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This book documents the state of the art in combinatorial optimization, presenting approximate solutions of virtually all relevant classes of NP-hard optimization problems. The wealth of problems, algorithms, results, and techniques make it an indispensible source of reference for professionals.

From its origins in the minimization of integral functionals, the notion of variations has evolved greatly in connection with applications in optimization, equilibrium, and control.

With a Historical Introduction by Andre Luiten

This book puts numerical methods in action for the purpose of solving practical problems in quantitative finance. It fills a gap in the current published literature by delivering a case-study collection together with a self-contained course on major numerical methods developed and used by the finance industry.

A very basic introduction to category theory is presented in the beginning of Chapter 10 and the remainder of the chapter is an introduction to the methods of categorical topology as it relates to the Stone-Cech compactification.

Starting with an elementary overview of the basic wave concept, specific wave phenomena are then examined, including: surface gravity waves, internal gravity waves, lee waves, waves in the presence of rotation, and geostrophic adjustment.

Nowadays, newly developed software packages are often obsolete already at the time of their introduction. Object-oriented software development is a possible - if not the only - solution to this dilemma. This book provides a detailed description of the object model of the Cache post relational database.

Since SAP is emphasizing recent developments in operations management in its SCM initiative, this book describes the methodological background from the viewpoint of a company using SAP systems. It describes order processing both in an intra- and interorganizational perspective, as well as describing future developments and system enhancements.

Before use, standard ERP systems such as SAP R/3 need to be customized to meet the concrete requirements of the individual enterprise. This book provides an overview of the process models, methods, and tools offered by SAP and its partners to support this complex and time-consuming process.

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Distributed decision making (DDM) has become of increasing importance in quantitative decision analysis. The book provides a unified approach to such seemingly diverse fields as multi-level stochastic programming, hierarchical production planning, principal agent theory, negotiations or contract theory.

In democratic systems the electoral institutions provide ways of peaceful adjustment to changes in popular opinions. This book is about uncertainty as it pertains to electoral institutions. We shall also discuss how uncertainty pertains to electoral outcomes.

Part 2.1:Cerebral Ischemia; Vascular Tumors of the Head and Neck; Traumatic Arteriovenous Fistulae; Aneurysms. Part 2.2: Cerebral Arteriovenous Shunts; Spinal Arteriovenous Shunts; Spinal Vascular Tumors; Technical Aspects of Endovascular Neurosurgery

Experiments with rubber balloons and rubber sheets have led to surprising observations, some of them hitherto unknown or not previously described in the literature.

Demonstrates the applicability of fundamental principles, such as Newton's Three Laws of Motion, the Law of Conservation of Energy, the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, and of other physical relations in hydraulics and groundwater hydrology by discussions of natural processes which form sediments and sedimentary rocks.

It has been ten years since I presented the paper entitled "A new model and theory on yield and failure of materials under the complex stress state" at the Sixth Conference on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials held at Kyoto, Japan in 1991.

The M logic goes an important step further than the BP logic in that it can distinguish between certain types of information supply sentences which have the same representation in the BP logic as well as in traditional first order logic, although they clearly have different meanings (see example 6.

These short notes, already well-known in their original French edition, present the basic theory of semisimple Lie algebras over the complex numbers. The last chapter discusses the connection between Lie algebras, complex groups and compact groups.

A kitchen is no different from most science laboratories and cookery may properly be regarded as an experimental science. This book explains the principles behind taste, flavour and the main methods of food preparation, and gives fool-proof basic recipes for dishes from roast leg of lab to chocolate souffle.

Basic research and new manufacturing methods have led to high nitrogen steels (HNS), a promising new group of materials for use in advanced applications in mechanical and chemical engineering.

In this fully updated and revised second edition the authors provide the newcomer and the experienced practitioner with a balanced and comprehensive insight into all important DSC methods, including a sound presentation of the theoretical basis of DSC and TMDSC measurements.

This book examines the evolvability and robustness of an evolutionary GRN paradigm, in simple differentiated multicellularity and in evolving artificial 'organisms' which grow and express an ontogeny from a single cell to a changing neighborhood of cells.

This book examines stability loss problems of viscoelastic composite materials and structural members via the the Three-Dimensional Linearized Theory of Stability showing that equations and relations of these problems coincide with corresponding ones in TDLTS.

This book discusses railways as complex distributed engineering systems, and analyzes the important functional and safety concerns in the design of electromagnetic rail systems, whether new or modernized, as a support to analysis, testing and demonstration.

This book describes a combination of orthogonal supramolecular interactions for the design of functional monolayer architectures on surfaces, that can be used as chemical and biosensors in a wide range of applications.

Thoroughly revised for its 2nd edition, this book presents state-of-the-art coverage of stellar physics, and interprets sophisticated current stellar models. A comprehensive view of the physics of the stellar interior and underlying processes and parameters.

The book covers geobotanical mapping, which deals with the interpretation and representation of spatial and temporal phenomena that pertain to flora, vegetation, vegetated landscapes, vegetation zones, and phytogeographical units.

This book provides an example of a thorough statistical treatment of ocean wave data in space and time. Furthermore, the book addresses the question of whether climate change has an effect of the ocean wave climate, and if so what that effect might be.

This book covers the development and application of highly precise astronomical space-time reference systems that refer to remote celestial objects rather than the motion of the Earth. Includes exercises with solutions, and illustrative files created in Maple.

This book covers the basic theory of how, what and when firms should produce to maximize profits. It shows how to build and apply linear programming for production planning and features numerous illustrative examples.