Calculus of variations books

Energy is one of the world`s most challenging problems, and power systems are an important aspect of energy related...  Read More >>

Regularity of Minimal Surfaces begins with a survey of minimal surfaces with free boundaries. Following this, the...  Read More >>

Project scheduling problems are, generally speaking, the problems of allocating scarce resources over time to perform...  Read More >>

viii Preface Other talks were dedicated to specific problems of the calculus of variations: variational theory of...  Read More >>

Chapter 6 investigates the important role of separation axioms in lattice-valued topology from the perspective...  Read More >>

This volume contains the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "" Frontiers of Chemical...  Read More >>

It is clear that fault diagnosis (including fault detection and isolation, FDI) has been becoming an important subject...  Read More >>

The numerous applications of optimal control theory have given an incentive to the development of approximate techniques...  Read More >>

Convexity of sets in linear spaces, and concavity and convexity of functions, lie at the root of beautiful theoretical...  Read More >>

This title introduces advances in the field of genetic algorithm optimization for 0-1 programming, integer programming,...  Read More >>

Fuzzy Sets in Decision Analysis, Operations Research and Statistics includes chapters on fuzzy preference modeling,...  Read More >>

Impulsive Control in Continuous and Discrete-Continuous Systems is an up-to-date introduction to the theory of impulsive...  Read More >>

Computational Techniques of the Simplex Method is a systematic treatment focused on the computational issues of...  Read More >>

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have grown into a mature field of research in optimization, and have proven to be...  Read More >>

Scatter Search (SS)-together with its generalized form called Path Relinking-constitutes the only evolutionary approach...  Read More >>

Books on computation in the marketplace tend to discuss the topics within specific fields. This book selects Java...  Read More >>

Award-winning monograph of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 2003. This book contains a detailed mathematical...  Read More >>

The exponential growth of Internet brings to focus the need to control such large scale networks so that they appear...  Read More >>

This book is a compilation of a selected subset of research articles presented at the Eighth INFORMS Computing Society...  Read More >>

1.1 AN OVERVIEW OF MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES The theory of Markov Decision Processes-also known under several other...  Read More >>

Entropy optimization is a useful combination of classical engineering theory (entropy) with mathematical optimization....  Read More >>

Driven by the request for increased productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness, modern civilization increasingly...  Read More >>

In wntmg this monograph my aim has been to present a ""geometric"" approach to the structural synthesis of multivariable...  Read More >>

Rule-based fuzzy modeling has been recognised as a powerful technique for the modeling of partly-known nonlinear...  Read More >>

Constraint Programming is a problem-solving paradigm that establishes a clear distinction between two pivotal aspects...  Read More >>