Advances in Optimization and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2023, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, during September 1822, 2023.
The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: mathematical programming; global optimization; continuous optimization; discrete and combinatorial optimization; optimal control; game theory and mathematical economics; optimization in economics and finance; and applications.

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Mathematical Programming.- A Randomised Non-Descent Method for Global Optimisation.- Global Optimization.- Optimizing Parallelization Strategies for the Big-means Clustering Algorithm.- Development of Optimal Feedback for Zooplankton Seasonal Diel Vertical Migration.- Continuous Optimization.- Numerical Solution of an Inverse Problem for a General Hyperbolic Heat Equation.- Linear Optimization by Conical Projection.- Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization.- LIP Model in Solving RCPSP at the Flow Type Production.- Optimal Control.- Optimal Control of Sources with Feedback with Optimization of the Placement of Measurement Points along Given Trajectories.- Game Theory and Mathematical Economics.- On Unimodality of Welfare in International Trade Model under Monopolistic Competition.- Mathematical Modeling in Forecasting the Development of the Construction Industry in the Russian Federation.- Position Auctions for Sponsored Search in Marketplaces.- Optimization in Economics and Finance.- Agent-Based Model of Cultural Landscape Evolution in Euclidean Space.- Development of an Agent-Based Optimization Model for the Human Capital Market.- Applications.- Exact Algorithm for Generating H-Cores in Simplified Lattice-based Protein Model.- Graph Density and Uncertainty of Graphical Model Selection Algorithms.- Swarm Intelligence Technique for Capacity Optimization of a Transportation Network.- Improving Background Subtraction Algorithms with Shadow Detection.- Optimal Route for Drone for Monitoring of Crop Yields.- Algorithm for Multi-Criteria Optimization of Robot Parameters for Fruit Harvesting Based on Evolutionary Methods, Taking Into Account the Importance of Criteria.- Application of Recursive Algorithms for Optimization and Approximation of Workspace of Parallel Robots.- Discrete Tomography Problems with Paired Projections and Complexity Characteristics.- Several Edge-Disjoint Spanning Trees with Given Diameter in a Graph with Random Discrete Edge Weights.