Article history: Received: 19.06.2014. Received in revised form: 06.11.2014. Accepted: 11.11.2014. This paper addresses the robust model predictive control (MPC) for a class of time delay descriptor systems with linear fractional uncertainty and input constrains. The systems are transferred to the piecewise continuous descriptor systems and a piecewise constant control sequence is calculated by...

A large body of empirical work in labor and public economics analyzes the behavioral response of earnings to taxes and transfers using the standard static model where agents choose to supply hours of work until the marginal disutility of work equals marginal utility of disposable (net-of-tax) income. This model, which from now on we call the standard model, predicts that, if individual preferen...

In this work we present an algorithm for the solution of multiparametric linear and quadratic programming problems.With linear constraints and linear or convex quadratic objective functions, the optimal solution of these optimization problems is given by a conditional piecewise linear function of the varying parameters. This function results from first-order estimations of the analytical nonlin...

Concave-Convex Procedure (CCCP) has been widely used to solve nonconvex d.c.(difference of convex function) programs occur in learning problems, such as sparse support vector machine (SVM), transductive SVM, sparse principal componenent analysis (PCA), etc. Although the global convergence behavior of CCCP has been well studied, the convergence rate of CCCP is still an open problem. Most of d.c....