Optimization of Outer Diameter Bernoulli Gripper with Cylindrical Nozzle

Microstructured Fibre Taper with Constant Outer Diameter

Optimization of Polling Systems with Bernoulli Schedules

Many computer-communication networks in which the transmission right is circulated among the nodes have been modeled as polling systems. This paper concerns optimization of cyclic polling systems with respect to the service disciplines at the nodes. The service disciplines are chosen to be Bernoulli schedules. Because the optimization problem is not analytically tractable, a numerical approach ...

Reduced Diameter Retractable Cylindrical Mirror Analyzer

Obstruction sets for outer-cylindrical graphs

A graph is outer-cylindrical if it embeds in the sphere so that there are two distinct faces whose boundaries together contain all the vertices. The class of outer-cylindrical graphs is closed under minors. We give the complete set of 38 minor-minimal non-outer-cylindrical graphs, or equivalently, an excluded minor characterization of outercylindrical graphs. We also give the obstruction sets u...

Optimization, Stability and Cylindrical Decomposition

Some connections between constructive real algebraic geometry and constrained optimization are exploited. We show how the problem of determining the projection of a real-algebraic variety on a certain axis is equivalent to a problem in nonlinear programming. As an application, Grr obner bases are used to deal with an optimization problem arising in the theory of local Lyapunov functions. The pr...