Systems Engineering in Context Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research

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Handbook of learning and approximate dynamic programming

Table of Contents: “…Near-Optimal Control Via Reinforcement Learning and Hybridization / Augustine O Esogbue, Warren E Hearnes -- Multiobjective Control Problems by Reinforcement Learning / Dong-Oh Kang, Zeungnam Bien -- Adaptive Critic Based Neural Network for Control-Constrained Agile Missile / S N Balakrishnan, Dongchen Han -- Applications of Approximate Dynamic Programming in Power Systems Control / Ganesh K Venayagamoorthy, Donald C Wunsch, Ronald G Harley -- Robust Reinforcement Learning for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Control of Buildings / Charles W Anderson, Douglas Hittle, Matt Kretchmar, Peter Young -- Helicopter Flight Control Using Direct Neural Dynamic Programming / Russell Enns, Jennie Si -- Toward Dynamic Stochastic Optimal Power Flow / James A Momoh -- Control, Optimization, Security, and Self-healing of Benchmark Power Systems / James A Momoh, Edwin Zivi -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Optimization and Optimal Control Theory and Applications by Chinchuluun, Altannar

Table of Contents: “…Xavier -- Hadamard's Matrices, Grothendieck's Constant and Root Two, Dominique Fortin -- Canonical Dual Solutions for Fixed Cost Quadratic Programs, David Yang Gao, Ning Ruan, and Hanif D. Sherali -- Stochastic Optimal Control with Applications in Financial Engineering, Hans P. …”
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Handbook of recent advances in commodity and financial modeling : quantitative methods in banking, finance, insurance, energy and commodity markets

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Modern Development Paths of Agricultural Production Trends and Innovations

