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This book examines modern trends and open problems in optimization. Coverage includes recent developments in several optimization-related topics such as decision theory, linear programming, turnpike theory, duality theory, convex analysis, and queuing theory.

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The 21 self-contained chapters in this book, include recent developments in several optimization-related topics such as decision theory, linear programming, turnpike theory, duality theory, convex analysis, and queueing theory. This work will be a valuable tool not only to specialists interested in the technical detail and various applications presented, but also to researchers interested in building upon the book´s theoretical results.

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List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Preface.- Editors.- Part I Optimization: Structure.- On the nondifferentiability of cone-monotone functions in Banach spaces.- Duality and a Farkas lemma for integer programs.- Some nonlinear Lagrange and penalty functions for problems with a single constraint.- Convergence of truncates in l1 optimal feedback control.- Asymptotical stability of optimal paths in nonconvex problems.- Pontryagin principle with a PDE - a unified approach.- A turnpike property for discrete-time control systems.- Mond-Weir duality.- Computing in the fundamental matrix of a M/G/1-type Markov chain.- A comparison of probabilistic and invariant subspace methods for the block M/G/1 Markov chain.- Interpolating maps, the modulus map and the Hadamard´s inequality.- Part II Optimization: Applications.- Estimating the size of correcting codes using extremal graph problems.- New perspectives on optimal transforms of random vectors.- Optimum capacity assignment in general queueing networks,- Analysis of a simple control policy for stormwater management in two connected dams.- Optimal design of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems.- The (k+1)-th component of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems.- Optimizing properties of plastics compounds containing wood flour.- Constrained spanning, Steiner trees and the triangle inequality.- Parallel line search.- Alternative mathematical programming models: a case for a coal blending decision process.

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