Linear & Nonlinear Programming

Awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 1994 for its valuable contributions to operations research and the management sciences, this mathematically rigorous book remains the standard reference on the linear complementarity problem. Its comprehensive...

Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory.'An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectual world' ObserverFrom the turbulence of the weather to the...

The Navier-Stokes equations describe the motion of fluids and are an invaluable addition to the toolbox of every physicist, applied mathematician, and engineer. The equations arise from applying Newton's laws of motion to a moving fluid and are...

Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Maths First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 The National 5 Maths Student Book helps map your...

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing...

There has been much excitement over the emergence of new mathematical techniques for the analysis and control of nonlinear systems. In addition, great technological advances have bolstered the impact of analytic advances and produced many new problems...

The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of...

The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. Simply stated, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly checked by computer can also be quickly solved by computer. The Golden Ticket...

Convex optimization problems arise frequently in many different fields. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and shows in detail how such problems can be solved numerically with great efficiency. The book begins with the basic...

Compressed sensing is a relatively recent area of research that refers to the recovery of high-dimensional but low-complexity objects from a limited number of measurements. The topic has applications to signal/image processing and computer algorithms,...

Linear Programming and Network Flows presents the problem of minimizing and maximizing a linear function in the presence of linear equality or inequality constraints. This text provides methods for modeling complex problems via effective algorithms on...

This book addresses modern nonlinear programming concepts and algorithms, especially as they apply to challenging applications in chemical process engineering. It relates the material to real-world problem classes in process optimisation, thus bridging...

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION Clearing the jungle of stochastic optimization Sequential decision problems, which consist of "decision, information, decision, information," are ubiquitous, spanning virtually every human activity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486428093Author Richard BellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Model Predictive Control (MPC), the dominant advanced control approach in industry over the past twenty-five years, is presented comprehensively in this unique book. With a simple, unified approach, and with attention to real-time implementation, it...

Set-valued, convex, and nonsmooth analysis are relatively modern branches of mathematical analysis and increasingly relevant in current control theory and control engineering literature. The first book of this scope and at this level, Set-Valued, Convex,...

This monograph presents new and elegant proofs of classical results and makes difficult results accessible. The integer programming models known as set packing and set covering have a wide range of applications. Sometimes, owing to the special structure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639893461Author Eden PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429280518Author University Vasek ChvatalFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

Global optimization is a rapidly growing field with powerful applications in applied mathematics and the physical sciences. This book provides a thorough overview of this area, with material on key topics such as complexity; heuristic methods; derivation...

Built on the framework of the successful first edition, this book serves as a modern introduction to the field of optimization. The author's objective is to provide the foundations of theory and algorithms of nonlinear optimization as well as to present...

Moment and polynomial optimization is an active research field used to solve difficult questions in many areas, including global optimization, tensor computation, saddle points, Nash equilibrium, and bilevel programs, and it has many applications. The...

This reprint of the 1969 book of the same name is a concise, rigorous, yet accessible, account of the fundamentals of constrained optimization theory. Many problems arising in diverse fields such as machine learning, medicine, chemical engineering,...

Based on the results of over 10 years of research and development by the authors, this book presents a broad cross section of dynamic programming (DP) techniques applied to the optimization of dynamical systems. The intention of the research effort was...

This book is about making decisions driven by experience. In this context, a scenario is an observation that comes from the environment, and scenario optimization refers to optimizing decisions over a set of available scenarios. Scenario optimization can...

Many advances have taken place in the field of combinatorial algorithms since Methods of Mathematical Economics first appeared two decades ago. Despite these advances and the development of new computing methods, several basic theories and methods remain...

This book is concerned with fostering theoretical issues on stochastic programming and discussing how it can solve real life problems. The book presents applications which solve the optimisation of concrete problems in electricity markets, market...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536121636Author Ludmila A UvarovaFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 810g

Linear and Non-Linear System Theory focuses on the basics of linear and non-linear systems, optimal control and optimal estimation with an objective to understand the basics of state space approach linear and non-linear systems and its analysis thereof...

This is the first book devoted to the full scale of applications of stochastic programming, and to provide access to publicly available algorithmic systems. The 32 contributed papers are written by leading stochastic programming specialists and reflect...

This monograph provides an introduction to the state of the art of the probability theory that is most directly applicable to combinatorial optimization. The questions that receive the most attention are those that deal with discrete optimization...

A reprint of the original volume, which won the Lanchester Prize awarded by the Operations Research Society of America for the best work of 1968. Although out of print for nearly 15 years, it remains one of the most referenced volumes in the field of...

In real-world problems related to finance, business, and management, mathematicians and economists frequently encounter optimization problems. In this classic book, George Dantzig looks at a wealth of examples and develops linear programming methods for...

Robust optimization is still a relatively new approach to optimization problems affected by uncertainty, but it has already proved so useful in real applications that it is difficult to tackle such problems today without considering this powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432847Author Saul I. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis of scale invariance, a central unifying theme of the book.Criticality refers to the behaviour of...

Provides an introduction to the applications, theory, and algorithms of linear and nonlinear optimization. The emphasis is on practical aspects - discussing modern algorithms, as well as the influence of theory on the interpretation of solutions or on...

In the past decade, primal-dual algorithms have emerged as the most important and useful algorithms from the interior-point class. This book presents the major primal-dual algorithms for linear programming in straightforward terms. A thorough description...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432274Author Mordecai AvrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In 1781, Gaspard Monge defined the problem of ""optimal transportation"", or the transferring of mass with the least possible amount of work, with applications to engineering in mind. In 1942, Leonid Kantorovich applied the newborn machinery of linear...