This paper presents a problem-independent framework that uni es various mechanisms for solving discrete constrained nonlinear programming (NLP) problems whose functions are not ne...
Abstract. The notion of skeleton plays a major role in shape analysis. Some usually desirable characteristics of a skeleton are: sufficient for the reconstruction of the original o...
Generalizing the concept of a Reeb graph, the Reeb space of a multivariate continuous mapping identifies points of the domain that belong to a common component of the preimage of ...
Multiple-pursuer multiple-evader games raise fundamental and novel problems in control theory and robotics. In this paper, we propose a distributed solution to this problem that si...
A goal of computing and networking systems is to limit administrative requirements for users and operators. A technical systems should be able to configure itself as much as possi...