This paper studies a position feedback control strategy for controlling a higher order drifting oscillator which could be used in modelling vibro-impact drilling. Special attention is given to two control issues, eliminating bistability and suppressing chaos, which may cause inefficient and unstable drilling. Numerical continuation methods implemented via the continuation platform COCO are adop...

I study the optimal choice of investment projects in a continuous time moral hazard model with multitasking. While in the first best, projects are invariably chosen by the net present value (NPV) criterion, moral hazard introduces a cutoff for project selection which depends on both a project’s NPV as well as its signal to noise ratio (SN). The cutoff shifts dynamically depending on the past hi...

A CPS-like Transformation of Continuation Marks Kimball R. GermaneDepartment of Computer Science, BYUMaster of Science Continuation marks are a programming language feature which generalize stackinspection. Despite its usefulness, this feature has not been adopted by languages which relyon stack inspection, e.g., for dynamic security checks. One reason for this neglect may be<lb...