Problemas resueltos de matemática discreta. 2ª edición ampliada


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Las (mal llamadas) clases de problemas constituyen una herramienta fundamental en cualquier disciplina científica. Tradicionalmente, estas clases cumplen el objetivo de complementar aspectos más o menos difíciles de la disciplina en cuestión. Sin embargo, deberían entenderse más como un entrenamiento que capacite al estudiante para resolver cualquier problema (en sentido amplio) que se le pueda plantear en su vida profesional. Con este espíritu se concibe esta colección de “Problemas resueltos” que Ediciones Paraninfo pone a disposición de profesores y estudiantes de una gran variedad de disciplinas académicas. Esta obra ofrece un conjunto de problemas, todos ellos resueltos de una forma ordenada, completa y pedagógica, sobre temas que actualmente se incluyen en los trabajos de Discreta. Puede servir de complemento al texto Matemática Discreta de F. García Merayo publicado por esta misma editorial. Los ejercicios se han distribuido en once capítulos, todos ellos con la misma estructura. Cada uno de estos capítulos comienza con un resumen teórico como apoyo para la resolución de los ejercicios que contiene, que pertenecen a tres categorías: problemas resueltos, propuestos y de recapitulación. Los propuestos también tienen su solución completa. Todos ellos están orientados a todas las especialidades de Ingeniería, así como a muchas otras disciplinas facultativas, si bien serán de especial interés para estudiantes de Ingeniería Informática.







Qualitative Choice Analysis


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This book addresses two significant research areas in an interdependent fashion. It is first of all a comprehensive but concise text that covers the recently developed and widely applicable methods of qualitative choice analysis, illustrating the general theory through simulation models of automobile demand and use. It is also a detailed study of automobile demand and use, presenting forecasts based on these powerful new techniques. The book develops the general principles that underlie qualitative choice models that are now being applied in numerous fields in addition to transportation, such as housing, labor, energy, communications, and criminology. The general form, derivation, and estimation of qualitative choice models are explained, and the major models - logit, probit, and GEV - are discussed in detail. And continuous/discrete models are introduced. In these, qualitative choice methods and standard regression techniques are combined to analyze situations that neither alone can accurately forecast. Summarizing previous research on auto demand, the book shows how qualitative choice methods can be used by applying them to specific auto-related decisions as the aggregate of individuals' choices. The simulation model that is constructed is a significant improvement over older models, and should prove more useful to agencies and organizations requiring accurate forecasting of auto demand and use for planning and policy development. The book concludes with an actual case study based on a model designed for the investigations of the California Energy Commission. Kenneth Train is Visiting Associate Professor in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Economic Research at Cambridge Systematics, Inc., also in Berkeley. Qualitative Choice Analysisis included in The MIT Press Transportation Studies Series, edited by Marvin L. Manheim.




The Marriage Book


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Full of practical advice, this bestselling book by Nicky and Sila Lee is easy to read and designed to prepare, build, and even mend marriages. The Marriage Book is essential reading for any married or engaged couple. This resource addresses questions like: How can we be happily married to one person for our entire life? How do we resolve conflict? How can we discover and rediscover sexual intimacy? The Marriage Course is a series of seven sessions, designed to help couples invest in their relationship and build a strong marriage. It serves as a bridge between the church and local community by recognizing the need to go beyond the social, as well as physical, walls of the church to help couples with their relationships. Marriage Course is easy to run; the talks are available on DVD (sold separately) and each guest and leader receives a manual. If you enjoy hosting people and have a passion for strengthening family life, you could run a course!




