Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
2005, Approx. 585 p. 107 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-23918-9
About this textbook
This greatly expanded second edition of Survival Analysis- A Self-learning
Text provides a highly readable description of state-of-the-art
methods of analysis of survival/event-history data. This text is
suitable for researchers and statisticians working in the medical
and other life sciences as well as statisticians in academia who
teach introductory and second-level courses on survival analysis.
The second edition continues to use the unique "lecture-book"
format of the first (1996) edition with the addition of three new
chapters on advanced topics:
Chapter 7: Parametric Models
Chapter 8: Recurrent events
Chapter 9: Competing Risks.
Also, the Computer Appendix has been revised to provide step-by-step
instructions for using the computer packages STATA (Version 7.0),
SAS (Version 8.2), and SPSS (version 11.5) to carry out the
procedures presented in the main text.
The original six chapters have been modified slightly
Table of contents
Introduction to Survival Analysis * Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves
and the Log-Rank Test * The Cox Proportional Hazards Model and
Its Characteristics * Evaluating the Proportional Hazards
Assumption * The Stratified Cox Procedure * Extension of the Cox
Proportional Hazards Model for Time-Dependent Variables
Series: Mathematiques et Applications, Vol. 51
2006, XIV, 276 p. 11 illus., Softcover
ISBN: 3-540-28373-0
About this textbook
Le but de ce livre est de presenter les developpements recents du
controle geometrique oriente vers la commande (notamment optimale)
des vehicules spatiaux. Il est principalement destine aux
etudiants de 3e cycle et aux chercheurs, et son contenu a servi
de base a une serie de cours de controle et d'automatique
enseignes a des etudiants de 3e cycle. Il s'appuie sur des
projets de recherche avec l'ESTEC et le CNES, sur le controle
d'attitude d'un satellite, le probleme de transfert orbital en
temps minimal, et le probleme de rentree atmospherique d'une
navette spatiale. Une premiere partie est consacree a une
introduction a la mecanique celeste, et la seconde au controle
des vehicules spatiaux. Un dernier chapitre concerne les methodes
numeriques dites indirectes, developpees a partir des etudes des
auteurs: methode de tir et algorithmes de calcul des points
conjugues.
Table of contents
Series: Applied Optimization, Vol. 99
2005, XVIII, 450 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-26769-7
About this book
The search for the best possible performance is inherent in human
nature. Individuals, enterprises and governments are seeking
optimal, that is, the best possible, solutions for problems that
they meet. Evidently, continuous optimization plays an
increasingly significant role in everyday management and
technical decisions in science, engineering and commerce.
The collection of 16 refereed papers in this book covers a
diverse number of topics and provides a good picture of recent
research in continuous optimization. The first part of the book
presents substantive survey articles in a number of important
topic areas of continuous optimization. Most of the papers in the
second part present results on the theoretical aspects as well as
numerical methods of continuous optimization. The papers in the
third part are mainly concerned with applications of continuous
optimization.
Hence, the book will be an additional valuable source of
information to faculty, students, and researchers who use
continuous optimization to model and solve problems.
Table of contents
Preface.- PART I. SURVEYS.- Linear Semi-infinite Optimization:
Recent Advances (M.A. Goberna).- Some Theoretical Aspects of
Newton's Method for Constrained Best Interpolation (H.-D. Qi).-
Optimization Methods in Direct and Inverse Scattering (A.G. Ramm,
S. Gutman).- On Complexity of Stochastic Programming Problems (A.
Shapiro, A. Nemirovski).- Nonlinear Optimization in Modeling
Environments: Software Implementations for Compilers,
Spreadsheets, Modeling Languages, and Integrated Computing
Systems (J.D. Pinter).- Supervised Data Classification via Max-min
Separability (A.M. Bagirov, J. Ugon).- A Review of Applications
of the Cutting Angle Methods (G. Beliakov).- PART II. THEORY AND
NUMERICAL METHODS.- A Numerical Method for Concave Programming
Problems (A. Chinchuluun, E. Rentsen, P.M. Pardalos).-
Convexification and Monotone Optimization (X. Sun, J. Li, D. Li).-
Generalized Lagrange Multipliers for Nonconvex Directionally
Differentiable Programs (N. Dinh, G.M. Lee, L.A. Tuan).- Slice
Convergence of Sums of Conves Functions in Banach Spaces and
Saddle Point Convergence (R. Wenczel, A. Eberhard).- Topical
Functions and Their Properties in a Class of Ordered Banach
Spaces (H. Mohebi).- PART III. APPLICATIONS.- Dynamical Systems
Described by Relational Elasticities with Applications (M.
