Optimal Controller for the Almost Exact Guidance of a Singularly Perturbed System to Zero

The method of penalty functions is used to construct an optimal controller that guides a singularly perturbed system (vehicle) into a small neighborhood of a specified (target) position. It is proved that the convergence of the path of the vehicle to the exact-guidance path as the penalty coefficient increases without bound is uniform with respect to a singular parameter.     

Chapter 1 Introduction: Extensions and new developments in DEA

The extensions, new developments and new interpretations for DEA covered in this paper include: (1) new measures of efficiency, (2) new models and (3) new ways of implementing established models with new results and interpretations presented that include treatments of congestion, returns-to-scale and mix and technical inefficiencies and measures of efficiency that can be used to reflect all pertinent properties. Previously used models, such as those used to identify allocative inefficiencies, are extended by means of assurance region approaches which are less demanding in their information requirements and underlying assumptions. New opportunities for research are identified in each section of this chapter. Sources of further developments and possible sources for further help are also suggested with references supplied to other papers that appear in this volume and which are summarily described in this introductory chapter.     

Stellare Abänderungen und Schälbarkeit von Komplexen und Polytopen

Brugesser and Mani proved that the boundary-complex of a convex polytope can be shelled. This result lead to McMullen's proof of the Upper-bound-conjecture. We show that the shellability of complexes has a close connection to the theory of stellar operations. Several results on special shelling procedures and on non-shellable complexes are obtained.     

On the Mechanism for Nonlinear Representations of the Lorentz Group Arising in Quantum Field Theory

A mechanism is identified that leads to the correct law for the relativistic Wigner function transformation with respect to the Lorentz group as long as the corresponding relativistic wave functions have special transformation properties.     

Descendants constructed from matter field in Landau-Ginzburg theories coupled to topological gravity

It is argued that gravitational descendants in the theory of topological gravity coupled to topological Landau-Ginzburg theory (not necessarily conformal) can be constructed from matter fields alone (without metric fields and ghosts). In this sense topological gravity is induced. We discuss the mechanism of this effect (that turns out to be connected with K. Saito's higher residue pairing: Kⁱ(_i(₁),₂)=K⁰(₁,₂)), and demonstrate how it works in a simplest nontrivial example: correlator on a sphere with four marked points. We also discuss some results on k-point correlators on a sphere. From the idea of induced topological gravity it follows that the theory of pure topological gravity (without topological matter) is equivalent to the trivial Landau-Ginzburg theory (with quadratic superpotential).Published in Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 307–316, May, 1993.     

Fehlerabschätzungen für das Galerkinverfahren zur Lösung von Evolutionsgleichungen

Error estimates are proved for the Galerkin procedure applied to initial value problems of parabolic type in Hilbert space without regularity requirements of the initial element. They are based on approximation assumptions for the Ritz operator of the associated elliptic problem. Approximation properties of this type are also shown to be necessary for the obtained error bounds.     

Applying a fuzzy relation to describe influence of flux behaviour in a printed coil

Summary Being a subject of expectedly fuzzy character, an attempt is made to apply fuzzy functions, more precisely fuzzy relations to investigate the problem of flux distortion in a printed coil.

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Zusammenfassung Da die Vorgänge in einer gedruckten Spule sich aus einer Vielzahl schwerer erfaßbarer Einzeleinflüsse zusammensetzen, die insbesondere den Magnetfluß verzerren, lag es nahe, den Versuch zu machen, die Fuzzy Functions (die logische Algebra, gemäß [1]) darauf anzuwenden. Die Fuzzy Functions sind gedacht für das Beschreiben von Vorgängen, oder Ereignissen, die im Ansatz ein breit gefächertes (fuzzy) Verhalten, ohne scharfe Grenzen aufweisen; siehe Fig. 4.Dieser gefächerten logischen Funktion entspricht eine reguläre mathematische Kurvenschar, die meßtechnisch nachgewiesen werden muß.Im vorliegenden Falle ergab sich eine Korrekturfunktion (5), die es gestattet, die Induktivität gedruckter Spulen, in einem weiten Bereich von Abmessungen und Windungen, mit einer Genauigkeit von –2% bis +5% zu bestimmen.

