Systems, Control, Modeling and Optimization


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This constitutes the Proceedings of the 22nd IFIP TC7 Conference held in July 2005, in Torino, Italy, and dedicated to Camillo Possio, on the 60th anniversary of his death during the last air raid over Torino. The papers in this volume concern primarily stochastic and distributed systems, their control/optimization, and inverse problems. These proceedings also explore applications of optimization techniques and computational methods in fields such as medicine, biology and economics.




Convergence Analysis of Proximal-like Methods for Variational Inequalities and Fixed Point Problems


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Several regularization methods for variational inequalities and fixed point problems are studied. Known convergence results especially require some kind of monotonicity of the problem data as well as, especially for Bregman-function-based algorithms, some additional assumption known as the cutting plane property. Unfortunately, these assumptions may be considered as rather restrictive e.g. in the framework of Nash equilibrium problems. This motivates the development of convergence results under weaker hypotheses which constitute the major subject of the present book. Studied methods include the Bregman-function-based Proximal Point Algorithm (BPPA), Cohen's Auxiliary Problem Principle and an extragradient algorithm.Moreover, this work also contains the first numerical comparison of stopping criteria in the framework of the BPPA. Although such conditions are the subject of theoretical investigations frequently, their numerical effectiveness and a deducible preference were still unknown. This gives rise to the necessity of the presented numerical experiments.




Combinatorial Optimization


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From the reviews: "About 30 years ago, when I was a student, the first book on combinatorial optimization came out referred to as "the Lawler" simply. I think that now, with this volume Springer has landed a coup: "The Schrijver". The box is offered for less than 90.- EURO, which to my opinion is one of the best deals after the introduction of this currency." OR-Spectrum




Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics


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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2007, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2007. The 63 revised full papers of the main conference presented together with 85 revised workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 250 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on parallel/distributed architectures and mobile computing, numerical algorithms and parallel numerics, parallel and distributed non-numerical algorithms, environments and tools for as well as applications of parallel/distributed/grid computing, evolutionary computing, meta-heuristics and neural networks. The volume proceeds with the outcome of 11 workshops and minisymposia dealing with novel data formats and algorithms for dense linear algebra computations, combinatorial tools for parallel sparse matrix computations, grid applications and middleware, large scale computations on grids, models, algorithms and methodologies for grid-enabled computing environments, scheduling for parallel computing, language-based parallel programming models, performance evaluation of parallel applications on large-scale systems, parallel computational biology, high performance computing for engineering applications, and the minisymposium on interval analysis.







A note on UP-hyperalgebras


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We introduce the concept of UP-hyperalgebras which is a generalization of UP-algebras, and investigate some related properties.




Advances In Algebra And Combinatorics - Proceedings Of The Second International Congress In Algebra And Combinatorics


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This volume is a compilation of lectures on algebras and combinatorics presented at the Second International Congress in Algebra and Combinatorics. It reports on not only new results, but also on open problems in the field. The proceedings volume is useful for graduate students and researchers in algebras and combinatorics. Contributors include eminent figures such as V Artamanov, L Bokut, J Fountain, P Hilton, M Jambu, P Kolesnikov, Li Wei and K Ueno.




Contemporary Trends in Discrete Mathematics


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Discrete mathematics stands among the leading disciplines of mathematics and theoretical computer science. This is due primarily to its increasing role in university curriculae and its growing importance in applications ranging from optimization to molecular biology. An inaugural conference was held cooperatively by DIMATIA and DIMACS to focus on the versatility, width, and depth of current progress in the subject area. This volume offers a well-balanced blend of research and survey papers reflecting the exciting, attractive topics in contemporary discrete mathematics. Discussed in the book are topics such as graph theory, partially ordered sets, geometrical Ramsey theory, computational complexity issues and applications.




Combinatorial & Computational Mathematics


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This book describes and summarizes past work in important areas of combinatorics and computation, as well as gives directions for researchers working in these areas in the 21st century. It contains primarily survey papers and presents original research by Peter Fishburn, Jim Ho Kwak, Jaeun Lee, K H Kim, F W Roush and Susan Williams. The papers deal with some of the most exciting and promising developments in the areas of coding theory in relation to number theory, lattice theory and its applications, graph theory and its applications, topological techniques in combinatorics, symbolic dynamics and mathematical social science.