Calculus of variations books

This book provides a basic, initial resource, introducing science and engineering students to the field of optimization....  Read More >>

A major contribution of the book is the development of generalized Malliavin calculus in the framework of white...  Read More >>

Focusing on applications to science and engineering, this book presents the results of the ITN-FP7 SADCO network’s innovative...  Read More >>

This book offers a timely snapshot of current soft-computing research and solutions to decision-making and optimization...  Read More >>

The first part of this volume gathers the lecture notes of the courses of the “XVII Escuela Hispano-Francesa”, held...  Read More >>

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This book offers a timely snapshot of soft computing methodologies and their applications to various problems related...  Read More >>

This book provides an introduction to PDE-constrained optimisation using finite elements and the adjoint approach....  Read More >>

The methodology is applied to solve mathematical functions considering test cases from the literature and various...  Read More >>

Providing an introduction to stochastic optimal control in infinite dimension, this book gives a complete account...  Read More >>

Consisting of two parts, the first part of this volume is an essentially self-contained exposition of the geometric...  Read More >>

This book simultaneously presents the theory and the numerical treatment of elliptic boundary value problems, since...  Read More >>

Collating different aspects of Vector-valued Partial Differential Equations and Applications, this volume is based...  Read More >>

This edited volume includes thoroughly collected on sensing and control for autonomous vehicles. There is a growing...  Read More >>

Other refinements in the new edition include an enlarged biography of Emmy Noether's life and work, parallels drawn...  Read More >>

The first part of the book is devoted to the transport equation for a given vector field, exploiting the lagrangian...  Read More >>

For this reason we consider in this book the proposed method using fuzzy systems, fuzzy controllers, and bee colony...  Read More >>

Devoted to the structure of approximate solutions of discrete-time optimal control problems and approximate solutions...  Read More >>

This book is a tribute to Professor Laurent Praly and follows on from a workshop celebrating the occasion of his...  Read More >>

There was a special year devoted to the topic of several complex variables at the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm,...  Read More >>

The papers presented in this volume address diverse challenges in energy systems, ranging from operational to investment...  Read More >>

The second edition of Convex Analysis and Monotone Operator Theory in Hilbert Spaces greatly expands on the first...  Read More >>

This book introduces a number of recent advances regarding periodic feedback stabilization for linear and time periodic...  Read More >>

Rather than use integrals of the systems vector field, we employ Lie-bracket-based (i.e., derivative-based) averaging....  Read More >>

By establishing an alternative foundation of control theory, this thesis represents a significant advance in the...  Read More >>