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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.
Advances in Haptics and Virtual Reality: Proceedings of 2023 International Conference on Haptics and Virtual Reality (Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems #37)
by Jianbo Su Xiuquan QiaoThis book collects selected papers from the 2023 International Conference on Haptics and Virtual Reality (ICHVR 2023), held during December 15–17, 2023. ICHVR 2023 is organized by Southeast University (SEU), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and co-organized by the International Association of Electrical, Electronic and Energy Engineering (IAEEEE). This book gathers together latest findings and insightful ideas from innovative academics and experts in the field of Haptics, Virtual Reality, Human–Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Computer Arts, Mobile Intelligent Device and Artificial Intelligent Algorithm. This book serves as a valuable resource for staying up-to-date with the state of the art in Haptics and Virtual Reality and serves as a catalyst for further advancements and innovation in these fields, which will provide unique perspectives for readers consisting of professionals, scientists, practitioners, researchers, and graduate students.
Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (Trends in Mathematics)
by Vladimir Georgiev Tohru Ozawa Michael Ruzhansky Jens WirthThis book originates from the session "Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations" held at the 12th ISAAC Congress in Aveiro, and provides a quick overview over recent advances in partial differential equations with a particular focus on the interplay between tools from harmonic analysis, functional inequalities and variational characterisations of solutions to particular non-linear PDEs. It can serve as a useful source of information to mathematicians, scientists and engineers. The volume contains contributions of authors from a variety of countries on a wide range of active research areas covering different aspects of partial differential equations interacting with harmonic analysis and provides a state-of-the-art overview over ongoing research in the field. It shows original research in full detail allowing researchers as well as students to grasp new aspects and broaden their understanding of the area.
Advances in Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics: Select Proceedings of AHTFD 2022 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Mohammad Altamush Siddiqui Nadeem Hasan Andallib TariqThis book comprises select proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics (AHTFD 22). It covers latest research trends and development in diverse areas like, aerodynamics, complex fluid phenomenon, turbulence, flow control, thermal management, green buildings, micro-scale transport phenomena in biological systems, renewable energy, power generation, combustion and related applications in heat transfer and fluid dynamics, among others. The book is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals working in the various areas of mechanical engineering.
Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling
by Pavel V. Shevchenko Gareth W. PetersA cutting-edge guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to heavy tailed risk modeling Focusing on the quantitative aspects of heavy tailed loss processes in operational risk and relevant insurance analytics, Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk presents comprehensive coverage of the latest research on the theories and applications in risk measurement and modeling techniques. Featuring a unique balance of mathematical and statistical perspectives, the handbook begins by introducing the motivation for heavy tailed risk processes in high consequence low frequency loss modeling. With a companion, Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational Risk, the book provides a complete framework for all aspects of operational risk management and includes: Clear coverage on advanced topics such as splice loss models, extreme value theory, heavy tailed closed form loss distributional approach models, flexible heavy tailed risk models, risk measures, and higher order asymptotic approximations of risk measures for capital estimation An exploration of the characterization and estimation of risk and insurance modelling, which includes sub-exponential models, alpha-stable models, and tempered alpha stable models An extended discussion of the core concepts of risk measurement and capital estimation as well as the details on numerical approaches to evaluation of heavy tailed loss process model capital estimates Numerous detailed examples of real-world methods and practices of operational risk modeling used by both financial and non-financial institutions Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk is an excellent reference for risk management practitioners, quantitative analysts, financial engineers, and risk managers. The book is also a useful handbook for graduate-level courses on heavy tailed processes, advanced risk management, and actuarial science.
