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CCE
2007
14 years 11 months ago
A systematic approach to plant-wide control based on thermodynamics
In this work, a systematic approach to plant-wide control design is proposed. The method combines ingredients from process networks, thermodynamics and systems theory to derive ro...
Luis T. Antelo, Irene Otero-Muras, Julio R. Banga,...
GECCO
2009
Springer
146views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Analyzing the landscape of a graph based hyper-heuristic for timetabling problems
Hyper-heuristics can be thought of as “heuristics to choose heuristics”. They are concerned with adaptively finding solution methods, rather than directly producing a solutio...
Gabriela Ochoa, Rong Qu, Edmund K. Burke
ALGOSENSORS
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Simple Robots in Polygonal Environments: A Hierarchy
With the current progress in robot technology and related areas, sophisticated moving and sensing capabilities are at hand to design robots capable of solving seemingly complex tas...
Jan Brunner, Matús Mihalák, Subhash ...
IOR
2008
126views more  IOR 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Fast Simulation of Multifactor Portfolio Credit Risk
This paper develops rare event simulation methods for the estimation of portfolio credit risk -- the risk of losses to a portfolio resulting from defaults of assets in the portfol...
Paul Glasserman, Wanmo Kang, Perwez Shahabuddin
ICRA
2002
IEEE
68views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
15 years 4 months ago
Self-Collision Detection and Prevention for Humanoid Robots
We present an efficient approach to self-collision detection suitable for complex articulated robots such as humanoids. Preventing self-collisions is vital for the safe operation ...
James J. Kuffner Jr., Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Ka...