Part 1: Artificial Intelligence -- 1. Application of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic -- 2. An IOT-Based COVID-19 Detector Using K-Nearest Neighbour -- 3. Predictive Analytics for Early Detection of COVID-19 by Fuzzy Logic -- 4. Role of Artificial Intelligence...

Modeling Reverse Logistics Network for Post-Sale Service Under International Ecosystem -- Sustainable Parallel Machine Scheduling: Trade-Off Between Tardiness And Energy Consumption -- Modeling A Coordinated Supply Chain Under Service Level Constraint With Price-Sensitive Stochastic Demand And...

Optimization Software Class Libraries -- Distribution, Cooperation, and Hybridization for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Framework for Local Search Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Hotframe: A Heuristic Optimization Framework -- Writing Local Search Algorithms Using...

The book addresses the problem of a time-varying unconditional variance of return processes utilizing a spline function. The knots of the spline functions are estimated as free parameters within a joined estimation process together with the parameters of the mean, the conditional variance and...

Chapter 1: Second-price auctions -- Chapter 2: First-price auctions -- Chapter 3: First-price auctions, Extensions -- Chapter 4: All-pay auctions and auctions with asymmetrically informed bidders -- Chapter 5: Third-price auctions, kth-price auctions, and lotteries -- Chapter 6: The Revenue...

Main Performance Categories: Effectiveness and Efficiency -- Multi-criteria Production Theory: Foundation of Performance Evaluation -- Data Envelopment Methodology of Performance Evaluation -- Challenges of Performance Evaluation in Practice. .

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Environmental Policies in the Power Sector -- Chapter 3. Features of Power Sectors -- Chapter 4. Analysis of Power System Operations with Non-Dominant Firms -- Chapter 5. Analysis of Power System Operations with a Dominant Firm and an Oligopolistic Industry...

Introduction and Problem Formulation -- Existence Theorems for Minimal Points -- Generalized Derivatives -- Tangent Cones -- Generalized Lagrange Multiplier Rule -- Duality -- Application to Extended Semidefinite Optimization -- Extension to Discrete-Continuous Problems -- Direct Treatment of...

Grundlagen -- Lineare Funktionen -- Lineare Gleichungssysteme -- Funktionen -- Ableitungen von Funktionen -- Anwendung der Differentialrechnung -- Funktionen mit mehreren Variablen -- Optimierung ohne und mit Nebenbedingungen -- Integralrechnung -- Matrizenrechnung.

Einführung in die empirische Datenanalyse -- Regressionsanalyse -- Varianzanalyse -- Kontingenzanalyse (Kreuztabellierung) -- Logistische Regression -- Diskriminanzanalyse -- Faktorenanalyse -- Clusteranalyse -- Conjointanalyse.