Applied mathematics Books

The primary aim of this monograph is to provide a formal framework for the representation and management of uncertainty and vagueness in the field of artificial intelligence. It puts particular emphasis on a thorough analysis...

From earlier ecological studies it has become apparent that simple univariate or bivariate statistics are often inappropriate, and that multivariate statistical analyses must be applied. Despite several difficulties arising...

"Are there common phenomena and laws in the dynamic behavior of granular materials, traffic, and socio-economic systems?" The answers given at the international workshop "Traffic and Granular Flow '99" are presented in this...

Faced with the challenge of solving the hard optimization problems that abound in the real world, existing methods often encounter great difficulties. Important applications in business, engineering or economics cannot be tackled by the techniques that...

Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) can be defined as the next generation of Information Systems (IS) developed as a result of integration of AI and database (DB) technologies. IIS embody knowledge that allows them to exhibit...

Ernst Zermelo: A glance at his life and work.- Ernst Zermelo's curriculum vitae.- Zermelo 1901.- Zermelo 1904.- Zermelo 1908a.- Zermelo 1908b.- Zermelo 1909a.- Zermelo 1909b.- Zermelo 1913.- Zermelo 1914.- Landau 1917b.- Zermelo s1921.- Zermelo 1927.- D...

Preliminaries.- Sectorial Operators.- Linear Evolution Equations.- Semilinear Evolution Equations.- Quasilinear Evolution Equations.- Dynamical Systems.- Numerical Analysis.- Semiconductor Models.- Activator-Inhibitor Models.- Belousov-Zhabotinskii...

The term "soft computing" applies to variants of and combinations under the four broad categories of evolutionary computing, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and Bayesian statistics. Although each one has its separate strengths,...

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a...

The 7th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2009) was held on Hainan Island, China from December 2 - 4. SERA '09 featured excellent theoretical and practical...

Tremendous advances in all disciplines including engineering, science, health care, business, avionics, management, and so on, can also be attributed to the development of artificial intelligence paradigms. In fact, researchers...

The rapid increase in computing power and communication speed, coupled with computer storage facilities availability, has led to a new age of multimedia app- cations. Multimedia is practically everywhere and all around us we...

The College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) at UNC-Charlotte has three departments: Computer Science, Software and Information Systems, and Bioinformatics and Genomics. The Department of Computer Science offers study in a...

We describe in this book, new methods for evolutionary design of intelligent s- tems using soft computing and their applications in modeling, simulation and c- trol. Soft Computing (SC) consists of several intelligent computing...

New approaches are needed that could move us towards developing effective systems for problem solving and decision making, systems that can deal with complex and ill-structured situations, systems that can function in...

Multi-objective optimization deals with the simultaneous optimization of two or more objectives which are normally in con?ict with each other. Since mul- objective optimization problems are relatively common in real-world...

For over fifty years now, the famous problem of flow shop and job shop scheduling has been receiving the attention of researchers in operations research, engineering, and computer science. Over the past several years, there has...

Plenary Presentations.- A Domain Decomposition Approach for Calculating the Graph Corresponding to a Fibrous Geometry.- Adaptive Multilevel Interior-Point Methods in PDE Constrained Optimization.- Numerical Homogeneisation Technique with Domain...

Data Management is the process of planning, coordinating and controlling data resources. More often, applications need to store and search a large amount of data. Managing Data has been continuously challenged by demands from...

Little by little we are being provided with an arsenal of operative instruments of a non-numerical nature, in the shape of models and algorithms, capable of providing answers to the "aggressions" which our economics and...

The book at hand re?ects on the increasing convergence of Social Media and Semantic Web technologies. It was the editors' intention to collect - to-date and high quality contributions that illustrate various approaches to this...

Econometric Computation.- Econometric Software.- Econometric Diagnostic Tests.- The Basic Statistics.- The Failure of Assumptions.- Cointegration and Alternative Specifications.- Several Historical Considerations.- The Implications of the Findings.

In many practical situations, we are interested in statistics characterizing a population of objects: e.g. in the mean height of people from a certain area. Most algorithms for estimating such statistics assume that the sample...

1 Introduction.- 2 Microstructure Foundations.- 3 Empirical Properties of High-Frequency Data.- 4 Financial Point Processes.- 5 Univariate Multiplicative Error Models.- 6 Generalized Multiplicative Error Models.- 7 Vector Multiplicative Error Models.- 8...

Introduction.- Notes on Some Theories of Giffen Behaviour.- Exact and Useful Optimization Methods for Microeconomics.- On the Definitions of Giffen and Inferior Goods.- Giffen Behaviour and Strong Assymetric Gross Substituability.- A Child Garden of...

IntroductionClassical enzyme kineticsClassical dose-response curves and the Hill coefficientClassical association and dissociation kinetics and exponential fitsNumerical methodsPreparing the computerInstallation of Octave for different...

This volume contains a collection of papers from the research program "Protective Artificial Respiration (PAR)". In 2005 the German Research Association DFG launched the research program PAR which is a joint initiative of...

The book presents a representative selection of all publications published between 01/2009 and 06/2010 in various books, journals and conference proceedings by the researchers of the institute cluster: IMA - Institute of...

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the 19th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR), held October 3-6, 2010 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. The conference was started by Sandia National Laboratories in...

May the Forcing Functions be with You: The Stimulating World of AIED and ITS Research It is my pleasure to write the foreword for Advances in Intelligent Tutoring S- tems. This collection, with contributions from leading...

Production engineering and management involve a series of planning and control activities in a production system. A production system can be as small as a shop with only one machine or as big as a global operation including...

The European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) was held from June 29-July 3, 2010, in Uppsala, Sweden. This was the eighth conference in a series of biannual meetings starting in Paris...

Petri Nets were introduced and still successfully used to analyze and model discrete event systems especially in engineering and computer sciences such as in automatic control. Recently this discrete Petri Nets formalism was successfully extended to...

Compared with data from general application domains, modern biological data has many unique characteristics. Biological data are often characterized as having large volumes, complex structures, high dimensionality, evolving...

Intelligent systems and technologies are increasing finding their ways in our daily lives. This book presents a sample of recent research results from key researchers. The contributions include: Introduction to intelligent...

Intelligent agents have revolutionised the way we do business, we teach, we learn, design systems, and so on. Agent applications are increasingly being developed in - mains as diverse as meteorology, manufacturing, war gaming,...

Knowledge processing and decision making in agent-based systems constitute the key components of intelligent machines. The contributions included in the book are: Innovations in Knowledge Processing and Decision Making in...

In recent years, the issue of linkage in GEAs has garnered greater attention and recognition from researchers. Conventional approaches that rely much on ad hoc tweaking of parameters to control the search by balancing the level...