Optimization and Dynamics with Their Applications

Part I. Operations Research

1. Developments on the Convergence of Some Iterative Methods
Ioannis K. Argyros, Á. Alberto Magreñán, Juan Antonio Sicilia

2. The Non-symmetric L-Nash Bargaining Solution
Ferenc Forgó

3. Analyzing the Impact of Process Improvement on Lot Sizes in JIT Environment When Capacity Utilization Follows Beta Distribution
József Vörös, Gábor Rappai, Zsuzsanna Hauck

4. Exploring Efficient Reward Strategies to Encourage Large-Scale Cooperation Among Boundedly Rational Players with the Risk and Impact of the Public Good
Yi Luo

Part II. Dynamics

5. Periodicity Induced by Production Constraints in Cournot Duopoly Models with Unimodal Reaction Curves
Gian-Italo Bischi, Laura Gardini, Iryna Sushko

6. An Adaptive Learning Model for Competing Firms in an Industry
Haiyan Qiao

7. The Coordination and Dynamic Analysis of Industrial Clusters: A Multi-agent Simulation Study
Jijun Zhao

8. Approximation of LPV-Systems with Constant-Parametric Switching Systems
Sandor Molnar, Mark Molnar

9. Love Affairs Dynamics with One Delay in Losing Memory or Gaining Affection
Akio Matsumoto

Part III. Applications

10. Optimizing Baseball and Softball Bats
A. Terry Bahill

11. Reverse Logistic Network Design for End-of-Life Wind Turbines
Suna Cinar, Mehmet Bayram Yildirim

12. Maintenance Outsourcing Contracts Based on Bargaining Theory
Maryam Hamidi, Haitao Liao

13. Agricultural Production Planning in a Fuzzy Environment
M. R. Salazar, R. E. Fitz, S. F. Pérez

14. Optimal Replacement Decisions with Mound-Shaped Failure Rates
Qiuze Yu, Huairui Guo, Miklos Szidarovszky

15. A System Dynamics Approach to Simulate the Restoration Plans for Urmia Lake, Iran
Mahdi Zarghami, Mohammad AmirRahmani

16. A Decision Support System for Managing Water Resources in Real-Time Under Uncertainty
Emery A. Coppola, Suna Cinar

Keywords: Economics, Game Theory, Management, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Regional/Spatial Science, Behavioral/Experimental Economics