14 Creating accurate, macroscopic scale models of microscopically heterogeneous media is computation15 ally challenging. The difficulty is increased for materials with time-varying microstructures. Common 16 modeling approaches for heterogeneous media include purely continuum-based models and homogeniza17 tion methods. However, these methods tend to blur the inhomogeneities of the material that...

Many recent results on distributed control of multi-agent networks rely a number simplifying assumptions that facilitate the solution regulation problems associated with large-scale networ...

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