Table of Contents: “…Improving the Efficiency of Fruit Tree Sprayers -- Refractory Materials Manufacturing Based on Sewage Sludge -- Increasing the Efficiency of the Technological Process of Processing Castor-oil Seeds Into Castor Oil -- Mechanism of technical service investment in agriculture -- Location of social capital in the labor protection of the enterprise -- Defining Stability of Technological Process of Growing Fruit Crops Seedlings -- Design of Functional Surfaces in CAD-system of SolidWorks via Specialized Software -- Seed Material Size Influence on its Uniform Sowing Unit Delivery -- Agrobiological as well as Mechanical and Technological Framework of Development of the Harvesting Technology with the Method of Grain Crops Combing in Standing Position -- Simulation of Cereal Crops Harvesting Using the Method of Grain Crops Combing in Standing Position in Conditions of Farming Enterprises -- Software development for the security of TCP-connections -- The Formation of Orthogonal Balanced Experiment Designs Based on Special Block Matrix Operations on the Example of the Mathematical Modeling of the Pneumatic Gravity Seed Separator -- The Parameters Substantiation of Seed Drill Capacity for Stone Crop Seeds -- Methodological Aspects of Determining Parameters of a Scalper-Type Air-Sieved Separator Airflow -- Theoretical Aspects of Plant Material Sealing in a Wedge-Shaped Canal -- Study of Hydromechanical Parameters Part of the Water Solutions Household in Running Flows -- The Efficiency of Tractor Application with Articulated Frame for Cultivating Arable Crops -- Operating Conditions Influence on the Change of Functional Characteristics for Mechatronic Systems with Orbital Hydraulic Motors -- Increase in durability of motor crankshaft pin surface by vibrorolling -- The Coefficient Determination of a Damper Washer Hydraulic Resistance for Reducing а Technical Module Oscillation Amplitude -- Generalization of Factors of Milk Homogenization -- Setting Ground Dimension-Type Series-Tillage Fertilizing, Sowing Complexes for Growing Grain Crops -- Consulting Services in Agriculture -- Development of Technology for the Hemp Stalks Preparation -- Theoretical Studies of Stable Exploitation Conditions of a Three-wheeled Tractor on the Fields Slopes -- Research of the Cereal Materials Micronizer for Fodder Components Preparation in Animal Husbandry -- Grains Dynamic Strength Determination and the Optimal Combination of Components of a Diamondiferous Layer of Grinding Wheels -- Application of Phenoclimatographic Models in Stone Fruits Protecting From Spring Frosts -- Vacuum cooling technology for pre-cooling of cherry fruits -- Sowing Units for Drilling Vegetable Crops -- Examining the creative potential of engineering students -- Development of communicative competence as a precondition of competitive software engineer formation -- Analysis of Main Process Characteristics of Infrared Drying in the Moving Layer of Grain Produce -- Geometrical Parameters for Distribution Systems of Hydraulic Machines -- Mathematical Model Changing the Value of the Process of Leakage Current in 0.38 kV Networks -- Experimental Study of Positive Influence on Growth of Seeds of Electric Field a High Voltage -- The usage of electricity charged aerosol for greenhouse cooling: problems and prospects -- Development of a Motor Speed Observer for an Electrified Soil-Cultivating Motoblock -- Experimental Investigations of Functional Properties of Biofuel Processed in the Electrotechnological Complex -- Hybrid Power System Stochastic Optimization -- Energy Saving in the Technological Process of the Grain Grinding -- Determination of the Duration of Spherical Shape Berries Freezing Under the Conditions Stationary Heat Flow -- Energy-Saving Control of Asynchronous Electric Motors for Driving Working Machines -- The Role of Social Capital in Development of Agricultural Entrepreneurship -- Methodological Aspects of Forming Mathematic Models of Management of Social-Economic Systems Development -- Modeling innovative economic activity of peasant farm -- Prospects of Ukraine on the World Market of Dairy Desserts -- Cognitive modeling in the regional strategic management -- Managing Competitiveness of the Enterprise: Theoretical-methodological Aspect -- International Ranking and Clustering Systems in Complex Evaluation of Demographic and Migration Processes -- Ukraine in the context of the world organic production of agricultural products -- Development and incipience decentralization of authority in Ukraine and formation of its impact on local budgets financial capacity -- Analyses of Personnel Usage at Agricultural Enterprises -- Methodical approaches to implementation of financial bank stability -- Accounting and analytical methods for identifying risks of agricultural enterprises’ sustainable development -- Managing of the Living Quality of Population in the Social Sphere -- Accounting essence of amortization policy -- Problems and prospects for development of family households in Ukraine -- Comprehensive Assessment of the White Roots Aroma -- Influence of the Growth Regulator Application Method on Antioxidant Plant System Activity of Winter Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.) -- Effects of Different Dietary Selenium Sources Including Probiotics Mixture on Growth Performance, feed Utilization, Serum Biochemical Profile of Quails -- Influence of Oat Seed Extract Bioflavonoids on the Antioxidant Status of Geese -- Screening of Agricultural Raw Materials and Long-term Storage Products to Identify Bacillary Contaminants -- Development of Formulation and Quality Assessment of Fast-Cooking Grain Composition for Pregnant Women -- Innovative Technology of the Scoured Core of the Sunflower Seeds After Oil Expression for the Bread Quality Increasing -- Effect of Living Mulch on Chlorophyll Index, Leaf Moisture Content and Leaf Area of Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.) -- Modification of Modeling Methods Toxic Hepatodistrophy in Rats -- Technological Properties of Winter Wheat Grain Depending on the Ecological and Geographical Origin of a Variety and Weather Conditions -- Multicriteria Optimization of Quality Indicators of Sweet Cherryfruits of Ukrainian Selection During Freezing and Storage -- Effect of Preparations Methyure (6-methyl-2-mercapto-4-hydroxypyrimidine) on Corn (Zea Mays L.) …”
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Bidirectional optimality theory

Table of Contents: “…Bidirectional Optimality Theory; 3. Stochastic Optimality Theory; 4. Games and Bidirectional Optimality Theory; 5. …”
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Optimization of stochastic discrete systems and control on complex networks : complex networks by Lozovanu, Dmitrii, Pickl, Stefan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…1.7.2 An Asymptotic Behavior Analysis of the Expected Total Cost Based on the z-Transform1.7.3 Determining the Expected Total Cost for Non-stationary Markov Processes; 1.7.4 Definition and Calculation of the Variance of the Total Cost; 1.8 Markov Processes with Discounted Costs; 1.9 Semi-Markov Processes with Transition Costs; 1.10 Determining the Expected Total Cost for Markov Processes with Stopping States; 2 Stochastic Optimal Control Problems and Markov Decision Processes with Infinite Time Horizon.…”
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Industrial Engineering and Operations Management XXVI IJCIEOM (2nd Edition), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 22–24, 2021

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Industrial Engineering and Operations Management XXVI IJCIEOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8–11, 2020

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Stochastic Processes, Statistical Methods, and Engineering Mathematics SPAS 2019, Västerås, Sweden, September 30–October 2

Table of Contents: “….: Option Pricing and Stochastic Optimization -- Part III. Engineering Mathematics -- Chapter 25. …”
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Bio-Inspired Computational Paradigms : Security and Privacy in Dynamic Smart Networks