Mammadov, A. Rubinov, J. Yearwood).- Impulsive Control of a
Sequence of Rumour Processes (C. Pearce, Y. Kaya, S. Belen).-
Minimization of the Sum of Minima of Conves Functions and Its
Application to Clustering (A. Rubinov, N. Soukhorokova, J. Ugon).-
Analysis of a Practical Control Policy for Water Storage in Two
Connected Dams (P. Howlett, J. Piantadosi, C. Pearce).
Series: Natural Computing Series
2005, XIV, 192 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 3-540-24193-0
About this textbook
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is now a mature problem-solving
family of heuristics that has found its way into many important
real-life problems and into leading-edge scientific research.
Spatially structured EAs have different properties than standard,
mixing EAs. By virtue of the structured disposition of the
population members they bring about new dynamical features that
can be harnessed to solve difficult problems faster and more
efficiently. This book describes the state of the art in
spatially structured EAs by using graph concepts as a unifying
theme. The models, their analysis, and their empirical behavior
are presented in detail. Moreover, there is new material on non-standard
networked population structures such as small-world networks.
The book should be of interest to advanced undergraduate and
graduate students working in evolutionary computation, machine
learning, and optimization. It should also be useful to
researchers and professionals working in fields where the
topological structures of populations and their evolution plays a
role.
Written for:
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and
professionals
Keywords:
Evolutionary computing
Parallel and distributed evolutionary computing
Populations on networks
Structured populations
ISBN: 81-7319-502-1
Publication Year: December 2005
Pages: 400
Binding: Hard Back
Dimension: 160mm x 240mm
About the book
These notes constitute a lucid introduction to gElliptic Curvesh,
one of the central and vigorous areas of current mathematical
research. The subject has been studied from diverse view points
--- analytic, algebraic and arithmetical; these notes offer the
reader glimpses of all three aspects and presents some of the
basic important theorems in all of them. The first part
introduces a little of the theory of Riemann surfaces and goes on
to the study of tori and their projective embeddings as cubics.
This part ends with a discussion of the identification of the
moduli space of complex tori with the quotient of the upper half
plane by the modular groups. The second part handles the
algebraic geometry of elliptic curves. It begins with a rapid
introduction to some basic algebraic geometry and then focuses on
elliptic curves. The Rieman-Roch theorem and the Riemann
hypothesis for elliptic curves are proved and the structure of
endomorphism ring of an elliptic curve are described. The third
and last part is on the arithmetic of elliptic curves over Q. The
Mordell-Weil theorem, Mazur's theorem on torsion in rational
points of an elliptic curve over Q, theorems of Thue and Siegel
are among the results which are presented. There is a brief
discussion of theta functions, Eisenstein series and cusp forms
with an application to representation of natural numbers as sums
of squares. The notes end with the formulation of the Birch and
Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures. There is an additional brief chapter
(Appendix C) written in July 2004 by Kirti Joshi describing some
developments since the original notes were written up in the
present form in 1992.
Table of content
Preface / Part I: Analytic Theory of Elliptic Curves: Doubly
periodic functions / Riemann Surfaces / Tori / Isomorphism of
Tori and the j invariant / All Smooth Cubics are Complex Tori /
Moduli / Part II: Geometry of Elliptic Curves: Some Results from
Commutative Algebra / Varieties / Further Properties of Varieties
/ Intersection Theory for Plane Curves / Geometry of Curves /
Geometry of Elliptic Curves / Structure of Endomorphisms of
Elliptic Curves / Part III: Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves:
Rational Points on Curves / The Mordell-Weil Theorem for Elliptic
Curves over bf Q / Computing The Mordell-Weil Group / Integer
Points, and the Theorems of Thue and Siegel / Representation of
Numbers by Squares / The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer
/ Part IV: Appendices / Bibliography.
ISBN: 81-7319-688-5
Publication Year: October 2005
Pages: 120
Binding:
Dimension: 160mm x 240mm
Weight:
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Preface / Quantum Probability / Quantum Gates and Circuits /
Universal Quantum Gates / The Fourier Transform and an
Application / Order Finding / Shor's Algorithm / Quantum Error
Correcting Codes / Classical Information Theory / Quantum
Information Theory.
Audience
Graduate Students and Researchers