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Advances in Dynamics, Patterns, Cognition: Challenges in Complexity (Nonlinear Systems and Complexity #20)
by Arkady Pikovsky Igor S. Aranson Nikolai F. Rulkov Lev S. TsimringThis book focuses on recent progress in complexity research based on the fundamental nonlinear dynamical and statistical theory of oscillations, waves, chaos, and structures far from equilibrium. Celebrating seminal contributions to the field by Prof. M. I. Rabinovich of the University of California at San Diego, this volume brings together perspectives on both the fundamental aspects of complexity studies, as well as in applications in different fields ranging from granular patterns to understanding of the cognitive brain and mind dynamics. The slate of world-class authors review recent achievements that together present a broad and coherent coverage of modern research in complexity greater than the sum of its parts.
Advances in Econometrics, Operational Research, Data Science and Actuarial Studies: Techniques and Theories (Contributions to Economics)
by M. Kenan TerzioğluThis volume presents techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, computer science, and information science to analyze problems in business, economics, finance, insurance, and related fields. The authors present proposals for solutions to common problems in related fields. To this end, they are showing the use of mathematical, statistical, and actuarial modeling, and concepts from data science to construct and apply appropriate models with real-life data, and employ the design and implementation of computer algorithms to evaluate decision-making processes. This book is unique as it associates data science - data-scientists coming from different backgrounds - with some basic and advanced concepts and tools used in econometrics, operational research, and actuarial sciences. It, therefore, is a must-read for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in a better understanding of the techniques and theories of these fields.
Advances in Economics and Econometrics
by Daron Acemoglu Manuel Arellano Eddie DekelThis is the third of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and commentaries presented at invited symposium sessions of the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Shanghai in August 2010. The papers summarize and interpret key developments in economics and econometrics, and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics, covering both theory and application. Written by the leading specialists in their fields, these volumes provide a unique, accessible survey of progress on the discipline. The third volume primarily addresses econometrics, with specific focuses on the econometrics of industrial organization, macroeconometrics, econometric theory, empirical microeconomics, time series and panels, and the Mirrlees Review on tax reform in the twenty-first century.
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Eleventh World Congress (Econometric Society Monographs #58)
by Bo Honoré Ariel Pakes Monika Piazzesi Larry SamuelsonThis is the first of two volumes containing papers and commentaries presented at the Eleventh World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Montreal, Canada in August 2015. These papers provide state-of-the-art guides to the most important recent research in economics. The book includes surveys and interpretations of key developments in economics and econometrics, and discussion of future directions for a wide variety of topics, covering both theory and application. These volumes provide a unique, accessible survey of progress on the discipline, written by leading specialists in their fields. The first volume includes theoretical and applied papers addressing topics such as dynamic mechanism design, agency problems, and networks.
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Eleventh World Congress (Econometric Society Monographs #59)
by Bo Honoré Ariel Pakes Monika Piazzesi Larry SamuelsonThis is the first of two volumes containing papers and commentaries presented at the Eleventh World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Montreal, Canada in August 2015. These papers provide state-of-the-art guides to the most important recent research in economics. The book includes surveys and interpretations of key developments in economics and econometrics, and discussion of future directions for a wide variety of topics, covering both theory and application. These volumes provide a unique, accessible survey of progress on the discipline, written by leading specialists in their fields. The first volume includes theoretical and applied papers addressing topics such as dynamic mechanism design, agency problems, and networks.
Advances in Effective Flow Separation Control for Aircraft Drag Reduction: Modeling, Simulations and Experimentations (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences #52)
by Jacques Periaux Ning Qin Gabriel BugedaThis book presents the results of a European-Chinese collaborative research project, Manipulation of Reynolds Stress for Separation Control and Drag Reduction (MARS), including an analysis and discussion of the effects of a number of active flow control devices on the discrete dynamic components of the turbulent shear layers and Reynolds stress. From an application point of view, it provides a positive and necessary step to control individual structures that are larger in scale and lower in frequency compared to the richness of the temporal and spatial scales in turbulent separated flows.
Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Christopher F. Parmeter Robin C. SicklesThe volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis. It brings together a selection of the best papers from the 10th North American Productivity Workshop. By analyzing world-wide perspectives on challenges that local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed, readers can quickly assess the impact of productivity measurement, productivity growth, dynamics of productivity change, measures of labor productivity, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors, frontier analysis, measures of performance, industry instability and spillover effects.The contributions in this volume focus on the theory and application of economics, econometrics, statistics, management science and operational research related to problems in the areas of productivity and efficiency measurement. Popular techniques and methodologies including stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis are represented. Chapters also cover broader issues related to measuring, understanding, incentivizing and improving the productivity and performance of firms, public services, and industries.
Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science #287)
by Juan Aparicio C. A. Knox Lovell Jesus T. Pastor Joe ZhuThis book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a (technical) production frontier or as an (economic) cost, revenue or profit frontier, and alternative ways of measuring efficiency relative to an appropriate frontier. Simultaneously, the analytical techniques developed for efficiency analysis extend directly to productivity analysis, thereby providing alternative methods for estimating productivity levels, and productivity change through time or productivity variation across producers.This book includes chapters using data envelopment analysis (DEA) or stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) as quantitative techniques capable of measuring efficiency and productivity. Across the book’s 15 chapters, it broadly extends into popular application areas including agriculture, banking and finance, and municipal performance, and relatively new application areas including corporate social responsibility, the value of intangible assets, land consolidation, and the measurement of economic well-being. The chapters also cover topics such as permutation tests for production frontier shifts, new indices of total factor productivity, and also randomized controlled trials and production frontiers.
Advances in Electrical Systems and Innovative Renewable Energy Techniques: The Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical Systems and Automation (Volume 1) (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation)
by Mohamed Bendaoud Amine El Fathi Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh Siano PierluigiThis edited book on “Advances in Electrical Systems and Innovative Renewable Energy Techniques” is an outcome of the selected papers presented at the International Conference on Electrical Systems & Automation, (ICESA 2023) held from 29 to 30, May 2023 at the Faculty of Sciences and technologies, Al Hoceïma, Morocco.This edited book is divided into 2 volumes. This volume will be divided into 3 parts, each devoted to distinct yet interconnected aspects of the subject matter.The first part focuses on various advancements in renewable energy techniques. It explores topics ranging from biomass combustion characteristics and hydrogen production using photovoltaics to the assessment of wave energy potential and the performance evaluation of solar collectors. These research papers not only shed light on the current state-of-the-art technologies but also offer valuable insights into their implementation, efficiency, and potential impact on the energy landscape.The second part focuses on interdisciplinary approaches between electrical and renewable energy systems and includes research chapters on photovoltaic (PV) energy, wind energy, and microgrid systems.For PV systems, several topics and issues are addressed such as modeling of PV systems using single diode model and double diode model; analytical and numerical methods for extraction of PV parameters; extraction of maximum power from PV system using integral SMC strategy, sun-pointing orientation, SuDoKu, and ANN algorithms; and fault detection and classification based on metaheuristic technique, and feedforward neural network.For the wind system, its modeling is first discussed, and then the control of the wind system using direct power, PI, fuzzy logic, sliding mode, and time delay strategies is analyzed.In the third part, the chapters focus on efficient energy management, optimization of microgrids, and the use of advancedtechnologies to improve energy performance. Researchers present innovative solutions to address the challenges of energy efficiency, grid responsiveness, and the integration of new energy sources.
Advances in Energy System Optimization: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Energy System Optimization (Trends in Mathematics)
by Valentin Bertsch Wolf Fichtner Vincent Heuveline Thomas Leibfried Armin Ardone Michael SuriyahThe papers presented in this open access book address diverse challenges in decarbonizing energy systems, ranging from operational to investment planning problems, from market economics to technical and environmental considerations, from distribution grids to transmission grids, and from theoretical considerations to data provision concerns and applied case studies. While most papers have a clear methodological focus, they address policy-relevant questions at the same time. The target audience therefore includes academics and experts in industry as well as policy makers, who are interested in state-of-the-art quantitative modelling of policy relevant problems in energy systems. The 2nd International Symposium on Energy System Optimization (ISESO 2018) was held at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) under the symposium theme “Bridging the Gap Between Mathematical Modelling and Policy Support” on October 10th and 11th 2018. ISESO 2018 was organized by the KIT, the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), the Heidelberg University, the German Aerospace Center and the University of Stuttgart.
