study, understand, and perform computing.