DENG, ZHIBIN. Conic Reformulations and Approximations to Some Subclasses of Nonconvex Quadratic Programming Problems. (Under the direction of Dr. Shu-Cherng Fang.) In this dissertation, some subclasses of nonconvex quadratic programming problems are studied. We first study the nonconvex quadratic programming problem over the standard simplex with application to copositive matrix detection. A se...

It is well known that the bilinear transform, or first order diagonal Padé approximation to the matrix exponential, preserves quadratic Lyapunov functions between continuous-time and corresponding discrete-time linear time invariant (LTI) systems, regardless of the sampling time. It is also well known that this mapping preserves common quadratic Lyapunov functions between continuous-time and di...

with t t t j ε ε ε Im Re + = , where } {Re t ε and } {Im t ε are independent real Gaussian white noise processes each with zero mean and variance 2 2 σ . These processes have been widely used to model the noise component in data models consisting of a deterministic signal and an additive noise. The pure harmonic signal, the damped harmonic signal, and the polynomial phase signal can be given as...