this paper deals with leader-following and leaderless consensus problems of high-order multi-input/multi-output (mimo) multi-agent systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics in the presence of uncertain external disturbances. the agents may have different dynamics and communicate together under a directed graph. a distributed adaptive method is designed for both cases. the structures of the contro...

Two new techniques for compiled multi-delay simulation are presented, one which is event-driven and another which is based on the concept of levelized compiled simulation. Experimental results are presented which show a significant performance improvement for compiled event-driven simulation over interpreted event-driven simulation, although this improvement is somewhat less than would normally...

The evaluation of the opportunity of investments on complex production processes is a critical factor in order to enable the balance of risks and potential benefits. There is no out-ofthe-box tool that can solve this problem: only the experience of the responsible expert and his knowledgeability of the process can help. Outcome Driven Innovation is an evaluation technique that can support decis...