Author: Mikio Furuta
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: monographs, mathematical, translations, theorem, index
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2007-11-28
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0821820974
ISBN-13: 9780821820971

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem is a remarkable result that allows one to compute the space of solutions of a linear elliptic partial differential operator on a manifold in terms of purely topological data related to the manifold and the symbol of the operator. First proved by Atiyah and Singer in 1963, it marked the beginning of a completely new direction of research in mathematics with relations to differential geometry, partial differential equations, differential topology, K-theory, physics, and other areas. The author’s main goal in this volume is to give a complete proof of the ind

Authors:Dan M. Frangopol, Hitoshi Furuta,
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineer
Keywords: civil, infrastructure, systems, design, analysis, cycle, cost, life
Number of Pages: 323
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0784405719
ISBN-13: 9780784405710

This book comprises most of the papers presented at the First US/Japan Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 7-8, 2000, and several invited contributions, mostly from Europe. The 18 papers cover a wide range of studies on life-cycle cost analysis, design, maintenance and management of civil infrastructure systems. Contributions are from a range of internationally recognized researchers and practicing structural engineers from the United States, Japan, and Europe. Topics include: conceptual design of structural systems;

Authors:Katsuhisa Furuta, Jun Ishikawa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: direction, future, japanese, research, development, situation, current, landmine, personnel, detection, humanitarian, demining, anti
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 2009-03-24
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 1848823452
ISBN-13: 9781848823457

There are more than 70 countries in the world that suffer from the presence of landmines. Annually, between 15,000 and 20,000 people are killed or injured by these mines so there is a pressing need for advances in technology to help to remove them. Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining reports on state-of-the-art technologies developed during a Japanese National Research Project which ran from 2002–2007. The conventional, and often reliable, method of landmine detection is to use a metal detector to pick up small amounts of metal within the mine. Unfortunately, minefie

Authors:F. Ceragioli, A. Dontchev, H. Furuta, L. Pandolfi,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ifip, italy, turin, advances, information, technology, communication, july, conference, modeling, control, optimization, proceedings, tc7, systems
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-06-13
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0387338810
ISBN-13: 9780387338811

The papers presented in this volume mostly concern stochastic and distributed systems, their control/optimization, and inverse problems. The present edition of the conference is dedicated to Camillo Possio, killed by a bomb during the last air raid over Torino, in the sixtieth anniversary of his death. The special session "On the Possio Equation and its Special Role in Aeroelasticity" was devoted to his achievements. The special session "Shape Analysis and Optimization" commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Pompeiu thesis. Numerous fields of interest for the seventh Technical Committee

Authors:F. Ceragioli, A. Dontchev, H. Furuta, K. Marti, L. Pan
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ifip, advances, italy, information, technology, communication, turin, conference, optimization, modeling, proceedings, tc7, system, july
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2006-03-27
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0387327746
ISBN-13: 9780387327747

This book presents selected proceedings from the 22nd biennial IFIP conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Turin, Italy in July of 2005. This edition of the conference is dedicated to the achievements of Camillo Possio, who was killed sixty years ago during the last air raid over Turin. System Modeling and Optimization covers optimization, oiptimization with PDE constraints, structural systems optimization, algorithms for linear and nonlinear programming, stochastic optimization, control and game theory, combinatorial and discrete optimization, identification and inverse pr