Optimal Regulation


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Optimal Regulation addresses the central issue of regulatory economics - how toregulate firms in a way that induces them to produce and price "optimally." It synthesizes the majorfindings of an extensive theoretical literature on what constitutes optimality in various situationsand which regulatory mechanisms can be used to achieve it. It is the first text to provide aunified, modern, and nontechnical treatment of the field.The book includes models for regulatingoptimal output, tariffs, and surplus subsidy schemes, and presents all of the material graphically,with clear explanations of often highly technical topics.Kenneth E. Train is Associate AdjunctProfessor in the Department of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. He is also Principal of the firm Cambridge Systematics.Topics include: Thecost structure of natural monopoly (economies of scale and scope). Characterization of firstandsecond-best optimality. Surplus subsidy schemes for attaining first-best optimality. Ramsey pricesand the Vogelsang-Finsinger mechanism for attaining them. Time-ofuse (TOU) prices and Riordan'smechanisms for attaining the optimal TOU prices' Multipart and self-selecting tariffs, and Sibley'smethod for using self-selecting tariffs to achieve optimality. The Averch-Johnson model of howrate-of-return regulation induces inefficiencies. Analysis of regulation based on the firm's returnon Output, costs, or sales. Price-cap regulation. Regulatory treatment of uncertainty and its impacton the firm's behavior. Methods of attaining optimality without direct regulation (contestability,auctioning the monopoly franchise.)




Ejercicios resueltos de matemática discreta


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Descripción del editor: "Este libro incluye una colección de 479 preguntas de test y ejercicios resueltos detalladamente que se organizan en seis capítulos: inducción y recursión, teoría de números, conjuntos y funciones, relaciones y órdenes, combinatoria, y grafos.Cada capítulo comienza con una serie de secciones breves que recapitulan los conceptos teóricos, métodos prácticos, procedimientos y algoritmos necesarios para abordar la resolución de ejercicios del tema correspondiente, continúa con una sección dedicada a la exposición de preguntas de test, en las que hay que elegir una única respuesta correcta de tres, con respuestas explicadas, y concluye con una sección más amplia en la que se presenta una colección de ejercicios resueltos de dicho tema que requieren la exposición de una solución razonada para uno o varios apartados.Tanto los enunciados como las soluciones de los ejercicios se han seleccionado y elaborado con un criterio didáctico. Por un lado, se ha buscado variedad en los tipos de ejercicios, incluyendo tanto aquellos que requieren la aplicación más o menos mecánica de métodos conocidos, como aquellos otros que exigen un mayor esfuerzo de razonamiento. No se ha evitado un cierto grado de repetición de ejercicios del mismo tipo, entendiendo que ello puede contribuir tanto a la práctica de los alumnos como al uso selectivo del material por parte de los profesores que utilicen el libro como texto. En lo referente a las soluciones, no se ha pretendido en absoluto que sean las más breves o ingeniosas posibles, sino que se ha aspirado más bien a la claridad, de manera que el texto pueda ser útil para el trabajo personal de alumnos con una formación matemática previa más o menos limitada. Esto no quiere decir que se haya renunciado a incluir ejercicios de un cierto interés y dificultad, pero sí que se ha hecho un esfuerzo por presentar sus soluciones de manera comprensible.A menudo, los ejercicios corresponden a problemas propuestos en hojas de ejercicios y exámenes de matemática discreta de las titulaciones de la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)." ( Bellisco).




Basques in the Philippines


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The Basques played a remarkably influential role in the creation and maintenance of Spain’s colonial establishment in the Philippines. Their skills as shipbuilders and businessmen, their evangelical zeal, and their ethnic cohesion and work-oriented culture made them successful as explorers, colonial administrators, missionaries, merchants, and settlers. They continued to play prominent roles in the governance and economy of the archipelago until the end of Spanish sovereignty, and their descendants still contribute in significant ways to the culture and economy of the contemporary Philippines. This book offers important new information about a little-known aspect of Philippine history and the influence of Basque immigration in the Spanish Empire, and it fills an important void in the literature of the Basque diaspora.







Production and Operations Analysis


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Production and Operations Analysis, 6/e by Steven Nahmias provides a survey of the analytical methods used to support the functions of production and operations management. This latest edition maintains the focus on continual process improvement while enhancing the technical content of the book. Both analytical methods centered on factory and service processes, as well as process issues across the supply chain, are included. As always, the text presents the most cutting-edge quantitative models used in operations in a clear, accessible manner. While the familiar structure and organization of the text remains the same as previous editions, the current edition includes several new topics aimed at enhancing the technical content of the book.