Advances in Engineering Design and Simulation: Select Proceedings of NIRC 2018 (Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering)
by Chenfeng Li U. Chandrasekhar Godfrey OnwuboluThis book consists of selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the NAFEMS India Regional Conference (NIRC 2018). It covers current topics related to advances in computer aided design and manufacturing. The book focuses on the latest developments in engineering modelling and simulation, and its application to various complex engineering systems. Finite element method/finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and additive manufacturing are some of the key topics covered in this book. The book aims to provide a better understanding of contemporary product design and analyses, and hence will be useful for researchers, academicians, and professionals.
Advances in Engineering Research and Application: Proceedings of the International Conference, ICERA 2018 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #63)
by Hamido Fujita Duy Cuong Nguyen Ngoc Pi Vu Tien Long Banh Hermann Horst PutaThe International Conference on Engineering Research and Applications (ICERA 2018), which took place at Thai Nguyen University of Technology, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam on December 1–2, 2018, provided an international forum to disseminate information on latest theories and practices in engineering research and applications. The conference focused on original research work in areas including Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Mechanics of Materials, Mechatronics and Micro Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technology. By disseminating the latest advances in the field, The Proceedings of ICERA 2018, Advances in Engineering Research and Application, helps academics and professionals alike to reshape their thinking on sustainable development.
Advances in Engineering Research and Application: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Research and Applications, ICERA 2023, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #944)
by Kai-Uwe Sattler Duy Cuong Nguyen Ngoc Pi Vu Banh Tien Long Horst Puta Do Trung HaiThis book covers the International Conference on Engineering Research and Applications (ICERA 2023), which was held on December 1–2, 2023 at Thai Nguyen University of Technology in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam, and provided an international forum to disseminate information on latest theories and practices in engineering research and applications. The conference focused on original research work in areas including mechanical engineering, materials and mechanics of materials, mechatronics and micro mechatronics, automotive engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, information and communication technology. By disseminating the latest advances in the field, the proceedings of ICERA 2023, Advances in Engineering Research and Application, assists academics and professionals alike to reshape their thinking on sustainable development.
Advances in Engineering Research and Application: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Research and Applications, ICERA 2023, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #943)
by Kai-Uwe Sattler Duy Cuong Nguyen Ngoc Pi Vu Banh Tien Long Horst Puta Do Trung HaiThis book covers the International Conference on Engineering Research and Applications (ICERA 2023), which was held on December 1–2, 2023 at Thai Nguyen University of Technology in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam, and provided an international forum to disseminate information on latest theories and practices in engineering research and applications. The conference focused on original research work in areas including mechanical engineering, materials and mechanics of materials, mechatronics and micro mechatronics, automotive engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, information and communication technology. By disseminating the latest advances in the field, the proceedings of ICERA 2023, Advances in Engineering Research and Application, assists academics and professionals alike to reshape their thinking on sustainable development.
Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control in Engineering and Sciences (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences #48)
by Edmondo Minisci Massimiliano Vasile Jacques Periaux Nicolas R. Gauger Kyriakos C. Giannakoglou Domenico QuagliarellaThis volume presents up-to-date material on the state of the art in evolutionary and deterministic methods for design, optimization and control with applications to industrial and societal problems from Europe, Asia, and America.EUROGEN 2015 was the 11th of a series of International Conferences devoted to bringing together specialists from universities, research institutions and industries developing or applying evolutionary and deterministic methods in design optimization, with emphasis on solving industrial and societal problems. The conference was organised around a number of parallel symposia, regular sessions, and keynote lectures focused on surrogate-based optimization in aerodynamic design, adjoint methods for steady & unsteady optimization, multi-disciplinary design optimization, holistic optimization in marine design, game strategies combined with evolutionary computation, optimization under uncertainty, topology optimization, optimal planning, shape optimization, and production scheduling.