Advances In The History Of Mathematics Education (International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching)
by Alexander KarpThis book is a collection of scholarly studies in the history of mathematics education, very abbreviated versions of which were presented at the ICMI Congress in 2021. The book discusses issues in education in Brazil and Belgium, in Poland and Spain, in Russia and the United States. Probably the main factor that unifies the chapters of the book is their attention to key moments in the formation of the field of mathematics education. Topics discussed in the book include the formation and development of mathematics education for women; the role of the research mathematician in the formation of standards for writing textbooks; the formation of curricula and the most active figures in this formation during the New Math period; the formation of certain distinctive features of curricula in Poland; the formation of the views of David Eugene Smith and the influence of European mathematics education on him; the formation of the American mathematics community; and the creation of such forms of student assessment as entrance exams to higher educational institutions. The book is of interest not only to historians of mathematics education, but also to wide segments of specialists in other areas of mathematics education.
Advances in Hopf Algebras (Lecture Notes In Pure And Applied Mathematics Ser.)
by Susan Montgomery Jeffrey Bergen"This remarkable reference covers topics such as quantum groups, Hopf Galois theory, actions and coactions of Hopf algebras, smash and crossed products, and the structure of cosemisimple Hopf algebras. "
Advances in Human Activity Detection and Recognition (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science)
by Santosh Kumar Tripathy Roshan Singh Rajeev Srivastava Akash Kumar Bhoi Santosh Kumar SatapathyThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Human Activity Detection or Recognition (HADR) systems. Detection or recognition of human activities is a prominent research area in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence because of its many applications in daily life, including monitoring in public transport areas, health monitoring, anomaly detection in traffic, and smart homes. This book divides different activities according to their criticality, then discusses the various motivations and challenges that are involved in HADR systems. The authors then propose a framework for activity detection or recognition. The book also covers ten key applications of HADR systems and the recent developments for each of them. The authors also propose areas for future research.
Advances in Hybridization of Intelligent Methods: Models, Systems and Applications (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #85)
by Vasile Palade Ioannis HatzilygeroudisThis book presents recent research on the hybridization of intelligent methods, which refers to combining methods to solve complex problems. It discusses hybrid approaches covering different areas of intelligent methods and technologies, such as neural networks, swarm intelligence, machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, agent-based approaches, knowledge-based system and image processing. The book includes extended and revised versions of invited papers presented at the 6th International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications (CIMA 2016), held in The Hague, Holland, in August 2016. The book is intended for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry interested in using hybrid methods for solving complex problems.
Advances in Hydroinformatics—SimHydro 2023 Volume 1: New Modelling Paradigms for Water Issues (Springer Water)
by Philippe Gourbesville Guy CaignaertThis book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SimHydro 2023 conference, held in EDF Lab Chatou, France, with the support of Société Hydrotechnique de France (SHF), the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM), the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). SimHydro conferences, since 2010, have created a regular forum where major actors of the hydroinformatics domain and stakeholders meet, share, and debate about needs, innovations, and implementations of models and their inputs for decision making. For this new edition, the general theme of the conference is focused on “New modelling paradigms for water issues”. The papers address some of the key challenges faced by the water modelling community regarding processes to simulate such as water services, extreme events (floods, droughts, etc.), and hydrological cycle at catchment scale and to assess the added value of emerging concepts and methods such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twins that are gaining interests. It addresses the interests of practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, and engineers active in this field. This book represents Volume 1 of a two-volume book series.
