Various imperfections in existing market systems prevent the free market from serving as a truly efficient allocation mechanism, but optimization of economic activities provides an effective remedial
This book is associated with the International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO), held in Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2010; it was the first of a series of planned biannual conferences aimed
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This book provides an introduction to optimization theory and its applications. It is written for senior undergraduate students and first-year graduate students of telecommunication and related fields
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Computational optimization is an important paradigm with a wide range of applications. In virtually all branches of engineering and industry, we almost always try to optimize something - whether to mi
Optimization techniques have been widely adopted to implement various data mining algorithms. In addition to well-known Support Vector Machines (SVMs) (which are based on quadratic programming), diffe
Evolutionary Optimization The AaGP Toolkit offers a cohesive, thorough exploration of the scattered material on AaGP features that has been presented to and validated by the scientific community, giv
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2010, held in Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, in December 2010.The 49 rev
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2010, held in Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, in December 2010.The 49 rev
This fully revised new edition provides a self-contained presentation of the mathematical foundations, constructions and tools necessary for studying problems where the modeling, optimization or contr
"Optimization and Regularization for Computational Inverse Problems and Applications" focuses on advances in inversion theory and recent developments with practical applications, particularly emphasiz
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A comprehensive reference on the call procedures of 4G RAN and Core networks, LTE Signaling, Troubleshooting and Optimization describes the protocols and procedures of LTE. It explains essential topi
The aim of this volume is to show how Fuzzy Sets and Systems can help to provide robust and adaptive heuristic optimization algorithms in a variety of situations. The book presents the state of the ar
Fundamentals and important results of vector optimization in a general setting are presented in this book. The theory developed includes scalarization, existence theorems, a generalized Lagrange multi
Based on research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Optimization of Regional Industrial Structures and Appl
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Bioinspired computation methods such as evolutionary algorithms and ant colony optimization are being applied successfully to complex engineering problems and to problems from combinatorial optimizati
In operations research and computer science it is common practice to evaluate the performance of optimization algorithms on the basis of computational results, and the experimental approach should fol
Optimization is an extremely important area in science and technology which provides powerful and useful tools and techniques for the formulation and solution of a multitude of problems in which we wi
This book is intended as a textbook to be used in a first graduate level course, and covers the fundamental principals of optimization in finite dimensions. It develops the necessary background mater
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This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2010, and the 14th International Wor
These proceedings contain papers from a symposium organized to discuss recent technological developments in process control and optimization in the field of extraction and processing of metals and mat
Improve the energy efficiency of process industry practicesSustainability in the Process Industry explains process integration and optimization and discusses applications for improving the energy and
Combinatorial optimization is a multidisciplinary scientific area, lying in the interface of three major scientific domains: mathematics, theoretical computer science and management.The three volumes
Combinatorial optimization is a multidisciplinary scientific area, lying in the interface of three major scientific domains: mathematics, theoretical computer science and management.The three volumes
Combinatorial Optimization is a multidisciplinary field, lying at the interface of three major scientific domains: applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, and management studies. Its focus
This volume is drawn from the proceedings of the Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems. Selected contributions from expert authors focus on the reliability and optim
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 4, held in Venice, Italy, in January 2010.The 23 regular an
Originally developed for mechanical and aeronautical engineering, structural optimization is not so easily applied to civil and architectural engineering, as structures in these fields are not mass pr
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