Frank Werner

Gerd Wagner

Floriano De Rango

Tuncer Oren

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2021) that was held as an online event, from July 7 to 9, 2021. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based also on the conference chairs assessment, reviewers’ assessment, quality of presentation and audience interest, so that this book includes the extended and revised versions of the very best papers of the conference.

International Online Conference (SIMULTECH 2021)

Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications

"Adam Smith was dumbfounded. Could he really be attending an event taking place at the start of the third millennium? Smith tried to concentrate on what the speaker was saying. Who was he? What was going on? And what was the meaning of the words of the painting?" So begins The Amazing Journey of Adam Smith as the father of modern economics embarks on a voyage through time to discover whether his famous conclusion in The Wealth of Nations remains valid today: . . . he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. . . . By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. In this imaginative and thought provoking novel, Frank Werner explores the connection between financial self-interest and the evolving needs of society, often referred to as 'global sustainability.' As Adam Smith discovers, in the 21st century-where businesses can significantly damage or contribute to the world's ecological and social well being-the pursuit of profits may no longer be sufficient to create a sustainable world.

The Amazing Journey of Adam Smith

Yuri N. Sotskov

1. Introduction -- 2. Sequences, series, finance -- 3. Relations, mappings, functions of a real variable -- 4. Differentiation -- 5. Integration -- 6. Vectors -- 7. Matrices and determinants -- 8. Linear equations and inequalities -- 9. Linear programming -- 10. Eigenvalue problems and quadratic forms -- 11. Functions of several variables -- 12. Differential equations and difference equations.

Mathematics of Economics and Business

Graph theory is an important area of applied mathematics with a broad spectrum of applications in many fields. This book results from aSpecialIssue in the journal Mathematics entitled “Graph-Theoretic Problems and Their New Applications”. It contains 20 articles covering a broad spectrum of graph-theoretic works that were selected from 151 submitted papers after a thorough refereeing process. Among others, it includes a deep survey on mixed graphs and their use for solutions ti scheduling problems. Other subjects include topological indices, domination numbers of graphs, domination games, contraction mappings, and neutrosophic graphs. Several applications of graph theory are discussed, e.g., the use of graph theory in the context of molecular processes.

Graph-Theoretic Problems and Their New Applications

Aurelio Galfetti

The notion of "building in historical surroundings" gained a whole new meaning from Alexander Mitscherlich's 1965 book Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Stadte, and the subject has lost none of its topicality today. The Ticino architectural scene is particularly interesting in this respect: it has attracted international attention since the sixties because of its programmatic tendency towards design rebellion. Although Ticino architecture's considerable impact since then has come principally from new buildings, revitalization and conversion of historical architecture was always on a par with new building. Aurelio Galfetti is one of the leading lights of the Ticino scene, and his transformation of the ruined remains of the Castelgrande in Bellinzona into a contemporary museum and culture centre provides us with something like a provisional resume of decades of architectural reform effort. After a continuous series of typological corrections to Bellinzona's diffuse townscape, Galfetti was concerned mainly to sharpen public awareness of the genius loci and its history, but above all its future, when rebuilding the Castelgrande. These efforts produced what is without a doubt one of the most important conversion projects in recent building history since Carlo Scarpa's legendary work on the Castelvecchio in Verona. Galfetti had neither restored nor conserved Bellinzona's "Acropolis". At the most -- as the Neapolitan architect Francesco Venezia would say -- he had joined pieces together to spaces in which light, objects and landscape hold silent communication. He was concerned in the first place to transform an extraordinarily damaged historical situation into an analogue reality that would make it able to speak again. This happens in a way that places topography, town and monument in a completely new context, namely that of the late 20th century. If we really are to learn from the past and learn from history, then here history has been made present in the best sense of the word. Architectural historian Frank Werner has already made an intensive study of the architectural and theoretical roots of the Ticino reform movement in his book Neue Tessiner Architektur -- Perspektiven einer Utopie. Stefania Beretta is a highly esteemed architectural photographer in the Ticino and has photographed all the work of Galfetti.

Castelgrande, Bellinzona

Larysa Burtseva

Yuri Sotskov

This edited book presents new results in the area of the development of exact and heuristic scheduling algorithms. It contains eight articles accepted for publication for a Special Issue in the journal Algorithms. The book presents new algorithms, e.g., for flow shop, job shop, and parallel machine scheduling problems. The particular articles address subjects such as a heuristic for the routing and scheduling problem with time windows, applied to the automotive industry in Mexico, a heuristic for the blocking job shop problem with tardiness minimization based on new neighborhood structures, fast heuristics for the Euclidean traveling salesman problem or a new mathematical model for the period-aggregated resource leveling problem with variable job duration, and several others.

Frank Werner

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