B Abstract. The present paper is an introductory and survey paper of the treatment of realistically modelled optimal control problems from applications in the aerospace eld. Especially those problems are considered which include diierent types of constraints. In the tutorial part of the paper, recipes are given for the treatment of optimal control problems for which, among other constraints, co...

The present paper is an introductory and survey paper of the treatment of realistically modelled optimal control problems from applications in the aerospace eld. Especially those problems are considered which include diierent types of constraints. In the tutorial part of the paper, recipes are given for the treatment of optimal control problems for which, among other constraints, control and/or...

The talent scheduling problem is a simplified version of the real-world film shooting problem, which aims to determine a shooting sequence so as to minimize the total cost of the actors involved. In this article, we first formulate the problem as an integer linear programming model. Next, we devise a branch-and-bound algorithm to solve the problem. The branch-and-bound algorithm is enhanced by ...

Techniques for controlling California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi) include trapping, shooting, acute toxicants, anticoagulants, and fumigants. These techniques are described and compared and the available information on their efficacy and economics is discussed. This kind of analysis is essential if growers are to make logical decisions regarding the various control options.

In this paper we present a new Monte Carlo technique for radiosity. This technique is shown to be the dual of the previous multi-path technique, in the same way as a gathering random walk technique is dual to a shooting one. We also show how the same global density of lines can be used to trace paths and thus to obtain estimators of radiosity simultaneously in both dual techniques. Although the...

Many important scientiic problems can be formulated as systems of ordinary diieren-tial equations with two-point boundary value constraints (BVODE). Multiple shooting is one of the most widely used numerical techniques for solving BVODE problems. In this work, we present a new distributed parallel numerical algorithm for BVODEs which is based on multiple shooting. We investigate the numerical s...