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Practical Mathematical Optimization
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2005; US$ 69.99Presents basic optimization principles and gradient-based algorithms to a general audience. This work pays attention to the difficulties - such as noise, discontinuities, expense of function evaluations, and the existence of multiple minima - that often unnecessarily inhibit the use of gradient-based methods. more...
Essays and Surveys in Global Optimization
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2005; US$ 84.99Global optimization aims at solving the general problems of deterministic mathematical programming: to find the global optimum of a nonlinear, nonconvex, multivariate function of continuous and/or integer variables. This book examines its mathematical capability, power, and solutions to many fields in the applied sciences. more...
Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2005; US$ 84.99The techniques of graph theory have been used in solving many classical problems. This book explores the field's classical foundations and its developing theories, ideas and applications to new problems. It also examines the geometric properties of graph theory and its widening uses in combinatorial optimization theory and application. more...
Modelling and Identification with Rational Orthogonal Basis Functions
Springer 2005; US$ 139.99Models of dynamical systems are of great importance in almost all fields of science and engineering and specifically in control, signal processing and information science. A model is always only an approximation of a real phenomenon so that having an approximation theory which allows for the analysis of model quality is a substantial concern. The use... more...
Subspace Methods for System Identification
Springer 2006; US$ 159.99An in-depth introduction to subspace methods for system identification in discrete-time linear systems thoroughly augmented with advanced and novel results, this text is structured into three parts. Part I deals with the mathematical preliminaries: numerical linear algebra; system theory; stochastic processes; and Kalman filtering. Part II explains... more...
Global Optimization
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 119.99Addresses the following topics: descriptions of implementations of general-purpose or problem-specific global optimization algorithms; algorithms in global optimization, some with numerical results and a discussion of the implementation; and surveys discussing software packages. more...
Liapunov Functions and Stability in Control Theory
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 139.99This book presents a modern and self-contained treatment of the Liapunov method for stability analysis, in the framework of mathematical nonlinear control theory. A Particular focus is on the problem of the existence of Liapunov functions (converse Liapunov theorems) and their regularity, whose interest is especially motivated by applications to automatic... more...
Collective Dynamics of Nonlinear and Disordered Systems
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 139.99Phase transitions in disordered systems and related dynamical phenomena are a topic of intrinsically high interest in theoretical and experimental physics. This book presents a unified view, adopting concepts from each of the disjoint fields of disordered systems and nonlinear dynamics. Special attention is paid to the glass transition, from both experimental... more...
Multiscale Optimization Methods and Applications
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 109.99As optimization researchers tackle larger and larger problems, scale interactions play an increasingly important role. One general strategy for dealing with a large or difficult problem is to partition it into smaller ones, which are hopefully much easier to solve, and then work backwards towards the solution of original problem, using a solution from... more...









