We present a technique for approximate robust dynamic programming that is suitable for linearly constrained polytopic systems with piecewise affine cost functions. The approximation method uses polyhedral representations of the cost-to-go function and feasible set, and can considerably reduce the computational burden compared to recently proposed methods for exact robust dynamic programming [Be...

We propose and analyze a perturbed version of the classical Josephy-Newton method for solving generalized equations. This perturbed framework is convenient to treat in a unified way standard sequential quadratic programming, its stabilzed version, sequential quadratically constrained quadratic programming, and linearly constrained Lagrangian methods. For the linearly constrained Lagrangian meth...

Abstractions are crucial in order to manage complex systems. In pervasive computing, though, common programming abstractions tend to be too expensive for the employed resource-constrained devices. In recent years, the wireless sensor network community has proposed several solutions to this problem. However, little has been done to also support debugging on the level of the abstraction. Instead,...

Quality of service (QoS) has become one of the most important aspects of modern multimedia applications. Nevertheless, programming of QoS-aware, adaptive applications is cumbersome and error-prone. Several QoS-oriented programming methods and tools have been presented, relying on special languages or complex frameworks. Instead, we suggest to slightly extend an existing general-purpose programm...

This paper extends the proposed method by Jahanshahloo et al. (2004) (a method for generating all the efficient solutions of a 0–1 multi-objective linear programming problem, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research). This paper considers the recession direction for a multi-objective integer linear programming (MOILP) problem and presents necessary and sufficient conditions to have unbounde...

The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective methodology for solving constrained matrix games with payoffs of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (TrFNs), which are a type of two-person non-cooperative games with payoffs expressed by TrFNs and players’ strategies being constrained. In this methodology, it is proven that any Alfa-constrained matrix game has an interval-type value and hereby any co...

this paper discusses the problem of allocation of constrained renewable resource to splittable activities of a single project. if the activities of stochastic projects can be split, these projects may be completed in shorter time when the available resource is constrained. it is assumed that the resource amount required to accom-plish each activity is a discrete quantity and deterministic. the ...

We propose and analyze a perturbed version of the classical Josephy-Newton method for solving generalized equations, and of the sequential quadratic programming method for optimization problems. This perturbed framework is convenient to treat in a unified way standard sequential quadratic programming, its stabilzed version [9, 2], sequential quadratically constrained quadratic programming [1, 4...