     

Model reduction techniques for sampled-data systems

An approximately balanced realization of linear finite-dimensional sampled-data systems is proposed. The theoretical support of the approximately balancing algorithm is represented by a result on the asymptotic expansions with respect to the sampling step of the sampled controllability and observability graminas. Reduced order models obtained as singular perturbational approximations of approximately balanced realizations of sampled-data systems are shown to be acceptable solutions to the sampled-data system model reduction problem in the sense that, enjoying some asymptotic properties, they come close to the exact solutions as the sampling step decreases. An example illustrates the results.     

0-1-sequences of Toeplitz type

Summary 0-1-sequences are constructed by successive insertion of a periodic sequence of symbols 0, 1 and hole into the holes of the sequence already constructed. Assuming that finally all holes are filled with symbols 0, 1, an almost periodic point in shift space results. Under certain conditions, it is even strictly ergodic. It is proved that the attached invariant measure has pure point spectrum, and a rather explicit expression for eigenvectors is obtained.     

Nonexistence of new order-9 projective plane with order-13 collineation

The order-9 Desarguesian projective plane and the known self-dual non-Desarguesian plane (Carmichael or Hughes plane) each have a 13-collineation displacing all points and all lines. We show that no previously undiscovered 9-plane has this property.     

The octahedron equation implies the cube equation: An elementary proof

It has been proved by L. Sweet that the octahedron functional equation implies the cube functional equation in all dimensionsn1. In this note we give an elementary proof of this theorem.     

A Kantorovich-type convergence analysis for the Gauss-Newton-Method

Summary We present a (semilocal) Kantorovich-type convergence analysis for the Gauss-Newton-Method which reduces to the wellknown Newton-Kantorovich-Theorem for the Newton-Method in a natural way. Additionnally a classification of the nonlinear regression problem into adequate and not-adequate models is obtained.     

Applications of the zero–one law to problems connected with Cauchy's functional equation

Summary Marek Kuczma's book, entitled An Introduction To The Theory Of Functional Equations And Inequalities, mentions a certain setV ₀ in several places and presents references as to where this set is discussed in the literature. The main result of this paper is a proof of the fact that the setA _M (V ₀)={xV ₀ f(x)>M} is saturated non-measurable for each additive discontinuous functionf and each real numberM. Other results aboutV ₀ are also presented. Connections between measure and category are stressed. The main tool in our proofs is a certain so-called zero–one law and its topological analogue. In addition it is shown that the zero–one law is equivalent to Smital's lemma.     

A note on generating generalized two-dimensional plate and shell theories

Summary Ordinary two dimensional linear shell theory may be formulated by using six differential equations for stress resultants and couples and for middle surface force and moment load intensities, in conjunction with the principle of virtual work, for the derivation of strain displacement relations. The present paper deals with a more general formulation, involving additional two-dimensional equilibrium equations, as a consequence of three-dimensional equations for force and moment stresses, in conjunction with a stipulation of surface force and moment load intensities for two face surfaces in place of the one middle surface. The main intent of the analysis is an illumination of the concept of a mechanical Cosserat-surface theory, in comparison with ordinary two-dimensional shell theory.

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Zusammenfassung Die übliche zweidimensionale Schalentheorie kann formuliert werden, indem man sechs Differentialgleichungen für Spannungsresultierende, Momente, Mittel flächenkraft und Momentlastintensität zusammen mit dem Prinzip der virtuellen Verschiebungen dazu benutzt, um ein System von Dehnungs-Verschiebungsgleichungen abzuleiten. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit einer verallgemeinerten Formulierung, mit zusätzlichen zweidimensionalen Gleichgewichtsbedingungen, die von einer dreidimensionalen Theorie für Kraft- und Momentenspannungen abgeleitet werden, zusammen mit einer Vorschrift über zwei Systeme von Ober flächenkräften und Momentlastintensitäten anstelle des einen Mittelfllächenlastsystems. Der Hauptzweck der Analyse ist die Beleuchtung des Begriffs der mechanischen Cosserat-Flächentheorie im Vergleich zur üblichen zweidimensionalen linearen Schalentheorie.

