Calculus of variations books

The book focuses on classical boundary value problems for the principal equations of mathematical physics: second...  Read More >>

The main purpose of this work is construction of the mathematical theory of elastic plates and shells, by means...  Read More >>

Presenting information concerning quasidifferentiability and related topics, this book is a collection of results...  Read More >>

The book covers a wide range of known models, from classical (Cobb-Douglass production function, Leontief input-output...  Read More >>

A collection of results in various fields of theoretical and applied optimization and related topics. It contains...  Read More >>

Book I considers the zero-sum game that results when the target (here called the Hider) does not want to be found....  Read More >>

This book presents a view of optimization independent of any discipline. This new edition contains two new chapters,...  Read More >>

This monograph (the second of two volumes) deals with non scalar variational problems arising in geometry, as harmonic...  Read More >>

Presently, general-purpose optimization techniques such as Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms, have become...  Read More >>

Decomposition methods aim to reduce large-scale problems to simpler problems. For fixed weights, successively...  Read More >>

Sanchez-Palencia [94] and others stress that it is necessary to consider how thin inclusions/cracks exert their...  Read More >>

In particular, the material of the chapters on continued fractions (Chapter 2), symplectic systems (Chapter 3),...  Read More >>

During the last decades, considerable progress has been observed in all aspects regarding the study of cooperative...  Read More >>

The present book is the outcome of efforts to introduce topological connectedness as one of the basic tools for...  Read More >>

Chapter 2 solves the problem of optimal control of bilinear systems on the basis of di?er- tial geometry methods....  Read More >>

Written by leading experts in complementarity, duality, global optimization, and quantum computations, this collection,...  Read More >>

Given its broad applicability, a comprehensive understanding of quadratic programming is a valuable resource in...  Read More >>

This book, like its companion volume Nonlinear Optimization with Financial Applications, is an outgrowth of undergraduate...  Read More >>

Offers a comprehensive mathematical theory of duality for general non-convex, non-smooth systems, with emphasis...  Read More >>

Excepting Sections 1 and 3 in Chapter 1 and Sections 1 and 3 in Chapter 2, the material is new in comparison with...  Read More >>

Many questions dealing with solvability, stability and solution methods for va- ational inequalities or equilibrium,...  Read More >>

This is the main distinction of the present book from a large number of books devoted to theory of extremal problems,...  Read More >>

Probabilistic and percentile/quantile functions play an important role in several applications, such as finance...  Read More >>

The scientific monograph of a survey kind presented to the reader's attention deals with fundamental ideas and basic...  Read More >>

Fully Tuned Radial Basis Function Neural Networks for Flight Control presents the use of the Radial Basis Function...  Read More >>