Mixed-Line-Rate (MLR) optical networks provide the flexibility for satisfying heterogeneous traffic demands. However, the existence of multiple line rates makes the network planning problem more complicated. In this paper, we aim at minimizing the network cost (the joint cost of transponder, wavelength channel usage and the number of used wavelengths) for provisioning multiple multicast session...

The aim of this paper is to present the main features of an integrated approach of the on-line identification and predictive control of uncertain dynamical systems. A nonparametric statistical procedure is considered for the functional estimation of the unknown process model, imbedded into a neuralbased predictive control procedure: a feedforward neural network with one hidden layer is used to ...

Pedigree. All individuals in a genetic population (such as a herd, family line, or breed) are related to some extent. One pedigree plan mates individuals more closely related than the average of the population; it is termed inbreeding. Long-term inbreeding in a closed herd may increase genetic uniformity, but inbreeding usually reduces performance, especially in fertility and survival. This is ...

The SLAC A-Line, originally developed to transport electron beams to experiments in End Station A at energies up to 25 GeV, is being upgraded to support a revived fixed target program. In this paper we discuss a proposed new configuration that will transport beams at energies up to 50 GeV. Implementation of this configuration will require the addition of several magnets, the replacement of powe...

Assembly line balancing problem (ALBP) is a decision problem arising when designing or redesigning an assembly line and it consists in finding the optimal assignment of tasks among the workstations corresponding to some objectives. This paper deals with the single-model ALBP with the aim of minimizing the cycle time and maximizing the workload smoothness among the workstations. In order to solv...

Off-line signature verification methods have to tackle with a number of high resolution images, therefore it is vital to use efficient image processing algorithms. This paper proposes a heuristic stroke extraction algorithm to create a compact representation of the signature whilst minimizing the loss of semantic information and the computational needs. Some issues of the algorithm are highligh...

We give conditions under which limited-memory quasi-Newton methods with exact line searches will terminate in n steps when minimizing n-dimensional quadratic functions. We show that although all Broyden family methods terminate in n steps in their full-memory versions, only BFGS does so with limited-memory. Additionally, we show that full-memory Broyden family methods with exact line searches t...

In this contribution, we show how to encode in a convenient and compact way information from images with so called functional graphical models. Those models permit to represent in a coherent mathematical framework features such as interest points , simply connected curves such as line and conic segments, connected regions of homogeneous properties, and compound features such as lines and line p...