Download or read book Convex Functions Partial Orderings and Statistical Applications written by Josip E. Peajcariaac and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1992-06-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research-level book presents up-to-date information concerning recent developments in convex functions and partial orderings and some applications in mathematics, statistics, and reliability theory. The book will serve researchers in mathematical and statistical theory and theoretical and applied reliabilists. Presents classical and newly published results on convex functions and related inequalities Explains partial ordering based on arrangement and their applications in mathematics, probability, statsitics, and reliability Demonstrates the connection of partial ordering with other well-known orderings such as majorization and Schur functions Will generate further research and applications

Download or read book Convex Functions written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1974-02-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convex Functions

Download or read book Convex Functions and Their Applications written by Constantin P. Niculescu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough introduction to an important area of mathematics Contains recent results Includes many exercises

Download or read book Discrete Convex Analysis written by Kazuo Murota and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete Convex Analysis is a novel paradigm for discrete optimization that combines the ideas in continuous optimization (convex analysis) and combinatorial optimization (matroid/submodular function theory) to establish a unified theoretical framework for nonlinear discrete optimization. The study of this theory is expanding with the development of efficient algorithms and applications to a number of diverse disciplines like matrix theory, operations research, and economics. This self-contained book is designed to provide a novel insight into optimization on discrete structures and should reveal unexpected links among different disciplines. It is the first and only English-language monograph on the theory and applications of discrete convex analysis.

Download or read book Convex Functions Partical Orderings and Statistical Applications written by J. E. Pečarić and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Easy Path to Convex Analysis and Applications written by Boris Mordukhovich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convex optimization has an increasing impact on many areas of mathematics, applied sciences, and practical applications. It is now being taught at many universities and being used by researchers of different fields. As convex analysis is the mathematical foundation for convex optimization, having deep knowledge of convex analysis helps students and researchers apply its tools more effectively. The main goal of this book is to provide an easy access to the most fundamental parts of convex analysis and its applications to optimization. Modern techniques of variational analysis are employed to clarify and simplify some basic proofs in convex analysis and build the theory of generalized differentiation for convex functions and sets in finite dimensions. We also present new applications of convex analysis to location problems in connection with many interesting geometric problems such as the Fermat-Torricelli problem, the Heron problem, the Sylvester problem, and their generalizations. Of course, we do not expect to touch every aspect of convex analysis, but the book consists of sufficient material for a first course on this subject. It can also serve as supplemental reading material for a course on convex optimization and applications.

Download or read book Schur Convex Functions and Inequalities written by Huan-nan Shi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work introduces the theory and applications of Schur-convex functions. The second volume mainly focuses on the application of Schur-convex functions in sequences inequalities, integral inequalities, mean value inequalities for two variables, mean value inequalities for multi-variables, and in geometric inequalities.

Download or read book Convex Functions Monotone Operators and Differentiability written by Robert R. Phelps and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These notes start with an introduction to the differentiability of convex functions on Banach spaces, leading to the study of Asplund spaces and their intriguing relationship to monotone operators (and more general set-values maps) and Banach spaces with the Radon-Nikodym property. While much of this is classical, some of it is presented using streamlined proofs which were not available until recently. Considerable attention is paid to contemporary results on variational principles and perturbed optimization in Banach spaces, exhibiting their close connections with Asplund spaces. An introductory course in functional analysis is adequate background for reading these notes which can serve as the basis for a seminar of a one-term graduate course. There are numerous excercises, many of which form an integral part of the exposition.

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Download or read book Convex Analysis and Beyond written by Boris S. Mordukhovich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-24 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unified theory of convex functions, sets, and set-valued mappings in topological vector spaces with its specifications to locally convex, Banach and finite-dimensional settings. These developments and expositions are based on the powerful geometric approach of variational analysis, which resides on set extremality with its characterizations and specifications in the presence of convexity. Using this approach, the text consolidates the device of fundamental facts of generalized differential calculus to obtain novel results for convex sets, functions, and set-valued mappings in finite and infinite dimensions. It also explores topics beyond convexity using the fundamental machinery of convex analysis to develop nonconvex generalized differentiation and its applications. The text utilizes an adaptable framework designed with researchers as well as multiple levels of students in mind. It includes many exercises and figures suited to graduate classes in mathematical sciences that are also accessible to advanced students in economics, engineering, and other applications. In addition, it includes chapters on convex analysis and optimization in finite-dimensional spaces that will be useful to upper undergraduate students, whereas the work as a whole provides an ample resource to mathematicians and applied scientists, particularly experts in convex and variational analysis, optimization, and their applications.

Download or read book An Easy Path to Convex Analysis and Applications written by Boris Mordukhovich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the most fundamental parts of convex analysis and its applications to optimization and location problems. Accessible techniques of variational analysis are employed to clarify and simplify some basic proofs in convex analysis and to build a theory of generalized differentiation for convex functions and sets in finite dimensions. The book serves as a bridge for the readers who have just started using convex analysis to reach deeper topics in the field. Detailed proofs are presented for most of the results in the book and also included are many figures and exercises for better understanding the material. Applications provided include both the classical topics of convex optimization and important problems of modern convex optimization, convex geometry, and facility location.

