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List of Figures xv
Preface xxv
Acknowledgments xxix
Part I. Introduction and Foundations
1. Differential Equations 3
Xin-She Yang
2. Mathematical Modelling 23
Xin-She Yang
3. Numerical Methods: An Introduction 45
Xin-She Yang
4. Teaching Mathematical Modelling 57
Thomas Lingefjärd
Part II. Mathematical Modelling with Multidisciplinary Applications
5. Industrial Mathematics with Applications 83
Alfredo Bermúd... MORE
6. Data Analysis in Economics 123
Ivan Jeliazkov and Mohammad Arshad Rahman
7. Inverse Problems in ODEs 151
H. Kunze and D. La Torre
8. Estimation of Model Parameters 169
Robert Piché
9. Parabolic PDE in Financial Engineering 191
L. A. Boukas, K. I. Vasileiadis, S. Z. Xanthopoulos, A. N. Yannacopoulos
10. Decision Modeling in Supply Chain Management 229
Huajun Tang
11. Modelling Pricing Weather Derivatives 257
Fred Espen Benth
12. Decision Theory in Social Sciences 285
E. V. Petracou and A. N. Yannacopoulos
13. Fractals, with applications to signal and image modeling 307
H. Kunze and D. La Torre
14. Efficient Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations 329
S. Natesan
Part III. Advanced Modelling Topics
15. Fractional Calculus and its Applications 357
Ivo Petráš
16. Goal Programming Model 397
Belaid Aouni, Cinzia Colapinto and Davide La Torre
17. Decision Theory and Game Theory 421
E. V. Petracou and A. N. Yannacopoulos
18. Control Problems on Differential Equations 449
Chuang Zheng
19. Markoc-jump stochastic models 473
Boualem Khouider
Problem Solutions 527
Index 559
XIN-SHE YANG, PhD, is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mathematical and Scientific Computing at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom, Reader in Modeling and Optimization at Middlesex University, UK, and Adjunct Professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation, a member of both the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the British Computer Society, a Fellow of The Royal Institution of Great Britain, and author of seven additional books and over 100 journal articles.