This paper analyzes a connection between risk-sensitive and minimax criteria for discrete-time, nite-states Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We synthesize optimal policies with respect to both criteria, both for nite horizon and discounted in nite horizon problem. A generalized decision-making framework is introduced, which includes as special cases a number of approaches that have been consid...

During any marine oil spill, floating oil slicks that reach shorelines threaten a wide array of coastal habitats. To assess the presence of oil near shorelines during the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, we scanned the library of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery collected during the event to determine which images intersected shorelines and appeared to contain oil. In total, 715 SAR ima...

Issues of feasibility and stability are considered for a nite horizon formulation of receding horizon control for linear systems under mixed linear state and control constraints. We prove that given any compact set of initial conditions that is feasible for the innnite horizon problem, there exists a nite horizon length above which a receding horizon policy will provide both feasibility and sta...

Tacit knowledge, intuition, intuitive heritage are very broad concepts and sometimes too vague to provide for any practical applications (as a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush). Only some of the many possible intuitive factors in science are chosen. Indo-European mythology belongs to the heritage of humanity, but has nothing to do with the mathematical creation of set theory. It is pos...

objective(s) nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nachrs) regulate epileptiform activity and produce a sustained pro-epileptogenic action within the hippocampal slices. in the present study, we investigated the effect of nachrs on evoked glutamatergic synaptic transmission in area ca3 and ca1 of rat hippocampal slices to identify possible excitatory circuits through which activation of nachrs pro...