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The volume presents a collaboration between internationally recognized experts on anti-optimization and structural optimization, and summarizes various novel ideas, methodologies and results studied over 20 years. The book vividly demonstrates how the concept of uncertainty should be incorporated in a rigorous manner during the process of designing real-world structures. The necessity of anti-optimization approach is first demonstrated, then the anti-optimization techniques are applied to static, dynamic and buckling problems, thus covering the broadest possible set of applications. Finally, a

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The study of structures and structure generating processes is a common concern of all scientific and technical disciplines. The present volume presents an interdisciplinary investigation of the different methods of analysis and modelling which, while differing considerably in detail, usually have evolutionary adaption or development schemes at their core. The book naturally falls into three parts - a first part summarizing the transdisciplinary fundamentals, a second part discussing in detail case studies from various fields (production engineering, medicine, management, molecular biology, energy engineering, civil engineering, logistics, sociology, physics) and a shorter outlook on the transdisciplinary perspective.

Computer. --- Structural analysis (Engineering). --- Technology. --- Structural analysis (Engineering) --- Civil Engineering --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Structural optimization. --- Decision support systems --- Stochastic analysis. --- Mathematics. --- Analysis, Stochastic --- Optimal structural design --- Optimization, Structural --- Optimization of structural systems --- Optimum design of structures --- Optimum structural design --- Optimum structures --- Structures, Optimum design of --- Engineering. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Computational intelligence. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Complexity. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computational Intelligence. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Mathematical statistics --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Statistical methods --- Decision making --- Mathematical analysis --- Stochastic processes --- Management information systems --- Telematics --- Structural design --- Complex Systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Computational complexity. --- Architectural engineering --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural mechanics --- Structures, Theory of --- Structural engineering

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This paper develops a full-fledged cost-benefit analysis of monetary integration, and applies it to the currency unions actively pursued in Africa. The benefits of monetary union come from a more credible monetary policy, while the costs derive from real shock asymmetries and fiscal disparities. The model is calibrated using African data. Simulations indicate that the proposed EAC, ECOWAS, and SADC monetary unions bring about net benefits to some potential members, but modest net gains and sometimes net losses for others. Strengthening domestic macroeconomic frameworks is shown to provide some of the same improvements as monetary integration, reducing the latter’s relative attractiveness.

Monetary unions --- Monetary policy --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Monetary management --- Currency question --- Money --- Common currencies --- Currency areas --- Currency unions --- Optimum currency areas --- Banks and Banking --- Exports and Imports --- Inflation --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Financial Aspects of Economic Integration --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Monetary Systems --- Standards --- Regimes --- Government and the Monetary System --- Payment Systems --- Empirical Studies of Trade --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- International economics --- Macroeconomics --- Monetary economics --- Banking --- Currencies --- Terms of trade --- Prices --- nternational cooperation --- Banks and banking --- South Africa