     

A Framework for Evaluating Knowledge-Based Interestingness of Association Rules

In Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)/Data Mining literature, interestingness measures are used to rank rules according to the interest a particular rule is expected to evoke. In this paper, we introduce an aspect of subjective interestingness called item-relatedness. Relatedness is a consequence of relationships that exist between items in a domain. Association rules containing unrelated or weakly related items are interesting since the co-occurrence of such items is unexpected. Item-Relatedness helps in ranking association rules on the basis of one kind of subjective unexpectedness. We identify three types of item-relatedness – captured in the structure of a fuzzy taxonomy (an extension of the classical concept hierarchy tree). An item-relatedness measure for describing relatedness between two items is developed by combining these three types. Efficacy of this measure is illustrated with the help of a sample taxonomy. We discuss three mechanisms for extending this measure from a two-item set to an association rule consisting of a set of more than two items. These mechanisms utilize the relatedness of item-pairs and other aspects of an association rule, namely its structure, distribution of items and item-pairs. We compare our approach with another method from recent literature.     

Charakterisierung der affinen Geometrien durch ein kategorientheoretisches Axiomsystem

Let K be a field and let K_n denote an n-dimensional affine space over K, where n is a natural number. LetG(K) be the category with the objects K_n (for all n) and the morphisms the affine maps. We callG(K) the affine geometry over K. We give a system of axioms all formulated only with categorical notions like direct product, direct sum, generator etc. We shall prove, that for each categoryC satisfying these axioms there is exactly one field K(C) (up to an isomorphism) such that there is an isomorphism of categoriesG(K(C))C.     

General procedures leading to correlated equilibria

Hart and Mas-Colell [2000] show that if all players play regret-matching strategies, i.e., they play with probabilities proportional to the regrets, then the empirical distribution of play converges to the set of correlated equilibria, and the regrets of every player converge to zero. Here we show that if only one player, say player i, plays with these probabilities, while the other players are not too sophisticated, then the result that player is regrets converge to zero continues to hold. The condition of not too sophisticated essentially says that the effect of one change of action of player i on the future actions of the other players decreases to zero as the horizon goes to infinity. Furthermore, we generalize all these results to a whole class of regret-based strategies introduced in Hart and Mas-Colell [2001]. In particular, these simplify the conditional smooth fictitious play of Fudenberg and Levine [1999].Received: May 2004This is a revision of the authors M.Sc. thesis, May 2000.The author thanks Professor Sergiu Hart for his help and guidance, and the Associate Editor and an anonymous referee for their comments. I am grateful to my parents and wife for everything.     

On affine scaling algorithms for nonconvex quadratic programming

We investigate the use of interior algorithms, especially the affine-scaling algorithm, to solve nonconvex — indefinite or negative definite — quadratic programming (QP) problems. Although the nonconvex QP with a polytope constraint is a hard problem, we show that the problem with an ellipsoidal constraint is easy. When the hard QP is solved by successively solving the easy QP, the sequence of points monotonically converge to a feasible point satisfying both the first and the second order optimality conditions.Research supported in part by NSF Grant DDM-8922636 and the College Summer Grant, College of Business Administration, The University of Iowa.     

Properties of Solutions to Second Order Evolution Control Systems. II

We continue the research of the first part of the article. We mainly study codensity for the set of admissible trajectory-control pairs of a system with nonconvex constraints in the set of admissible trajectory-control pairs of the system with convexified constraints. We state necessary and sufficient conditions for the set of admissible trajectory-control pairs of a system with nonconvex constraints to be closed in the corresponding function spaces. Using an example of a control hyperbolic system, we give an interpretation of the abstract results obtained. As application we consider the minimization problem for an integral functional on solutions of a control system.     

Regularity,partial regularity,partial information process,for a filtered statistical model

Summary We define partial regularity for a filtered statistical (semi-parametric) model indexed by ^d , as differentiability in a suitable sense of the partial likelihoods associated with a basic processX. Partial regularity turns out to be equivalent to some sort of differentiability in of the characteristics ofX. We also prove that regularity of the model implies partial regularity, and we define a partial information process, which is smaller than the complete information process. We apply these results to obtain a generalization of Cramer-Rao inequality, and to prove that partial likelihood processes are optimal among all quasi-likelihood processes which are stochastic integrals with respect to the basic processX.