Abstract. In this paper, we study the problem of controlling the expected exit time from a region for a class of stochastic hybrid systems. That is, we find the least costly feedb...
A triangulation of a planar point set S is a maximal plane straight-line graph with vertex set S. In the minimum weight triangulation (MWT) problem, we are looking for a triangula...
We introduce the Concave-Convex procedure (CCCP) which constructs discrete time iterative dynamical systems which are guaranteed to monotonically decrease global optimization/ener...
This research concerns fundamental performance limitations in control of discrete time nonlinear systems. The fundamental limitations are expressed in terms of the average cost of ...
VLSI placement tools usually work in two steps: First, the cells that have to be placed are roughly spread out over the chip area ignoring disjointness (global placement). Then, i...