Advances in Hydroinformatics—SimHydro 2023 Volume 2: New Modelling Paradigms for Water Issues (Springer Water)
by Philippe Gourbesville Guy CaignaertThis book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SimHydro 2023 conference, held in EDF Lab Chatou, France, with the support of Société Hydrotechnique de France (SHF), the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM), the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). SimHydro conferences, since 2010, have created a regular forum where major actors of the hydroinformatics domain and stakeholders meet, share, and debate about needs, innovations, and implementations of models and their inputs for decision making. For this new edition, the general theme of the conference is focused on “New modelling paradigms for water issues”. The papers address some of the key challenges faced by the water modelling community regarding processes to simulate such as water services, extreme events (floods, droughts, etc.), and hydrological cycle at catchment scale and to assess the added value of emerging concepts and methods such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twins that are gaining interests. It addresses the interests of practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, and engineers active in this field. This book represents Volume 2 of a two-volume book series.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14609)
by Nazli Goharian Nicola Tonellotto Yulan He Aldo Lipani Graham McDonald Craig Macdonald Iadh OunisThe six-volume set LNCS 14608, 14609, 14609, 14610, 14611, 14612 and 14613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, during March 24–28, 2024.The 57 full papers, 18 finding papers, 36 short papers, 26 IR4Good papers, 18 demonstration papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 8 doctoral consortium papers, and 15 invited CLEF papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 578 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14608)
by Nazli Goharian Nicola Tonellotto Yulan He Aldo Lipani Graham McDonald Craig Macdonald Iadh OunisThe six-volume set LNCS 14608, 14609, 14609, 14610, 14611, 14612 and 14613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, during March 24–28, 2024.The 57 full papers, 18 finding papers, 36 short papers, 26 IR4Good papers, 18 demonstration papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 8 doctoral consortium papers, and 15 invited CLEF papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 578 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part VI (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14613)
by Nazli Goharian Nicola Tonellotto Yulan He Aldo Lipani Graham McDonald Craig Macdonald Iadh OunisThe six-volume set LNCS 14608, 14609, 14609, 14610, 14611, 14612 and 14613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, during March 24–28, 2024.The 57 full papers, 18 finding papers, 36 short papers, 26 IR4Good papers, 18 demonstration papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 8 doctoral consortium papers, and 15 invited CLEF papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 578 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14612)
by Nazli Goharian Nicola Tonellotto Yulan He Aldo Lipani Graham McDonald Craig Macdonald Iadh OunisThe six-volume set LNCS 14608, 14609, 14609, 14610, 14611, 14612 and 14613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, during March 24–28, 2024.The 57 full papers, 18 finding papers, 36 short papers, 26 IR4Good papers, 18 demonstration papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 8 doctoral consortium papers, and 15 invited CLEF papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 578 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14610)
by Nazli Goharian Nicola Tonellotto Yulan He Aldo Lipani Graham McDonald Craig Macdonald Iadh OunisThe six-volume set LNCS 14608, 14609, 14609, 14610, 14611, 14612 and 14613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, during March 24–28, 2024.The 57 full papers, 18 finding papers, 36 short papers, 26 IR4Good papers, 18 demonstration papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 8 doctoral consortium papers, and 15 invited CLEF papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 578 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14611)
by Nazli Goharian Nicola Tonellotto Yulan He Aldo Lipani Graham McDonald Craig Macdonald Iadh OunisThe six-volume set LNCS 14608, 14609, 14609, 14610, 14611, 14612 and 14613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, during March 24–28, 2024.The 57 full papers, 18 finding papers, 36 short papers, 26 IR4Good papers, 18 demonstration papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 8 doctoral consortium papers, and 15 invited CLEF papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 578 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 – April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12656)
by Djoerd Hiemstra Marie-Francine Moens Josiane Mothe Raffaele Perego Martin Potthast Fabrizio SebastianiThis two-volume set LNCS 12656 and 12657 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, held virtually in March/April 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 50 full papers presented together with 11 reproducibility papers, 39 short papers, 15 demonstration papers, 12 CLEF lab descriptions papers, 5 doctoral consortium papers, 5 workshop abstracts, and 8 tutorials abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 436 submissions. The accepted contributions cover the state of the art in IR: deep learning-based information retrieval techniques, use of entities and knowledge graphs, recommender systems, retrieval methods, information extraction, question answering, topic and prediction models, multimedia retrieval, and much more.
Advances in Intelligent Computing and Communication: Proceedings of ICAC 2021 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #430)
by Mihir Narayan Mohanty Swagatam DasThe book presents high-quality research papers presented at 4th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Advances in Communication (ICAC 2021) organized by Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, in November 2021. This book brings out the new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied signal and image processing, soft computing, networking, and antenna research. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive and systematic reference on the range of alternative conversion processes and technologies.