This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts and principles of microeconomics. It introduces students to the models, assumptions, and empirical applications of modern microeconomics, as well as to the necessary mathematical tools. It covers topics such as economic behavior, consumer theory, theory of the firm, partial and general equilibrium theory, industrial organization, bargaining theory, and Pareto optimality. Students learn not only about economic outcomes at a given point of equilibrium, but also about dynamic economics, which includes both equilibrium and disequilibrium. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in economics and related fields who are interested in the basic theories and applications of microeconomics.
Enhance your understanding of Microeconomics with this comprehensive companion workbook to the textbook "Microeconomics: Static and Dynamic Analysis." Immerse yourself in a wide range of exercises covering fundamental microeconomic concepts, intricate mathematical problems, and captivating case study scenarios. Each chapter provides meticulously crafted solutions and answers, enabling you to reinforce your knowledge and sharpen your analytical skills. Additionally, the workbook offers downloadable electronic supplementary materials including Excel and MATLAB files, empowering you to derive solutions and delve deeper into the subject matter. Designed for both instructors and students, this workbook is an invaluable resource for mastering the analytical and mathematical tools essential to the field of economics.
This volume investigates the ways emerging technologies in the fields of robotics and bio-robotics are influencing society. It necessarily considers both philosophical and technological study of robots, including what it means for robots to exist as good and moral entities, and how they benefit humans and enhance their quality of life. Contributors address artificial intelligence and social functions as well as technical matters. Chapters are wide-ranging, and consider robots in science fiction; the need for designers to create moral robots; specific technology; and the development of biological robots. Also addressed are robotic technologies already enhancing human bodies, such as exoskeletons that allow paraplegics to walk. The contributors foresee robots becoming involved not only in mundane domestic tasks such as washing dishes, but also in providing health care to the disabled and companionship to the elderly. This volume offers exciting philosophical reflections that unveil new connections between robotics and praxiology and their practical applications.
Genetic programming (GP) is a popular heuristic methodology of program synthesis with origins in evolutionary computation. In this generate-and-test approach, candidate programs are iteratively produced and evaluated. The latter involves running programs on tests, where they exhibit complex behaviors reflected in changes of variables, registers, or memory. That behavior not only ultimately determines program output, but may also reveal its `hidden qualities' and important characteristics of the considered synthesis problem. However, the conventional GP is oblivious to most of that information and usually cares only about the number of tests passed by a program. This `evaluation bottleneck' leaves search algorithm underinformed about the actual and potential qualities of candidate programs. This book proposes behavioral program synthesis, a conceptual framework that opens GP to detailed information on program behavior in order to make program synthesis more efficient. Several existing and novel mechanisms subscribing to that perspective to varying extent are presented and discussed, including implicit fitness sharing, semantic GP, co-solvability, trace convergence analysis, pattern-guided program synthesis, and behavioral archives of subprograms. The framework involves several concepts that are new to GP, including execution record, combined trace, and search driver, a generalization of objective function. Empirical evidence gathered in several presented experiments clearly demonstrates the usefulness of behavioral approach. The book contains also an extensive discussion of implications of the behavioral perspective for program synthesis and beyond.
Enhance your understanding of Microeconomics with this comprehensive companion workbook to the textbook "Microeconomics: Static and Dynamic Analysis." Immerse yourself in a wide range of exercises covering fundamental microeconomic concepts, intricate mathematical problems, and captivating case study scenarios. Each chapter provides meticulously crafted solutions and answers, enabling you to reinforce your knowledge and sharpen your analytical skills. Additionally, the workbook offers downloadable electronic supplementary materials including Excel and MATLAB files, empowering you to derive solutions and delve deeper into the subject matter. Designed for both instructors and students, this workbook is an invaluable resource for mastering the analytical and mathematical tools essential to the field of economics.
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