We study a single-machine scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times, motivated by applications in manufacturing and service industries - in particular, the calendering stage in rubber flooring production. In this phase, setup times are p...
Background Identifying the right cut-off for continuous biomarkers in clinical trials is important to identify subgroups of patients who are at greater risk of disease or more likely to benefit from a drug. The literature in this area tends to focus...
The initiation of dose optimization has driven a paradigm shift in oncology clinical trials to determine the optimal biological dose (OBD). Early-phase trials with randomized doses can facilitate additional investigation of the identified OBD in targ...
Recent studies have explored finite-time dissipation-minimizing protocols for stochastic thermodynamic systems driven arbitrarily far from equilibrium, when granted full external control to drive the system. However, in both simulation and experiment...
The paper studies generalized differentiability properties of the marginal function of parametric optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. We establish upper estimates for the regular and the limiting subgradien...
In this paper, we investigate solution stability for control problems of partial differential equations with the cost functional not involving the usual quadratic term for the control. We first establish a sufficient optimality condition for the opti...
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How to optimally persuade an agent who has a private type? When elicitation is feasible, this amounts to a fairly standard principal-agent-style mechanism design problem, where the persuader employs a mechanism to first elicit the agent's type and th...
Inverted landing is a challenging feat to perform in aerial robots, especially without external positioning. However, it is routinely performed by biological fliers such as bees, flies, and bats. Our previous observations of landing behaviors in flie...
The impact forces during switching operations of short-stroke actuators may cause bouncing, audible noise and mechanical wear. The application of soft-landing control strategies to these devices aims at minimizing the impact velocities of their movin...
Tomorrow I'll get my Pixel to ditch the iPhone and I am planning to istantly flash Graphene OS. I still am planning tho how to divide my apps into different profiles. For sure I want my banking apps...
A large dam model is an object of study of this paper. The parameters $L^{lower}$ and $L^{upper}$ are its lower and upper levels, $L=L^{upper}-L^{lower}$ is large, and if a current level of water is between these bounds, then the dam is assumed to...
Climate change has a dramatic impact, particularly by concentrating rainfall into a few short periods, interspersed by long dry spells. In this context, the role of dams is crucial. We consider the optimal control of a dam, where the water level must...
and the remaining dead tree matter is an optimal fuel source for future wild fires. Stanford Earth System Science Professor Noah Diffenbaugh stated that
We investigate the condition on transmission radius needed to achieve connectivity in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (briefly, DC-WSN). First, we settle a conjecture of Das et. al. (2012) and prove that the connectivity condition on Random Geom...
Murray-type flux-radius laws, Gilbert-type concave transport costs, and Young-Herring triple-junction angle balances are usually treated as separate theories. This work shows that, within a natural class of quadratic, scale-free ledgers for branched...
In this paper, we address the deployment of base stations (BSs) in a one-dimensional network in which the users are randomly distributed.In order to take into account the users' distribution to optimally place the BSs we optimize the uplink MMSE sum...
A locally repairable code with availability has the property that every code symbol can be recovered from multiple, disjoint subsets of other symbols of small size. In particular, a code symbol is said to have $(r,t)$-availability if it can be recove...
The out-of-equilibrium character of active particles, responsible for accumulation at boundaries in confining domains, determines not-trivial effects when considering escape processes. Non-monotonous behavior of exit times with respect to tumbling ra...
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