Table of Contents: “…1.8 Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Should Utilize ACO Techniques for Developing Low-Energy Routing Protocols -- 1.9 Smart Swarming for Mobile Wireless IoT Devices -- 1.10 Stochastic Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Fundamentals -- 1.11 Allocating Resources Based On Load and Identifying Users -- 1.12 Computing at the Edge and Wireless Caching -- 1.13 Caching Over Wireless -- 1.14 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Bio-Inspired Comparison Mechanism Toward Intelligent Decision Support System -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Role of AI in DSS -- 2.3 Role of Fuzzy in DSS -- 2.4 Bio-Inspired Algorithms…”
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Global optimization methods in geophysical inversion by Sen, Mrinal K.

Table of Contents: “…5.6 Multimodal fitness functions, genetic drift, GA with sharing, and repeat (parallel) GA -- 5.7 Uncertainty estimates -- 5.8 Evolutionary programming -- a variant of GA -- 5.9 Summary -- 6 Other stochastic optimization methods -- 6.1 The neighborhood algorithm (NA) -- 6.1.1 Voronoi diagrams -- 6.1.2 Voronoi diagrams in SA and GA -- 6.1.3 Neighborhood sampling algorithm -- 6.2 Particle swarm optimization (PSO) -- 6.3 Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) -- 7 Geophysical applications of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms -- 7.1 1D seismic waveform inversion -- 7.1.1 Application of heat bath SA -- 7.1.2 Application of GAs -- 7.1.3 Real-data examples -- 7.1.4 Hybrid GA/LI inversion using different measures of fitness -- 7.1.5 Hybrid VFSA inversion using different strategies -- 7.2 Prestack migration velocity estimation -- 7.2.1 1D earth structure -- 7.2.2 2D earth structure -- 7.2.3 Multiple and simultaneous VFSA for imaging -- 7.3 Inversion of resistivity sounding data for 1D earth models -- 7.3.1 Exact parameterization -- 7.3.2 Overparameterization with smoothing -- 7.4 Inversion of resistivity profiling data for 2D earth models -- 7.4.1 Inversion of synthetic data -- 7.4.2 Inversion of field data -- 7.5 Inversion of magnetotelluric sounding data for 1D earth models -- 7.6 Stochastic reservoir modeling -- 7.7 Seismic deconvolution by mean field annealing (MFA) and Hopfield network -- 7.7.1 Synthetic example -- 7.7.2 Real-data example -- 7.8 Joint inversion -- 7.8.1 Joint travel time and gravity inversion -- 7.8.2 Time-lapse (4D) seismic and well production joint inversion -- 8 Uncertainty estimation -- 8.1 Methods of numerical integration -- 8.1.1 Grid search or enumeration -- 8.1.2 Monte Carlo integration -- 8.1.3 Importance sampling -- 8.1.4 Multiple MAP estimation -- 8.2 Simulated annealing: the Gibbs sampler.…”
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Large-Scale Scientific Computations 14th International Conference, LSSC 2023, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 5–9, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

