Geostatistics -- The genesis of geostatistics in gold and diamond industries -- Concepts and Methods of Geostatistics -- Prediction by conditional simulation: models and algorithms -- Flow in porous media: An attempt to outline Georges Matheron’s contributions -- Over Thirty Years of Petroleum Geostatistics -- The expansion of environmental geostatistics -- Random Sets -- Random Closed Sets -…
Two Classical Optimization Problems -- Gauss’ Question -- What Does Solution Mean? -- Network Design Problems -- A New Challenge: The Phylogeny -- An Analysis of Steiner’s Problem in Phylogenetic Spaces -- Tree Building Algorithms.The problem of "Shortest Connectivity" has a long and convoluted history: given a finite set of points in a metric space, search for a network that connects these…
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 -- …
Modeling Text Databases -- An Overview of Probabilistic and Time Series Models in Finance -- Stereological Estimation of the Rose of Directions from the Rose of Intersections -- Approximations for Multiple Scan Statistics -- Krawtchouk Polynomials and Krawtchouk Matrices -- An Elementary Rigorous Introduction to Exact Sampling -- On the Different Extensions of the Ergodic Theorem of Information…
Quadratic Programming Problems -- Existence Theorems for Quadratic Programs -- Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for Quadratic Programs -- Properties of the Solution Sets of Quadratic Programs -- Affine Variational Inequalities -- Solution Existence for Affine Variational Inequalities -- Upper-Lipschitz Continuity of the Solution Map in Affine Variational Inequalities -- Linear Fra…
Perface -- Chapter 1 Cloning and characterization of genes invovled in the biomineralization of pearl oyster -- Chapter 2 Characterization and functions of proteins invovled in the biomineralization of pearl oyster -- Chapter 3 Study of enzymes involved in the biomineralization of pearl oyster -- Chapter 4 Cell culture and related biomineralization study of pearl oyster -- Chapter 5 Cell signal…
Introduction -- 1. Quantities and Measures -- 2. Variables and Functions -- 3. Trigonometry, Geometry of Plane and Space -- 4. Cartography -- 5. Derivation -- Integration and Differential Equations.This undergraduate textbook presents a unique comprehensive overview on Mathematics in Earth Sciences and Geography. It deals with fundamental theoretical and applied mathematics, needed by bachelor …
Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Landscape -- Chapter 2 -- Satluj Floodplain: Patterns of Landscape Transformation -- Chapter 3 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Hazardscape -- Chapter4 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Possible Green Habitat.This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception. As a landscape this floodplain entity evolves and sets a niche to distinctiv…
Horizontal examination: Micro-Segregation mechanism in the diverse area of Whitechapel -- Vertical examination of residential patterns in Whitechapel -- The role of Community housing in generating nests of residualisation -- Effects of identity and belonging on residential experiences, perceptions and practices of the undocumented population in Whitechapel -- Whitechapel Road: Between Group Beh…
Line Search Descent Methods for Unconstrained Minimization -- Standard Methods for Constrained Optimization -- New Gradient-Based Trajectory and Approximation Methods -- Example Problems -- Some Theorems.This book presents basic optimization principles and gradient-based algorithms to a general audience, in a brief and easy-to-read form without neglecting rigour. The work should enable the prof…