All a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Other

Previous Page 31 Next

Displaying 601 – 620 of 686

Showing per page

Optimal networks for mass transportation problems

Alessio Brancolini, Giuseppe Buttazzo (2005)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

In the framework of transport theory, we are interested in the following optimization problem: given the distributions μ + of working people and μ - of their working places in an urban area, build a transportation network (such as a railway or an underground system) which minimizes a functional depending on the geometry of the network through a particular cost function. The functional is defined as the Wasserstein distance of μ + from μ - with respect to a metric which depends on the transportation network....

Optimal networks for mass transportation problems

Alessio Brancolini, Giuseppe Buttazzo (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

In the framework of transport theory, we are interested in the following optimization problem: given the distributions µ+ of working people and µ- of their working places in an urban area, build a transportation network (such as a railway or an underground system) which minimizes a functional depending on the geometry of the network through a particular cost function. The functional is defined as the Wasserstein distance of µ+ from µ- with respect to a metric which depends on the transportation...

Optimal nonlinear transformations of random variables

Aldo Goia, Ernesto Salinelli (2010)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

In this paper we deepen the study of the nonlinear principal components introduced by Salinelli in 1998, referring to a real random variable. New insights on their probabilistic and statistical meaning are given with some properties. An estimation procedure based on spline functions, adapting to a statistical framework the classical Rayleigh–Ritz method, is introduced. Asymptotic properties of the estimator are proved, providing an upper bound for the rate of convergence under suitable mild conditions....

Optimal observability of the multi-dimensional wave and Schrödinger equations in quantum ergodic domains

Yannick Privat, Emmanuel Trélat, Enrique Zuazua (2016)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We consider the wave and Schrödinger equations on a bounded open connected subset Ω of a Riemannian manifold, with Dirichlet, Neumann or Robin boundary conditions whenever its boundary is nonempty. We observe the restriction of the solutions to a measurable subset ω of Ω during a time interval [ 0 , T ] with T > 0 . It is well known that, if the pair ( ω , T ) satisfies the Geometric Control Condition ( ω being an open set), then an observability inequality holds guaranteeing that the total energy of solutions can be...

Optimal placement of controls for a one-dimensional active noise control problem

Fariba Fahroo (1998)

Kybernetika

In this paper, we investigate the optimal location of secondary sources (controls) to enhance the reduction of the noise field in a one-dimensional acoustic cavity. We first formulate the active control strategy as a linear quadratic tracking (LQT) problem in a Hilbert space, and then formulate the optimization problem as minimizing an appropriate performance criterion based on the LQT cost function with respect to the location of the controls. A numerical scheme based on the Legendre–tau method...

Optimal position targeting with stochastic linear-quadratic costs

Stefan Ankirchner, Thomas Kruse (2015)

Banach Center Publications

We consider the dynamic control problem of attaining a target position at a finite time T, while minimizing a linear-quadratic cost functional depending on the position and speed. We assume that the coefficients of the linear-quadratic cost functional are stochastic processes adapted to a Brownian filtration. We provide a probabilistic solution in terms of two coupled backward stochastic differential equations possessing a singularity at the terminal time T. We verify optimality of the candidate...

Optimal potentials for Schrödinger operators

Giuseppe Buttazzo, Augusto Gerolin, Berardo Ruffini, Bozhidar Velichkov (2014)

Journal de l’École polytechnique — Mathématiques

We consider the Schrödinger operator - Δ + V ( x ) on H 0 1 ( Ω ) , where Ω is a given domain of ℝ d . Our goal is to study some optimization problems where an optimal potential V ≥ 0 has to be determined in some suitable admissible classes and for some suitable optimization criteria, like the energy or the Dirichlet eigenvalues.

Optimal resource allocation in a large scale system under soft constraints

Zdzisław Duda (2000)

Kybernetika

In the paper there is discussed a problem of the resource allocation in a large scale system in the presence of the resource shortages. The control task is devided into two levels, with the coordinator on the upper level and local controllers on the lower one. It is assumed that they have different information. The coordinator has an information on mean values of users demands, an inflow forecast and an estimation of the resource amount in a storage reservoir. On the basis on this information it...

Optimal Screening in Structured SIR Epidemics

B. Ainseba, M. Iannelli (2012)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

We present a model for describing the spread of an infectious disease with public screening measures to control the spread. We want to address the problem of determining an optimal screening strategy for a disease characterized by appreciable duration of the infectiveness period and by variability of the transmission risk. The specific disease we have in mind is the HIV infection. However the model will apply to a disease for which class-age structure...

Optimal shape design in a fibre orientation model

Jan Stebel, Raino Mäkinen, Jukka I. Toivanen (2007)

Applications of Mathematics

We study a 2D model of the orientation distribution of fibres in a paper machine headbox. The goal is to control the orientation of fibres at the outlet by shape variations. The mathematical formulation leads to an optimization problem with control in coefficients of a linear convection-diffusion equation as the state problem. Existence of solutions both to the state and the optimization problem is analyzed and sensitivity analysis is performed. Further, discretization is done and a numerical example...

Optimal snapshot location for computing POD basis functions

Karl Kunisch, Stefan Volkwein (2010)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

The construction of reduced order models for dynamical systems using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is based on the information contained in so-called snapshots. These provide the spatial distribution of the dynamical system at discrete time instances. This work is devoted to optimizing the choice of these time instances in such a manner that the error between the POD-solution and the trajectory of the dynamical system is minimized. First and second order optimality systems are given. Numerical...

Optimal solutions for a model of tumor anti-angiogenesis with a penalty on the cost of treatment

Urszula Ledzewicz, Vignon Oussa, Heinz Schättler (2009)

Applicationes Mathematicae

The scheduling of angiogenic inhibitors to control a vascularized tumor is analyzed as an optimal control problem for a mathematical model that was developed and biologically validated by Hahnfeldt et al. [Cancer Res. 59 (1999)]. Two formulations of the problem are considered. In the first one the primary tumor volume is minimized for a given amount of angiogenic inhibitors to be administered, while a balance between tumor reduction and the total amount of angiogenic inhibitors given is minimized...

Currently displaying 601 – 620 of 686