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…
Elements of Convex Analysis and Separation -- to Image Space Analysis -- Alternative and Separation -- Optimality Conditions. Preliminary Results.Over the last twenty years, Professor Franco Giannessi, a highly respected researcher, has been working on an approach to optimization theory based on image space analysis. His theory has been elaborated by many other researchers in a wealth of papers…
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…
Prerequisites -- Invariant Measures -- The Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem -- The Central Limit Theorem -- More on Ergodicity -- Homeomorphisms of the Circle -- Mod 2 Uniform Distribution -- Entropy -- The Lyapunov Exponent: One-Dimensional Case -- The Lyapunov Exponent: Multidimensional Case -- Stable and Unstable Manifolds -- Recurrence and Entropy -- Recurrence and Dimension -- Data Compression.Erg…
Convergence -- Finite Differences -- Eigenvalues -- The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method -- The Finite Element Method -- The Method of Moments -- Summary and Overview.Computational Electromagnetics is a young and growing discipline, expanding as a result of the steadily increasing demand for software for the design and analysis of electrical devices. This book introduces three of the most p…
General Principles, Theories, and Models of Pattern Formation -- and Outline -- On the Origin of Patterns -- Mathematical Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation -- Cellular Automaton Modeling -- Cellular Automata -- Applications -- Random Movement -- Growth Processes -- Adhesive Cell Interaction -- Alignment and Cellular Swarming -- Pigment Cell Pattern Formation -- Tissue and Tumor Developme…
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…
Transformations of the Plane -- Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformations of the Plane -- Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformations of Space -- Projections and the Viewing Pipeline -- Curves -- Bézier Curves I -- Bézier Curves II -- B-splines -- Surfaces -- Curve and Surface Curvatures -- Rendering.Focusing on the manipulation and representation of geometrical objects, this book explores …
Fundamentals of Anisotropic Elasticity and Analytical Methodologies -- Anisotropic Materials -- Plane Deformation Analysis -- Solution Methodologies -- Foundations of Anisotropic Beam Analysis -- Beams of General Anisotropy -- Homogeneous, Uncoupled Monoclinic Beams -- Non-Homogeneous Plane and Beam Analysis -- Solid Coupled Monoclinic Beams -- Thin-Walled Coupled Monoclinic Beams -- Program De…
Repeated and Stochastic Games -- Information and the Existence of Stationary Markovian Equilibrium -- Markov Games under a Geometric Drift Condition -- A Simple Two-Person Stochastic Game with Money -- New Approaches and Recent Advances in Two-Person Zero-Sum Repeated Games -- Notes on Risk-Sensitive Nash Equilibria -- Continuous Convex Stochastic Games of Capital Accumulation -- Differential D…