Bücher der Reihe Applied Optimization

Presents the fundamentals of the Parameter Space Investigation method for the statement and solution of optimization problems, a tool for multicriteria optimization in engineering. This title is intended for research workers and graduate students who work in the field of aerospace engineering, mechanics, electrical and electronic engineering.

Because of the rapidly developing and interdisciplinary nature of the subject, there are only a few edited volumes consisting of research papers on intelligent control systems but little is known and published about the fundamentals and the general know-how in designing, implementing and operating intelligent control systems.

The first elementary exposition of core ideas of complexity theory for convex optimization, this book explores optimal methods and lower complexity bounds for smooth and non-smooth convex optimization. Also covers polynomial-time interior-point methods.

In this respect, the course built further on the achievements of the "Nordic Network in Mathematical Programming" , which has been running during the last three years with the support ofthe Nordic Council for Advanced Studies (NorFA).

Starts with the basic concepts of Fuzzy Logic: the membership function, the intersection and the union of fuzzy sets, fuzzy numbers, and the extension principle underlying the algorithmic operations. This book includes chapters devoted to applications of Fuzzy Logic in Operations Research.

A basic problem for the interconnection of communications media is to design interconnection networks for specific needs. Chapter 3 addresses Bruijn digraphs, Kautz digraphs, and their generalizations, which are candidates for networks of minimum diameter and maximum connectivity with given degree and number of nodes.

Contains fourteen chapters on developments in theory, computation, and practice in a wide variety of areas in transportation research such as the reliability of transportation networks, parking management policies, fuzzy traffic signal control, and the workings of a demand-responsive park and ride transport system.

At the same time, we try to present a quick overview of the impact of extensions of IPMs on smooth nonlinear optimization and to demonstrate the potential of IPMs for solving difficult practical problems.

Covers the implications of interior techniques for the field of mathematical programming. This book provides theoretical as well as computational results, explains the intuition behind the main ideas, gives examples as well as proofs, and contains a bibliography.

In Part I, the fundamentals of financial thinking and elementary mathematical methods of finance are presented. The method of presentation is simple enough to bridge the elements of financial arithmetic and complex models of financial math developed in the later parts.

Linear Programming provides an in-depth look at simplex based as well as the more recent interior point techniques for solving linear programming problems.

In this respect, the course built further on the achievements of the "Nordic Network in Mathematical Programming" , which has been running during the last three years with the support ofthe Nordic Council for Advanced Studies (NorFA).

About 60 scientists and students attended the 96' International Conference on Nonlinear Programming, which was held September 2-5 at Institute of Compu tational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing (ICMSEC), Chi nese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

grams of which the objective is given by the ratio of a convex by a positive (over a convex domain) concave function. More recently, this algorithm has been used by Carrizosa and Plastria to solve a global optimization problem in facility location (Ref.

Parallel and distributed computation has been gaining a great lot of attention in the last decades. Parallel and distributed computation differs from dassical sequential compu tation in some of the following major aspects: the number of processing units, independent local dock for each unit, the number of memory units, and the programming model.

These interests span the areas of Traffic Assignment, Network Equilibrium, Shortest Paths, Railroad problems, De mand models, Variational Inequalities, Intelligent Transportation Systems, etc.

THE PROCESS OF HUMAN JUDGMENT Human judgment is a process through which an individual uses social infonnation to make decisions. The social infonnation is obtained from an individual's environment and is interpreted through the individual's cognitive image of the environment.

Computing has become essential for the modeling, analysis, and optimization of systems. This book is devoted to algorithms, computational analysis, and decision models. The chapters are organized in two parts: optimization models of decisions and models of pricing and equilibria.

Though the volume covers 22 papers by 36 authors from 12 countries, the history in the background is bound to Hungary where, in 1973 Andras Pnkopa started to lay the foundation of a scientific forum, which can be a regular meeting spot for experts of the world in the field.

Continuous optimization is the study of problems in which we wish to opti mize (either maximize or minimize) a continuous function (usually of several variables) often subject to a collection of restrictions on these variables.

In February 2002, the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) De partment at the University of Florida hosted a National Science Founda tion Workshop on Collaboration and Negotiation in Supply Chain Man agement and E Commerce.

The likely audience for this book includes professional researchers, who want to enrich their tool set for applied efficiency analysis, as well as students of economics, management science or operations research, in tending to learn more about the potentials of rigorously understood efficiency analysis.

The global market and competition play a crucial part in the decision making processes within the Space and Air industries and this book gives practical examples of how advanced applications can be used by Space and Air industry management.

A collection of results in various fields of theoretical and applied optimization and related topics. It contains survey papers on second order non-smooth analysis, based on subjects, multiplicative programs and C-programming, optimal algorithms in emergent computation, the extremal principle and its applications.

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When analyzing systems with a large number of parameters, the dimen sion of the original system may present insurmountable difficulties for the analysis.

Discusses a fresh approach to the classification problem following the decision support orientation of multicriteria decision aid. This book reviews the research on the development of classification methods, investigating the corresponding model development procedures. It is suitable for researchers and professionals working in management science.

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