Logic-Based Methods for Optimization: Combining Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction By John Hooker(auth.)
2000 | 505 Pages | ISBN: 0471385212 | PDF | 10 MB
A pioneering look at the fundamental role of logic in optimization and constraint satisfaction While recent efforts to combine optimization and constraint satisfaction have received considerable attention, little has been said about using logic in optimization as the key to unifying the two fields. Logic-Based Methods for Optimization develops for the first time a comprehensive conceptual framework for integrating optimization and constraint satisfaction, then goes a step further and shows how extending logical inference to optimization allows for more powerful as well as flexible modeling and solution techniques. Designed to be easily accessible to industry professionals and academics in both operations research and artificial intelligence, the book provides a wealth of examples as well as elegant techniques and modeling frameworks ready for implementation. Timely, original, and thought-provoking, Logic-Based Methods for Optimization: * Demonstrates the advantages of combining the techniques in problem solving * Offers tutorials in constraint satisfaction/constraint programming and logical inference * Clearly explains such concepts as relaxation, cutting planes, nonserial dynamic programming, and Bender's decomposition * Reviews the necessary technologies for software developers seeking to combine the two techniques * Features extensive references to important computational studies * And much moreContent: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1-14): Chapter 2 Some Examples (pages 15-42): Chapter 3 The Logic of Propositions (pages 43-60): Chapter 4 The Logic of Discrete Variables (pages 61-68): Chapter 5 The Logic of 0?1 Inequalities (pages 69-88): Chapter 6 Cardinality Clauses (pages 89-103): Chapter 7 Classical Boolean Methods (pages 105-125): Chapter 8 Logic?Based Modeling (pages 127-148): Chapter 9 Logic?Based Branch and Bound (pages 149-161): Chapter 10 Constraint Generation (pages 163-183): Chapter 11 Domain Reduction (pages 185-202): Chapter 12 Constraint Programming (pages 203-223): Chapter 13 Continuous Relaxations (pages 225-270): Chapter 14 Decomposition Methods (pages 271-284): Chapter 15 Branching Rules (pages 285-304): Chapter 16 Relaxation Duality (pages 305-323): Chapter 17 Inference Duality (pages 325-360): Chapter 18 Search Strategies (pages 361-388): Chapter 19 Logic?Based Benders Decomposition (pages 389-422): Chapter 20 Nonserial Dynamic Programming (pages 423-441): Chapter 21 Discrete Relaxations (pages 443-462):

Load Testing of Bridges: Two Volume Set
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1138091987 | 777 Pages | PDF (True) | 55 MB
Load Testing of Bridges, featuring contributions from almost fifty authors from around the world across two interrelated volumes, deals with the practical aspects, the scientific developments, and the international views on the topic of load testing of bridges.

Jutta Krispenz, "Literarkritik und Stilstatistik im Alten Testament: Eine Studie zur literarkritischen Methode, durchgeführt an Texten aus den Büchern Jeremía, Ezechiel und 1 Könige"
English | 2001 | pages: 266 | ISBN: 3110170574 | PDF | 9,1 mb
This study subjects the conventional processes of literary criticism to a critical analysis which shows up the weaknesses of arguments from literary criticism in the Old Testament. It explores new ways for literary criticism using a concept of text derived from modern literary theories together with statistical procedures for the examination of style.

Liquid Crystals and their Computer Simulations
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108424058 | 703 Pages | PDF | 25 MB
Standing as the first unified textbook on the subject, Liquid Crystals and Their Computer Simulations provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of liquid crystals and of their Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics computer simulations. Liquid crystals have a complex physical nature, and, therefore, computer simulations are a key element of research in this field. This modern text develops a uniform formalism for addressing various spectroscopic techniques and other experimental methods for studying phase transitions of liquid crystals, and emphasises the links between their molecular organisation and observable static and dynamic properties. Aided by the inclusion of a set of Appendices containing detailed mathematical background and derivations, this book is accessible to a broad and multidisciplinary audience. Primarily intended for graduate students and academic researchers, it is also an invaluable reference for industrial researchers working on the development of liquid crystal display technology.

Russell Freedman, "Lincoln: A Photobiography"
English | 1989 | ISBN: 1467656690, 0395518482 | ASIN: B0068Q8CGO | EPUB | pages: 165 | 20.0 mb
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. This Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully chosen photographs and prints.

Peg O'Connor, "Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery"
English | 2016 | pages: 216 | ISBN: 1942094027 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Addiction and recovery are, at their core, about the meaning of life. Life on the Rocks is the first book to address addiction and recovery from a Western philosophical perspective, offering a powerful set of tools sharpened over millennia. It introduces some of the core concepts and vexing questions of philosophy to help addicts and those affected by their addiction examine and perhaps transform the meaning they make of their lives.

Harmony Clearwater Grace, "Lies My Doctor Told Me: Osteoporosis: How the Latest Medical Research on Bone Drugs and Calcium Could Save Your Bones, Y"
English | ISBN: 1618020137 | 2015 | 66 pages | AZW3 | 350 KB
You just got your bone density test back.

Phil Rosenkrantz, "Letters From Uncle Dave: The 73-Year Journey to Find a Missing in Action World War II Paratrooper"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1735195022, 1735195014 | ASIN: B08JQPC5N7 | EPUB | pages: 340 | 11.2 mb
A hero never came home from the war. Will his nephew's painstaking twenty-year search finally offer the family closure?

Douglas Laux, Ralph Pezzullo, "Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 125008136X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 11.6 mb
The explosive New York Times bestseller!

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English | July 26th, 2022 | ISBN: 0744054494 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 283.66 MB
The first proper Lebanese cookbook on the market! Fresh, flavorful, and healthy ingredients, prepared the right way!