Advances in Fire Safety Engineering: Selected Papers from the 5th Iberian-Latin-American Congress on Fire Safety, CILASCI 5, July 15-17, 2019, Porto, Portugal (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #1)
by Paulo A. G. Piloto João Paulo Rodrigues Valdir Pignatta SilvaThis book gathers selected, extended and revised papers presented at the 5th Iberian-Latin American Congress on Fire Safety, CILASCI 5, held on 15-17 July 2019, in Porto, Portugal. The respective chapters address experimental efforts and the computational and numerical modelling of materials (e.g. wood, concrete, and steel) and structures to assess their fire behavior and/or improve their fire resistance. In addition, they present simulation studies on fire events and findings from fire performance tests on walls. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners whose work involves fire safety-related topics.
Advances in Fluid Mechanics: Modelling and Simulations (Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics)
by Dia Zeidan Lucy T. Zhang Eric Goncalves Da Silva Jochen MerkerThis edited book provides invited and reviewed contributions in mathematical, physical and experimental modelling and simulations in all fluid mechanics branches. Contributions explore the emerging and state-of-the-art tools in the field authored by well-established researchers to derive improved performance of modelling and simulations. Serving the multidisciplinary fluid mechanics community, this book aims to publish new research work that enhances the prediction and understanding of fluid mechanics and balances from academic theory to practical applications through modelling, numerical studies, algorithms and simulation. The book offers researchers, students and practitioners significant insights on modelling and simulations in fluid mechanics. It offers readers a range of academic contributions on fluid mechanics by researchers that have become leaders in their field. The research work presented in this book will add values to the existing literature in terms of what needs to be done better to direct modelling and simulations towards a growing and rapidly developing field.
Advances in Fluid Mechanics and Solid Mechanics: Proceedings of the 63rd Congress of ISTAM 2018 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Damodar Maity Pradeep G. Siddheshwar Sunanda SahaThis book comprises select proceedings of the 63rd Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) held in Bangalore, in December 2018. Latest research in computational, experimental, and applied mechanics is presented in the book. The chapters are broadly classified into two sections - (i) fluid mechanics and (ii) solid mechanics. Each section covers computational and experimental studies on various contemporary topics such as aerospace dynamics and propulsion, atmospheric sciences, boundary layers, compressible flow, environmental fluid dynamics, control structures, fracture and crack, viscoelasticity, and mechanics of composites. The contents of this book will serve as a useful reference to students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the broad field of mechanics.
Advances in Functional Analysis and Fixed-Point Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
by Bipan Hazarika Santanu Acharjee Dragan S. DjordjevićThis book presents a curated selection of recent research in functional analysis and fixed-point theory, exploring their applications in interdisciplinary fields. The primary objective is to establish a connection between the latest developments in functional analysis and fixed-point theory and the broader interdisciplinary research landscape. By doing so, this book aims to address the needs of researchers and experts seeking to stay up-to-date with the cutting-edge research trends in functional analysis, fixed-point theory and related areas. It also aims to pave the way for applying functional analysis and fixed-point theory to solve interdisciplinary problems in various domains, including but not limited to fractional calculus, integral equations, queuing theory, convex analysis, harmonic analysis and wavelet analysis.
Advances in Geometry and Lie Algebras from Supergravity (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics))
by Pietro Giuseppe FréThis book aims to provide an overview of several topics in advanced differential geometry and Lie group theory, all of them stemming from mathematical problems in supersymmetric physical theories. It presents a mathematical illustration of the main development in geometry and symmetry theory that occurred under the fertilizing influence of supersymmetry/supergravity. <P><P> The contents are mainly of mathematical nature, but each topic is introduced by historical information and enriched with motivations from high energy physics, which help the reader in getting a deeper comprehension of the subject.
Advances in Global Optimization: In Honor Of Gilbert Strang (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #95)
by David Gao Ning Ruan Wenxun XingThis proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimization--a multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms. The volume contains selected papers from the third biannual World Congress on Global Optimization in Engineering & Science (WCGO), held in the Yellow Mountains, Anhui, China on July 8-12, 2013. The papers fall into eight topical sections: mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization; duality theory; topology optimization; variational inequalities and complementarity problems; numerical optimization; stochastic models and simulation and complex simulation and supply chain analysis.
