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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Announcing the recent publication by SIAM of:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Analytic Perturbation Theory and Its Applications
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Konstantin E. Avrachenkov, Jerzy A. Filar, and Phil G. Howlett
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Mathematical models are often used to describe complex phenomena such as climate change dynamics, stock market fluctuations, and the Internet. These models typically depend on estimated values of key parameters that determine system behavior. Hence it is important
to know what happens when these values are changed. The study of single-parameter deviations provides a natural starting point for this analysis in many special settings in the sciences, engineering, and economics. The difference between the actual and nominal
values of the perturbation parameter is small but unknown, and it is important to understand the asymptotic behavior of the system as the perturbation tends to zero. This is particularly true in applications with an apparent discontinuity in the limiting
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<i>Analytic Perturbation Theory and Its Applications</i> includes a comprehensive treatment of analytic perturbations of matrices, linear operators, and polynomial systems, particularly the singular perturbation of inverses and generalized inverses. It also
offers original applications in Markov chains, Markov decision processes, optimization, and applications to Google PageRank™ and the Hamiltonian cycle problem as well as input retrieval in linear control systems and a problem section in every chapter to aid
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This text is appropriate for mathematicians and engineers interested in systems and control. It is also suitable for advanced undergraduate, first-year graduate, and advanced, one-semester, graduate classes covering perturbation theory in various mathematical
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<b>Konstantin Avrachenkov </b>is Director of Research, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France. His main research interests are Markov processes, singular perturbations, queueing theory, mathematical programming, game theory, and communication networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Jerzy Filar</b> is Director of Flinders Mathematical Sciences Laboratory, Flinders University, Australia, and is a Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society. His research interests span both theoretical and applied topics in the fields of operations
research, optimization, game theory, applied probability, and environmental modeling.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Phil Howlett </b>is Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of South Australia. He is a member of the Scheduling and Control Group and a former Chair of ANZIAM. His main research interests include energy-efficient driving strategies
for trains, management of water supply systems, rainfall modeling, and singular perturbations of linear operators.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Contents<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Motivation; Part I: Finite Dimensional Perturbations; Chapter 2: Inversion of Analytically Perturbed Matrices; Chapter 3: Perturbation of Null Spaces, Eigenvectors, and Generalized Inverses; Chapter 4: Polynomial Perturbation of
Algebraic Nonlinear Systems; Part II: Applications to Optimization and Markov Process; Chapter 5: Applications to Optimization; Chapter 6: Applications to Markov Chains; Chapter 7: Applications to Markov Decision Processes; Part III: Infinite Dimensional Perturbations;
Chapter 8: Analytic Perturbation of Linear Operators; Chapter 9: Background on Hilbert Spaces and Fourier Analysis; Bibliography; Index<o:p></o:p></p>
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2013 / xii + 372 pages / Hardcover / 978-1-611973-13-6<o:p></o:p></p>
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List Price $89.00 / SIAM Member Price $62.30 / <b>Order Code OT135<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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