Basics -- Introduction -- Linear Programming Prerequisites -- Nonlinear Programming Prerequisites -- Single-stage SLP Models -- Introduction -- Models involving Probability Functions -- Quantile Functions, Value at Risk -- Models Based on Expectation -- Models Built with Deviation Measures -- Modeling Risk and Opportunity -- Risk Measures -- Multi-stage SLP Models -- The General SLP with Recour…
Classical Techniques -- Integer Programming -- Genetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming -- Tabu Search -- Simulated Annealing -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Constraint Programming -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Complexity Theory and the No Free Lunch Theorem -- Machine Learning -- Artificial Immune Systems -- Swarm Intelligence -- Fuzzy Reasoning -- Rough Set Based Decision Support -- …
Methods of Solving Ill-Posed Problems -- One-Dimensional Inverse Scattering and Spectral Problems -- Inverse Obstacle Scattering -- Stability of the Solutions to 3D Inverse Scattering Problems with Fixed-Energy Data -- Non-Uniqueness and Uniqueness Results -- Inverse Problems of Potential Theory and Other Inverse Source Problems -- Non-Overdetermined Inverse Problems -- Low-Frequency Inversion …
Lévy Processes in Euclidean Spaces and Groups -- Locally Compact Quantum Groups -- Quantum Stochastic Analysis - an Introduction -- Dilations, Cocycles and Product Systems.This volume is the first of two volumes containing the revised and completed notes lectures given at the school "Quantum Independent Increment Processes: Structure and Applications to Physics". This school was held at the Al…
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…
Operators on Sequences -- Basic Rank Selectors, Pulses and Impulses -- LULU-Smoothers, Signals and Ambiguity -- LULU-Intervals, Noise and Co-idempotence -- Smoothing and Approximation with Signals -- Variation Reduction and Shape Preservation -- Multiresolution Analysis of Sequences -- The Discrete Pulse Transform -- Fair Comparison with Linear Smoothers -- Interpretation and Future.This monogr…
Topology Optimization with the Homogenization and the Level-Set Methods -- Thin Films of Active Materials -- The Passage from Discrete to Continuous Variational Problems: a Nonlinear Homogenization Process -- Approaches to Nonconvex Variational Problems of Mechanics -- On G-Compactness of the Beltrami Operators -- Homogenization and Optimal Design in Structural Mechanics -- Homogenization and D…
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…
Multiscale Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Elliptic Problems with Multiple Scales -- Discrete Network Approximation for Highly-Packed Composites with Irregular Geometry in Three Dimensions -- Adaptive Monte Carlo Algorithms for Stopped Diffusion -- The Heterogeneous Multi-Scale Method for Homogenization Problems -- A Coarsening Multigrid Method for Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media -- On th…