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Book review: Marine mammals biology and Conservation. Eds. PGH Evans and Raga J.A. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers

in Journal of Marine Systems (2003), 43

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Book Review: Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth: Lessons for Regional Policies,

in Journal of Regional Science (2003), 43(2), 403-406

Book Reviews : Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA. By Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006

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Boolean Functions: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

Book published by Cambridge University Press (2011)

This monograph provides the first comprehensive presentation of the theoretical, algorithmic and applied aspects of Boolean functions, i.e., {0,1}-valued functions of a finite number of {0,1}-valued ... [more ▼]

This monograph provides the first comprehensive presentation of the theoretical, algorithmic and applied aspects of Boolean functions, i.e., {0,1}-valued functions of a finite number of {0,1}-valued variables. The book focuses on algebraic representations of Boolean functions, especially normal form representations. It presents the fundamental elements of the theory (Boolean equations and satisfiability problems, prime implicants and associated representations, dualization, etc.), an in-depth study of special classes of Boolean functions (quadratic, Horn, shellable, regular, threshold, read-once, etc.), and two fruitful generalizations of the concept of Boolean functions (partially defined and pseudo-Boolean functions). It features a rich bibliography of about one thousand items. Prominent among the disciplines in which Boolean methods play a significant role are propositional logic, combinatorics, graph and hypergraph theory, complexity theory, integer programming, combinatorial optimization, game theory, reliability theory, electrical and computer engineering, artificial intelligence, etc. The book contains applications of Boolean functions in all these areas. [less ▲]

Boolean methods in operations research and related areas

Conference (2011, November)

These are the slides of the "IFORS Distinguished Lecture" that I delivered at the INFORMS Annual meeting in November 2011. The title of the lecture is the title of a monograph co-authored by Peter L ... [more ▼]

These are the slides of the "IFORS Distinguished Lecture" that I delivered at the INFORMS Annual meeting in November 2011. The title of the lecture is the title of a monograph co-authored by Peter L. Hammer and Sergiu Rudeanu, which appeared in 1968. Their pioneering work has stimulated a large amount of research and has been very frequently cited. Over the last year, the late Peter Hammer and myself have published two distant follow-ups to this classical book: a monograph entitled Boolean Functions: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (700 pages, Cambridge University Press, 2011), and a collection of survey papers on Boolean Models and Methods in Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering (780 pages, Cambridge University Press, 2010). The size of these two volumes and of their bibliographic sections are witnesses of the vitality of the field and of its impressive development. Boolean functions are actually among the most fundamental objects investigated in mathematics, and provide the basic building blocks for many models arising in operations research, computer science, artificial intelligence, economics, engineering, cryptography, biology, and other fields of application. In this lecture, I propose a brief overview of some fundamental Boolean models, I discuss applications in corporate governance (modeling of shareholders’ power) and in classification (Logical Analysis of Data), and I mention a few challenging research problems. [less ▲]

A Boolean network approach to developmental engineering

Conference (2011, June 13)

A Boolean network model of the growth plate

Poster (2010, October 10)