In this paper we give sufficient conditions for a bang-bang regular extremal to be a strong local optimum for a control problem in the Mayer form; strong means that we consider the...
Andrei A. Agrachev, Gianna Stefani, PierLuigi Zezz...
This paper outlines our experiences with making architectural tradeoffs between performance, availability, security, and usability, in light of stringent cost and time-to-market c...
T. C. Nicholas Graham, Rick Kazman, Chris Walmsley
An important part of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation process is the decision, which modules are implemented and in which order. We posit that the deci...
Mobile devices are increasingly relied on but are used in contexts that put them at risk of physical damage, loss or theft. We consider a fault-tolerance approach that exploits sp...
We introduce an alternative to the smoothing technique approach for constrained optimization. As it turns out for any given smoothing function there exists a modification with part...