Kategoria BISAC: Mathematics >> Linear & Nonlinear Programming

Il libro narra la vicenda di Rut, quindicenne, da poco trasferitasi con la famiglia in Germania al seguito del padre che lavora per un'azienda produttrice di Software. Nella nuova scuola Rut sta attraversando un periodo di crisi quando il padre, un giorno, le regala un computer nuovo. E' l'inizio di un'avventura. Nel computer e infatti installato Vim: un programma che ascolta, capisce e risponde alle domande di Rut, la quale finisce per confidargli le proprie difficolta a scuola, soprattutto nei confronti della matematica. Raccontata da Vim, quella che sembrava una disciplina astratta e...

Optimization has become an essential tool in addressing the limitation of resources and need for better decision-making in the medical field. Both continuous and discrete mathematical techniques are playing an increasingly important role in understanding several fundamental problems in medicine.

This volume presents a wide range of medical applications that can utilize mathematical computing. Examples include using an algorithm for considering the seed reconstruction problem in brachytherapy and using optimization-classification models to assist in the early prediction, diagnosis...

Optimization Theory and Methods can be used as a textbook for an optimization course for graduates and senior undergraduates. It is the result of the author's teaching and research over the past decade. It describes optimization theory and several powerful methods. For most methods, the book discusses an idea's motivation, studies the derivation, establishes the global and local convergence, describes algorithmic steps, and discusses the numerical performance.

Optimization models based on a nonlinear systems description often possess multiple local optima. The objective of global optimization (GO) is to find the best possible solution of multiextremal problems. This volume illustrates the applicability of GO modeling techniques and solution strategies to real-world problems.

The contributed chapters cover a broad range of applications from agroecosystem management, assembly line design, bioinformatics, biophysics, black box systems optimization, cellular mobile network design, chemical process optimization, chemical product...

Customer-Oriented Optimization in Public Transportation develops models, results and algorithms for optimizing public transportation from a customer-oriented point of view. The methods used are based on graph-theoretic approaches and integer programming. The specific topics are all motivated by real-world examples which occurred in practical projects. An appendix summarizes some of the basics of optimization needed to interpret the material in the book.

In detail, the topics the book covers in its three parts are as follows:

1. Stop location. Does it make sense to open new...