In this paper, we address the problem of control of the transmission wave equation. In particular, we consider the case where, due to total internal reflection of waves at the interface, the system may not be controlled from exterior boundaries. We show that such a system can be controlled by introducing both boundary control along the exterior boundary and distributed control near the transmis...

When agents collaborate to perform a control task, it is of interest to characterize the set of joint probability distributions they can achieve on their joint action space when they are passively provided with external common randomness. We give a simple counterexample to a natural conjecture about this class of joint distributions.

We examine soft-pion emission in deeply virtual Compton scattering. Contrary to previous claims, we find that the amplitude for soft-pion emission is not directly related to the generalized parton distributions in the nucleon.

This paper introduces the prototyping of an intelligent supervision system, intended to become an advanced manufacturing process control system, and is a summary of its conceptual framework. Constraints linked to each development on an industrial field let emerge new concepts and in our case the two parts of this framework: the structure of the advanced manufacturing process control system and ...

The objective of this paper is to deal with the stabilization of multi-dimensional wave equations under non-collocated control and observation with the following cases: a) internal distributed control and boundary observation; b) boundary control and internal distributed observation; c) locally internal distributed control and boundary observation.

We present a simple model for risky, corporate debt. Debtholders and equityholders have incomplete information about the financial state of the debt issuing company. Information is incomplete because it is delayed for all agents, and it is asymmetrically distributed between debtholders and equityholders. We solve for the equityholders' optimal default policy and for the credit spreads required ...

We develop a decision-making framework for DES, which is unifying in two ways. Firstly, it unifies the architectures: we develop a decision-making system for a generic wellformed architecture; and then, we specialize the framework for centralized and decentralized architectures. Secondly, it unifies supervisory control, diagnosis and prognosis: we develop a framework for a generic well-formed d...