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This book offers a broad and detailed view of today's fossil fuel energy economy and of alternatives based on renewable energy, hydrogen and improving efficiency. It explains and develops the concept of bio mimicry in pursuit of environmental sustainability.

The Handbook of Simulation Optimization presents an overview of the state of the art of simulation optimization, providing a survey of the most well-established approaches for optimizing stochastic simulation models and a sampling of recent research advances in theory and methodology. Leading contributors cover such topics as discrete optimization via simulation, ranking and selection, efficient simulation budget allocation, random search methods, response surface methodology, stochastic gradient estimation, stochastic approximation, sample average approximation, stochastic constraints, variance reduction techniques, model-based stochastic search methods and Markov decision processes. This single volume should serve as a reference for those already in the field and as a means for those new to the field for understanding and applying the main approaches. The intended audience includes researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the business/engineering fields of operations research, management science, operations management and stochastic control, as well as in economics/finance and computer science.

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Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Introduction to the Series -- Editor's Biography -- Contributors -- Group Photos -- Preface -- The State of Macro, the Financial Crisis, and New Currents -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Volume 2A -- Section 1: The Facts of Economic Growth and Economic Fluctuation -- Chapter 1: The Facts of Economic Growth -- Abstract -- 1 Growth at the Frontier -- 2 Sources of Frontier Growth -- 3 Frontier Growth: Beyond GDP -- 4 The Spread of Economic Growth -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 2: Macroeconomic Shocks and Their Propagation -- Abstract