Table of Contents: “…Invited Papers -- An Implementation of a Coarse-fine Mesh Stabilized Schwarz Method for a Three-space Dimensional PDE-problem -- Mixed Finite Element Methods for the Navier–Stokes–Biot Model -- Preconditioning and Multilevel Methods -- Numerical Comparison of Block Preconditioners for Poroelasticity -- Two-dimensional Semi-linear Riesz Space Fractional Diffusion Equations in Convex Domains: GLT Spectral Analysis and Multigrid Solvers -- Continuation Newton Methods with Applications to Plasticity -- Fractures and Mixed Dimensional Modeling: Discretizations, Solvers, and Methodology -- Mixed and Nitsche’s Discretizations of Frictional Contact-mechanics in Fractured Porous Media -- Machine Learning and Model Order Reduction for Large Scale Predictive Simulations -- Towards Efficient SOT-assisted STT-MRAM Cell Switching Using Reinforcement Learning -- Machine Learning Algorithms for Parameter Identification for Reactive Flow in Porous Media -- Randomized Symplectic Model Order Reduction for Hamiltonian Systems -- Adaptive Localized Reduced Basis Methods for Large Scale PDE-constrained Optimization -- Application of Deep Kernel Models for Certified and Adaptive RB-ML-ROM Surrogate Modeling -- Fractional Differential Problems: Theoretical Aspects, Algorithms and Applications -- Parametric Analysis of Space-time Fractional Pennes Bioheat Model Using a Collocation Method Based on Radial Basis Functions and Chebyshev Polynomials -- Numerical Determination of Source from Point Observation in a Time-Fractional Boundary-Value Problem on Disjoint Intervals -- The Wright Function – Numerical Approximation and Hypergeometric Representation -- Study of Sparsification Schemes for the FEM Stiffness Matrix of Fractional Diffusion Problems -- Fractional Diffusion Problems with Reflecting Boundaries -- Variational Analysis and Optimal Control -- A Mean Field Model For Counter CBRN Threats -- A Sufficient Condition for a Discrete-Time Optimal Control Problem -- Stochastic Optimal Control and Numerical Methods in Economics and Finance -- Computation of the Unknown Time-Dependent Volatility of American Options from Integral Observations -- Tensor Methods for Big Data Analytics and Low-Rank Approximations of PDEs Solutions -- Efficient Solution of Stochastic Galerkin Matrix Equations via Reduced Basis and Tensor Train Approximation -- The Tensor-Train Mimetic Finite Difference Method For Three-dimensional Maxwell’s Wave Propagation Equations -- A Functional Tensor Train Library in RUST for Numerical Integration and Resolution of Partial Differential Equations -- Applications of Metaheuristics to Large-Scale Problems -- Solving the Mountain Car Problem Using Genetic Algorithms -- Ant Algorithm with Local Search Procedure for Multiple Knapsack Problem -- Variable Neighborhood Search inHamming Space -- An Improved Algorithm for Fredholm Integral Equations -- Optimization of the Standard Lattice Sequence for Multidimensional Integrals Regarding Large-Scale Finance Problems -- Circular Intuitionistic Fuzzy Knapsack Problem -- Large-Scale Models: Numerical Methods, Parallel Computations and Applications -- Clouds Formed by Thermals Arising and Evolving under the Influence of the Coriolis Force -- A Nonstandard Finite Difference Method for a General Epidemic Model -- Minimization of Energy Functionals via FEM: Implementation of hp-FEM -- Influence of the Grid Resolutions on the Computer Simulated Transport and Transformation Atmospheric Composition Processes over the Territory of Bulgaria -- Development of New High Performance Computer Architectures and Improvements in Danish Eulerian Model for Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants -- Evaluation of the Effects of the National Emission Reduction Strategies for Years 2020-2029 and after 2030 on the AQI on the Territory of Bulgaria -- Mathematical and Computational Modeling of a Nonlinear Elliptic Problem in Divergence Form -- Two Approaches for Identifying Epidemiological Parameters Illustrated with COVID-19 Data for Bulgaria -- Improved Stochastic Lattice Methods for Large-scale Air Pollution Model -- HPC and HPDA: Algorithms and Applications -- Parallel Solution of the Schrödinger-Poisson Equation on GPUs -- Anastylosis of Frescos – a Web Service in an HPC Environment -- A Resolvent Quasi-Monte Carlo Method for Estimating the Minimum Eigenvalues Using the Error Balancing -- Influence of the Grid Resolutions on the Computer Simulated Air Quality Indices over the Territory of Bulgaria -- Application of Active Subspaces for Model Reduction and Identification of Design Space -- EOCSim: A CloudSim-Based Simulator for Earth Observation Data Processing in Clouds -- About Methods of Vector Addition over FiniteFields Using Extended Vector Registers -- Grid Search Optimization of Novel SNN-ESN Classifier on a Supercomputer Platform -- Parallelisms of PG(3,4) with a Great Number of Regular Spreads -- Contributed Papers -- On Some Quadratic Eigenvalue Problems -- Numerical Determination of Time-dependent Volatility for American Option When the Optimal Exercise Boundary Is Known -- Exploring the Global Solution Space of a Simple Schrödinger-Poisson Problem.…”
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Optimal learning by Powell, Warren B., 1955-

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Modern Trends in Controlled Stochastic Processes Theory and Applications, V.III

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Mathematical Control Theory and Finance by Sarychev, Andrey

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Differential evolution : fundamentals and applications in electrical engineering by Qing, Anyong

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Restless Multi-Armed Bandit in Opportunistic Scheduling by Wang, Kehao, Chen, Lin

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Energy-Efficient Scheduling under Delay Constraints for Wireless Networks by Berry, Randal, Modiano, Eytan, Zafer, Murtaza

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Introduction to Applied Optimization by Diwekar, Urmila M.

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