A global history of early modern violence / Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter H. Wilson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910477301003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [s.l.] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020
• ISBN: 9781526140616; 1526140616
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.3209
• Soggetti: Technology & Engineering / Agriculture; Technology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures, maps, and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he' -- 2 Both benevolent and brutal -- 3 Village rebellion and social violence in early nineteenth-century Vietnam -- 4 Towards a political economy of conquest -- 5 Ravages and depredations -- Part II: Restraint and excess -- 6 Breaking the Pax Hispanica -- 7 Restraining/encouraging violence -- 8 Restraining violence on the seas -- 9 'The wrath of God' -- Part III: Differentiation and identification -- 10 'Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre' -- 11 Atlantic slave systems and violence -- 12 A 'theatre of bloody carnage' -- 13 Conquer, extract, and perhaps govern -- Select bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: By expanding the geographical scope of the history of violence and war, this volume challenges both Western and state-centric narratives of the decline of violence and its relationship to modernity. It highlights instead similarities across early modernity in terms of representations, legitimations, applications of, and motivations for violence. It seeks to integrate methodologies of the study of violence into the history of war, thereby extending the historical significance of both fields of research. Thirteen case studies outline the myriad ways in which large-scale violence was understood and used by states and non-state actors throughout the early modern period across Africa, Asia, the Americas, ; the Atlantic, and Europe, demonstrating that it was far more complex than would be suggested by simple narratives of conquest and resistance. Moreover, key features of imperial violence apply equally to large-scale violence within societies. As the authors argue, violence was a continuum, ranging from small-scale, local actions to full-blown war. The latter was privileged legally and increasingly associated with states during early modernity, but its legitimacy was frequently contested and many of its violent forms, such as raiding and destruction of buildings and crops, could be found in activities not officially classed as war.

Optimization, Control, and Applications in the Information Age : In Honor of Panos M. Pardalos’s 60th Birthday / / edited by Athanasios Migdalas, Athanasia Karakitsiou

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299786803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-18567-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Collana: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, , 2194-1017 ; ; 130
• Disciplina: 519.77
• Soggetti: Mathematical optimization; Calculus of variations; Operations research; Mathematical models; Probabilities; Calculus of Variations and Optimization; Operations Research and Decision Theory; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Probability Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Panos M. Pardalos: A Brief Biography (R. Bakker) -- Modular ; Lipschitzian and Contractive Maps (V. Chistyakov) -- A Taxonomy for the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (D. Cinar, Y. Topcu, J. Oliveira) -- Sensitivity analysis of welfare, equity, and acceptability level of transport policies (R. Connors, M. Patriksson, C. Rydergren, A. Sumalee, D. Watling) -- Calibration in survey sampling as an optimization problem (G. Davies, J. Gillard, A. Zhigljavsky) -- On the Sensitivity of Least Squares Data Fitting by Nonnegative Second Divided Differences (I. Demetriou) -- Modeling and solving vehicle routing problems with many available vehicle types (S. Barman, P. Lindroth, A. Strömberg) -- A Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling Alternative Tasks subject to Technical Failure (D. Fontes, J. Gonçalves) -- Discrete competitive facility location: Modeling and optimization approaches (A. Karakitsiou) -- On Nash Equilibria in Stochastic Positional Games with Average Payoffs (D. Lozovanu, S. Pickl) -- Adaptive Tuning of All Parameters in a Multi-Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. An Application to the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem (Y. Marinakis, M. Marinaki, A. Migdalas) -- Eigendecomposition of the Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization Model (F. Mayambala, Elina Rönnberg, T. Larsson) -- Three aspects of the research impact by a scientist: measurement methods and an empirical evaluation (B. Mirkin, M. Orlov) -- SVM Classification of Uncertain Data Using Robust Multi-Kernel Methods (R. Pant, T. Trafalis) -- Multi-objective Optimization and Multi-attribute Decision Making for a Novel Batch Scheduling Problem Based on Mould Capabilities (J. Pei, A. Migdalas, W. Fan,X. Liu) -- A Time-Indexed Generalized Vehicle Routing Model and Stabilized Column Generation for Military Aircraft Mission Planning (N. Quttineh, T. Larsson, J. Van den Bergh, J. Beliën) -- On Deterministic Diagonal Methods for Solving Global Optimization Problems with Lipschitz Gradients (Y.Sergeyev, D. Kvasov) -- Optimization of Design Parameters for Active Control of Smart Piezoelectric Structures (G. Stavroulakis, G. Foutsitzi, C. Gogos) -- Stable EEG Features (V. Stefanidis, G. Anogiannakis, A. Evangelou and M. Poulos) -- Deriving Pandemic Disease Mitigation Strategies by Mining Social Contact Networks(M. Ventresca, A. Szatan, B. Say, D. Aleman) -- On an Asymptotic Property of a Simplicial Statistical Model of Global Optimization (A. Žilinskas, G. Gimbutienė) -- Advanced Statistical Tools for Modelling of Composition and Processing Parameters for Alloy Development(G. Zrazhevsky, A. Golodnikov, S.Uryasev, A. Zrazhevsky).
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent developments in theory, algorithms, and applications in optimization and control are discussed in this proceedings, based on selected talks from the ‘Optimization, Control, and Applications in the Information Age’ conference, organized in honor of Panos Pardalos’s 60th birthday. This volume contains numerous applications to optimal decision making in energy production and fuel management, data mining, logistics, supply chain management, market network analysis, risk analysis, and community network analysis. In addition, a short biography is included describing Dr. Pardalos’s path from a shepherd village on the high mountains of Thessaly to academic success. Due to the wide range of topics such as global optimization, combinatorial optimization, game theory, stochastics and programming contained in this publication, scientists, researchers, and students in optimization, operations research, analytics, mathematics and computer science will be interested in this volume.