Download or read book Convex Analysis and Minimization Algorithms I written by Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convex Analysis may be considered as a refinement of standard calculus, with equalities and approximations replaced by inequalities. As such, it can easily be integrated into a graduate study curriculum. Minimization algorithms, more specifically those adapted to non-differentiable functions, provide an immediate application of convex analysis to various fields related to optimization and operations research. These two topics making up the title of the book, reflect the two origins of the authors, who belong respectively to the academic world and to that of applications. Part I can be used as an introductory textbook (as a basis for courses, or for self-study); Part II continues this at a higher technical level and is addressed more to specialists, collecting results that so far have not appeared in books.

Download or read book Convexity and Well Posed Problems written by Roberto Lucchetti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals mainly with the study of convex functions and their behavior from the point of view of stability with respect to perturbations. We shall consider convex functions from the most modern point of view: a function is de?ned to be convex whenever its epigraph, the set of the points lying above the graph, is a convex set. Thus many of its properties can be seen also as properties of a certain convex set related to it. Moreover, we shall consider extended real valued functions, i. e. , functions taking possibly the values?? and +?. The reason for considering the value +? is the powerful device of including the constraint set of a constrained minimum problem into the objective function itself (by rede?ning it as +? outside the constraint set). Except for trivial cases, the minimum value must be taken at a point where the function is not +?, hence at a point in the constraint set. And the value ?? is allowed because useful operations, such as the inf-convolution, can give rise to functions valued?? even when the primitive objects are real valued. Observe that de?ning the objective function to be +? outside the closed constraint set preserves lower semicontinuity, which is the pivotal and mi- mal continuity assumption one needs when dealing with minimum problems. Variational calculus is usually based on derivatives.

Download or read book Undergraduate Convexity From Fourier And Motzkin To Kuhn And Tucker written by Niels Lauritzen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on undergraduate teaching to students in computer science, economics and mathematics at Aarhus University, this is an elementary introduction to convex sets and convex functions with emphasis on concrete computations and examples.Starting from linear inequalities and Fourier-Motzkin elimination, the theory is developed by introducing polyhedra, the double description method and the simplex algorithm, closed convex subsets, convex functions of one and several variables ending with a chapter on convex optimization with the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions, duality and an interior point algorithm. Study Guide here

Download or read book Notions of Convexity written by Lars Hörmander and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two chapters of this book are devoted to convexity in the classical sense, for functions of one and several real variables respectively. This gives a background for the study in the following chapters of related notions which occur in the theory of linear partial differential equations and complex analysis such as (pluri-)subharmonic functions, pseudoconvex sets, and sets which are convex for supports or singular supports with respect to a differential operator. In addition, the convexity conditions which are relevant for local or global existence of holomorphic differential equations are discussed.

Download or read book Convex Ordering Among Functions with Applications to Reliability and Mathematical Statistics written by Wai Chan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardy, Littlewood and Polya (1934) introduced the notion of one function being convex with respect to a second function and developed some inequalities concerning the means of the functions. We use this notion to establish a partial order called convex-ordering among functions. In particular, the distribution functions encountered in many parametric families in reliability theory are convex-ordered. We have formulated some inequalities which can be used for testing whether a sample comes from F or G, when F and G are within the same convex family. Performance characteristics of different coherent structures can also be compared with respect to this partial ordering. For example, we will show that the reliability of a k+l-out-of-n system is convex with respect to the reliability of a k-out-of-n system. When F is convex with respect to G, the tail of the distribution F is heavier than that of G; therefore, our convex ordering implies stochastic ordering. The ordering is also related to total positivity and monotone likelihood ratio families. This provides us a tool to obtain some useful results in reliability and mathematical statistics.

Download or read book Fundamentals of Convex Analysis and Optimization written by Rafael Correa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at an innovative approach within the framework of convex analysis and optimization, based on an in-depth study of the behavior and properties of the supremum of families of convex functions. It presents an original and systematic treatment of convex analysis, covering standard results and improved calculus rules in subdifferential analysis. The tools supplied in the text allow a direct approach to the mathematical foundations of convex optimization, in particular to optimality and duality theory. Other applications in the book concern convexification processes in optimization, non-convex integration of the Fenchel subdifferential, variational characterizations of convexity, and the study of Chebychev sets. At the same time, the underlying geometrical meaning of all the involved concepts and operations is highlighted and duly emphasized. A notable feature of the book is its unifying methodology, as well as the novelty of providing an alternative or complementary view to the traditional one in which the discipline is presented to students and researchers. This textbook can be used for courses on optimization, convex and variational analysis, addressed to graduate and post-graduate students of mathematics, and also students of economics and engineering. It is also oriented to provide specific background for courses on optimal control, data science, operations research, economics (game theory), etc. The book represents a challenging and motivating development for those experts in functional analysis, convex geometry, and any kind of researchers who may be interested in applications of their work.