Stability of dynamical systems, bifurcations, and generic properties -- Discrete invariants of dynamical systems -- Entropy and topological aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and metric aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and measure theoretic aspects of dynamical systems -- Smooth dynamical systems -- Cellular automata and Boolean networks as examples of discrete dynamical systems.Our…
Prologue and Preliminaries -- Introduction, Overview, and Examples -- Mathematical Preliminaries -- Asymptotic Properties -- Asymptotic Expansions -- Occupation Measures -- Exponential Bounds -- Interim Summary and Extensions -- Applications -- Stability of Dynamic Systems -- Filtering -- Markov Decision Processes -- LQ Controls -- Mean-Variance Controls -- Production Planning -- Stochastic App…
Surveys -- Linear Semi-infinite Optimization: Recent Advances -- Some Theoretical Aspects of Newton’s Method for Constrained Best Interpolation -- Optimization Methods in Direct and Inverse Scattering -- On Complexity of Stochastic Programming Problems -- Nonlinear Optimization in Modeling Environments -- Supervised Data Classification via Max-min Separability -- A Review of Applications of t…
Problem Definition and Survey -- A Survey on Location Problems with Applications in Telecommunications -- QCL-C: Relaxations and Special Cases -- Polyhedral Analysis -- Uncapacitated Problems -- Problems with Linear Capacity Constraints -- Problems with Quadratic Capacity Constraints -- Summary of Results of Part II -- Solving QCL-C with Branch and Cut -- QCL-C: Formulations and Projection Ineq…
Cluster Analysis—Partitioning -- An Introduction to Branch-and-Bound Methods for Partitioning -- Minimum-Diameter Partitioning -- Minimum Within-Cluster Sums of Dissimilarities Partitioning -- Minimum Within-Cluster Sums of Squares Partitioning -- Multiobjective Partitioning -- Seriation -- to the Branch-and-Bound Paradigm for Seriation -- Seriation—Maximization of a Dominance Index -- Seri…
and Models of Manufacturing Systems -- Concept of Near—Optimal Control -- Models of Manufacturing Systems -- Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems: Existence and Characterization -- Optimal Control of Parallel—Machine Systems -- Optimal Control of Dynamic Flowshops -- Optimal Controls of Dynamic Jobshops -- Risk-Sensitive Control -- Near—Optimal Controls -- Near—Optimal Control of Pa…
Stochastic Calculus with Jump diffusions -- Optimal Stopping of Jump Diffusions -- Stochastic Control of Jump Diffusions -- Combined Optimal Stopping and Stochastic Control of Jump Diffusions -- Singular Control for Jump Diffusions -- Impulse Control of Jump Diffusions -- Approximating Impulse Control of Diffusions by Iterated Optimal Stopping -- Combined Stochastic Control and Impulse Control …
Supply Chain Operations -- Coordination of Inventory and Shipment Consolidation Decisions: A Review of Premises, Models, and Justification -- A Near-Optimal Order-Based Inventory Allocation Rule in an Assemble-To-Order System and its Applications to Resource Allocation Problems -- Improving Supply Chain Performance through Buyer Collaboration -- The Impact of New Supply Chain Management Practic…
Simple Calculations with MATLAB -- Writing Scripts and Functions -- Loops and Conditional Statements -- Root Finding -- Interpolation and Extrapolation -- Matrices -- Numerical Integration -- Solving Differential Equations -- Simulations and Random Numbers.MATLAB is a powerful programme, which naturally lends itself to the rapid implementation of most numerical algorithms. This text, which uses…
General Issues -- Learning User Preferences in Distributed Calendar Scheduling -- Semantic Components for Timetabling -- An Open Interactive Timetabling Tool -- Distributed Choice Function Hyper-heuristics for Timetabling and Scheduling -- Transport Timetabling -- A Hybridised Integer Programming and Local Search Method for Robust Train Driver Schedules Planning -- Logistics Service Network Des…