Advances in Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modeling: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute on the 125th Birth Anniversary of PC Mahalanobis
by Ratan DasguptaThis book describes recent trends in growth curve modelling research in various subject areas, both theoretical and applied. It explains and explores the growth curve model as a valuable tool for gaining insights into several research topics of interest to academics and practitioners alike. The book’s primary goal is to disseminate applications of the growth curve model to real-world problems, and to address related theoretical issues. The book will be of interest to a broad readership: for applied statisticians, it illustrates the importance of growth curve modelling as applied to actual field data; for more theoretically inclined statisticians, it highlights a number of theoretical issues that warrant further investigation.
Advances in Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modeling: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute—Proceedings 2017
by Ratan DasguptaThis book explains and explores the growth curve model as a tool to gain insights into various research topics of interest to academics and practitioners alike. It includes studies on growth models for repeated measurement mixture experiments, and optimal designs for growth prediction in order to find an optimum design for the most efficient estimation of the parameters of the mixture models. It presents longitudinal studies conducted on the mathematical aptitude and intelligence quotient of tribal population in North Eastern states of India, and innovative statistical analysis showing that the status of tribes is improving over time. These results are supplemented by similar cross- sectional studies, and a retrospective longitudinal study of the social environment in North Eastern tribes indicating that the growth status of the social environment is improving. Child health is an important topic in developing countries, and as such the book features an overview of the growth and nutritional status of children aged 5 to 18 in India. Characterization of Extended Uniform Distribution and its applications for quality control in industrial production, and in yield data of tuber crops among others are discussed. Characterizations of distribution in terms of performance rate are also proved. There is also a contribution examining the past and present status of mangroves in Sunderban region of the Indian state of West Bengal from an ecological viewpoint using a growth curve model set-up. Lastly, it includes a chapter on a statistical study of platelet size decomposition and related growth model. Highlighting the importance of growth curve modelling as it applies to actual field data and encouraging more theoretically inclined statisticians to look into theoretical issues that need investigation, the book disseminates applications of the growth curve model to real-world problems and addresses related theoretical issues for the attention of theoreticians and practitioners.
Advances in Growth Curve Models: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #46)
by Ratan DasguptaAdvances in Growth Curve Models: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute is developed from the Indian Statistical Institute's A National Conference on Growth Curve Models. This conference took place between March 28-30, 2012 in Giridih, Jharkhand, India. Jharkhand is a tribal area. Advances in Growth Curve Models: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute shares the work of researchers in growth models used in multiple fields. A growth curve is an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over time. Case studies and theoretical findings, important applications in everything from health care to population projection, form the basis of this volume. Growth curves in longitudinal studies are widely used in many disciplines including: Biology, Population studies, Economics, Biological Sciences, SQC, Sociology, Nano-biotechnology, and Fluid mechanics. Some included reports are research topics that have just been developed, whereas others present advances in existing literature. Both included tools and techniques will assist students and researchers in their future work. Also included is a discussion of future applications of growth curve models.
Advances in H∞ Control Theory: Switched, Delayed, and Biological Systems (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences #481)
by Eli Gershon Uri ShakedAdvances in H∞ Control Theory is concerned with state-of-the-art developments in three areas:the extended treatment of mostly deterministic switched systems with dwell-time;the control of retarded stochastic state-multiplicative noisy systems; anda new approach to the control of biochemical systems, exemplified by the threonine synthesis and glycolytic pathways.Following an introduction and extensive literature survey, each of these major topics is the subject of an individual part of the book.The first two parts of the book contain several practical examples taken from various fields of control engineering including aircraft control, robot manipulation and process control. These examples are taken from the fields of deterministic switched systems and state-multiplicative noisy systems.The text is rounded out with short appendices covering mathematical fundamentals: σ-algebra and the input-output method for retarded systems.Advances in H∞ Control Theory is written for engineers engaged in control systems research and development, for applied mathematicians interested in systems and control and for graduate students specializing in stochastic control.