Preliminaries -- Manufacturing Models -- Service Models -- Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing -- Project Planning and Scheduling -- Machine Scheduling and Job Shop Scheduling -- Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems -- Economic Lot Scheduling -- Planning and Scheduling in Supply Chains -- Planning and Scheduling in Services -- Interval Scheduling, Reservations, and Timetabling -- Schedu…
Batch Presorting Problems. I Models and Solution Approaches -- Batch Presorting Problems. II Applications in Inventory Logistics -- Vehicle Routing Problems in Hospital Transportation. I Models and Solution Approaches -- Vehicle Routing Problems in Hospital Transportation. II Applications and Case Studies -- Summary.This books covers the analysis and development of online algorithms involving e…
Atomistic Models -- Lattice Gas Models and Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Epitaxial Growth -- Cluster Diffusion and Island Formation on fcc(111) Metal Surfaces Studied by Atomic Scale Computer Simulations -- A Multiscale Study of the Epitaxial CVD of Si from Chlorosilanes -- Off-lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Strained Heteroepitaxial Growth -- Quasicontinuum Monte Carlo Simulati…
An Energetic Variational Formulation with Phase Field Methods for Interfacial Dynamics of Complex Fluids: Advantages and Challenges -- Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Nematic Liquids -- Anisotropy and Heterogeneity of Nematic Polymer Nano-Composite Film Properties -- Non-Newtonian Constitutive Equations Using the Orientational Order Parameter -- Surface Order Forces in Nematic Liquid C…
Basic Material -- Approximation of Integrals -- Boundary Layer Behaviour -- Two-Point Boundary Value Problems -- Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems -- Elliptic Boundary Value Problems -- Boundary Layers in Time -- Evolution Equations with Boundary Layers -- The Continuation Method -- Averaging and Timescales -- Advanced Averaging -- Averaging for Evolution Equations -- Wave Equations on Unbounde…
The Dilute Bose Gas in 3D -- The Dilute Bose Gas in 2D -- Generalized Poincaré Inequalities -- Bose-Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity for Homogeneous Gases -- Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for Trapped Bosons -- Bose-Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity for Dilute Trapped Gases -- One-Dimensional Behavior of Dilute Bose Gases in Traps -- Two-Dimensional Behavior in Disc-Shaped Traps -- The…
Mathematics, Art and Architecture -- Mathematics, Art and Architecture -- From Tiling the Plane to Paving Town Square -- Mathematics in Contemporary Arts — Finite and Infinity -- De Insana Geometria -- Ovals in Borromini’s Geometry -- Fractals: A Resonance between Art and Nature -- Mathland — From Topology to Virtual Architecture -- Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics -- Introduction…
General introduction -- Continuous-time dynamical systems -- Discrete-time dynamical systems -- Game theory and evolution -- Markov chains and diffusions -- Random arborescent models -- Statistics.Proposing a wide range of mathematical models that are currently used in life sciences may be regarded as a challenge, and that is precisely the challenge that this book takes up. Of course this panor…
Fundamentals -- Overview of Meshfree Methods -- Meshfree Shape Function Construction -- Meshfree Methods Based on Global Weak-Forms -- Meshfree Methods Based on Local Weak-Forms -- Meshfree Collocation Methods -- Meshfree Methods Based on Combination of Local Weak-Form and Collocation.This book aims to present meshfree methods in a friendly and straightforward manner, so that beginners can very…
Cultura matematica, formazione e media -- La preparazione matematica delle matricole nelle università europee: risultati di un test -- Metodi statistici per la misurazione delle competenze: analisi della preparazione matematica delle matricole -- Matematica e media: strumenti, aspettative, risultati -- I problemi della matematica nel Regno Unito -- Metamorph da Escher all’architettura virtua…