This book celebrates the remarkable contributions of Panos M. Pardalos, offering a comprehensive collection of 19 rigorously peer-reviewed articles that span the breadth of his research interests. From deterministic and stochastic global optimization to combinatorial optimization, this volume provides insights into solving modern applied problems in planning theory, support vector machines, data mining, supply chain optimization, and more.Readers will encounter a diverse array of t...

This unique volume focuses on results devoted to active current research in mathematical analysis with emphasis to optimization and applications. Effort is made for the featured book chapters to have an interdisciplinary approach to the problems treated.Topics in this book include a wavelet fuzzy optimization model, an optimization model for supply chain networks, nonlinear optimization problems, circuit chains describing a random walk, etc, to name a few.The valuable refer...

This comprehensive volume presents essential mathematical results devoted to topics of mathematical analysis, differential equations and their various applications. It focuses on differential operators, Wardowski maps, low-oscillation functions, Galois and Pataki connections, Hardy-type inequalities, to name just a few.Effort has been made for this unique title to have an interdisciplinary flavor and features several applications such as in tomography, elastic scattering, fluid mec...

The comprehensive volume focuses on both research and survey papers presenting results in a broad spectrum of subjects in pure and applied mathematics, such as in approximation theory, optimization and their applications.Topics within this book include Sobolev spaces, Banach spaces, locally convex spaces, integral operators, Szasz-Mirakyan operators, to name a few.This useful reference text benefits professionals, academics, graduate students and advanced research scientist...

This book offers as exploration into the emerging field of Inverse Combinatorial Optimization Problems (ICOPs), a transformative area within operations research. As traditional optimization focuses on maximizing or minimizing objectives under constraints, ICOPs reverse this process, allowing for the inference of hidden parameters from observed outcomes. This monograph provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying ICOPs across various domains.Key concepts such as...

This volume features an extensive account of both research and expository papers in a wide area of engineering and mathematics and its various applications.Topics treated within this book include optimization of control points, game theory, equilibrium points, algorithms, Cartan matrices, integral inequalities, Volterra integro-differential equations, Caristi-Kirk theorems, Laplace type integral operators, etc.This useful reference text benefits graduate students, beginning...

For students in industrial and systems engineering (ISE) and operations research (OR) to understand optimization at an advanced level, they must first grasp the analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, and other concepts and modern developments in numerical methods. Satisfying this prerequisite, Numerical Methods and Optimization: An Intro

Recent developments in theory, algorithms, and applications in optimization and control are discussed in this proceedings, based on selected talks from the ‘Optimization Control and Applications in the Information Age’ conference, organized in honor of Panos Pardalos’s 60th birthday. This volume contains numerous applications to optimal decision making in energy production and fuel management, data mining, logistics, supply chain management, market network analysis, risk analysis, and comm...

This compendium focuses on self-contained presentations of various developments in mathematical analysis, cryptography and information science.The volume features both original research and survey papers contributed by experts from the international community. The book has a strong interdisciplinary flavor and features the most recent developments in the topics treated.This useful reference text benefits professionals, researchers, academics and graduate students.

This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities. Such models can be used from outlining the fundamental concepts of urban development to the description and optimization of physical networks, such as power, water or telecommunications. Networks help us understand city economics and various aspects of human interactions within cities with particular applications in quality of lif...

Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software engineering techniques for designing and implementing better agricultural software systems based on the object-oriented paradigm and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The focus is on the presentation of rigorous step-by-step approaches for modeling flexible agricultural and environmental systems, starting with a conceptual diagram representing elements of the system and their relation...

Celebrating the 90th birthday of the esteemed mathematician Terry Rockafellar, this volume brings together both research and survey papers that delve into the intricacies of convex analysis and its applications across various fields.Topical coverage includes the application of convex analysis in statistical contexts, Jensen-type inequalities for trigonometrically $\rho$-convex functions, and Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for h-convex functions. This book also examines exponent...