Modeling, Computation and Optimization

This book reviews recent work in the fields of mathematical modeling, computation, and optimization, and examines applications of several mathematical models to problems in statistics, games, optimization, and economics. Coverage encompasses areas like models for wireless networks, models of Nash networks, dynamic models of advertising, and support vector machines. Some specific topics covered include connections between concepts in reliability and economics, coextrema additive operators, dynamic optimal advertising expenditure strategies for two successive generations of high technology products, fair allocation to discourage free riding behavior, and a Stackelberg differential game with overlapping generations for the management of a renewable resource. The audience for the book includes researchers in mathematical modeling, game theory, optimization, and computational mathematics. The editor is affiliated with the Indian Statistical Institute, India. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)