A cooperative system is defined to be multiple dynamic entities that share information or tasks to accomplish a common, though perhaps not singular, objective. Examples of cooperative control systems might include: robots operating within a manufacturing cell, unmanned aircraft in search and rescue operations or military surveillance and attack missions, arrays of micro satellites that form a distributed large aperture radar, employees operating within an organization, and software agents. The term entity is most often associated with vehicles capable of physical motion such as robots,...
A cooperative system is defined to be multiple dynamic entities that share information or tasks to accomplish a common, though perhaps not singular, o...
A cooperative system is a collection of dynamical objects, which communicate and cooperate in order to achieve a common or shared objective. The cooperation of entities is achieved through communication; either explicitly by message passing, or implicitly via observation of another entities' state. As in natural systems, cooperation may assume a hierarchical form and the control processes may be distributed or decentralized. Due to the dynamic nature of individuals and the interaction between them, the problems associated with cooperative systems typically involve many uncertainties....
A cooperative system is a collection of dynamical objects, which communicate and cooperate in order to achieve a common or shared objective. The co...
Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization has un questionably been established as one of the most important areas of research in the military sciences. Even so, cooperative control and optimization tran scends the military in its scope -having become quite relevant to a broad class of systems with many exciting, commercial, applications. One reason for all the excitement is that research has been so incredibly diverse -spanning many scientific and engineering disciplines. This latest volume in the Cooperative Systems book series clearly illustrates this trend towards...
Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization has un questionably been established as one of the most important areas of research ...
The rapid changes that have taken place globally on the economic, social and business fronts characterized the 20th century. The magnitude of these changes has formed an extremely complex and unpredictable decision-making framework, which is difficult to model through traditional approaches. The main purpose of his book is to present the most recent advances in the development of innovative technique for managing the uncertainty that prevails in the global economic and management environments. These techniques originate mainly from fuzzy sets theory. However, the book also explores the...
The rapid changes that have taken place globally on the economic, social and business fronts characterized the 20th century. The magnitude of these ch...
Panos M. Pardalos Ider Tseveendorj Rentsen Enkhbat
This volume gives the latest advances in optimization and optimal control which are the main part of applied mathematics. It covers various topics of optimization, optimal control and operations research.
This volume gives the latest advances in optimization and optimal control which are the main part of applied mathematics. It covers various topics of ...
- 25 chapters of creative approaches to modeling, analysis, and synthesis of cooperative systems - Research results from top researchers in the field of cooperative systems - Exciting insights to cooperative systems which have increasingly played a larger and more important role in many aspects of military sciences, biology, communications, robotics, and decision making
- 25 chapters of creative approaches to modeling, analysis, and synthesis of cooperative systems - Research results from top researchers in the fie...
Sergiy Butenko Jaime Gil-Lafuente Panos M. Pardalos
Ever since the first Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, sports have become an integral part of human civilization. The last decade has been commemorated by the centennial celebration of the modern Olympic movement. With great anticipation, the Olympics return to Athens, Greece, and we are once again reminded that we live in one of the most exciting periods in the history of sports. Reflecting back on my years of service as the International Olympic Com- mittee president, I cannot overlook the remarkable changes that have taken place in the world of sports during these two decades. The...
Ever since the first Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, sports have become an integral part of human civilization. The last decade has been commemorated...
Significant research activity has occurred in the area of global optimization in recent years. Many new theoretical, algorithmic, and computational contributions have resulted. Despite the major importance of test problems for researchers, there has been a lack of representative nonconvex test problems for constrained global optimization algorithms. This book is motivated by the scarcity of global optimization test problems and represents the first systematic collection of test problems for evaluating and testing constrained global optimization algorithms. This collection includes problems...
Significant research activity has occurred in the area of global optimization in recent years. Many new theoretical, algorithmic, and computational co...
Constantin Zopounidis Michael Doumpos Panos M. Pardalos
Over the past decade the financial and business environments have undergone significant changes. During the same period several advances have been made within the field of financial engineering, involving both the methodological tools as well as the application areas.
This comprehensive edited volume discusses the most recent advances within the field of financial engineering, focusing not only on the description of the existing areas in financial engineering research, but also on the new methodologies that have been developed for modeling and addressing financial engineering...
Over the past decade the financial and business environments have undergone significant changes. During the same period several advances have been ...
The present book is based on results of scienti?c investigations and on the materials of special courses, o?ered for graduate and undergraduate students. The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader with the developments in bilinear systems theory and its applications. Particular attention is paid to control of open physical processes functioning in a nonequilibrium mode. The text consists of eight chapters. Chapter 1 is concerned with the problems of systems analysis of bilinear processes. Chapter 2 solves the problem of optimal control of bilinear systems on the basis of di?er- tial...
The present book is based on results of scienti?c investigations and on the materials of special courses, o?ered for graduate and undergraduate studen...
