We show that the usual dilaton dominance scenario, derived from the tree level Kähler potential, can never correspond to a global minimum of the potential at V = 0. Similarly, under very general assumptions it cannot correspond to a local minimum either, unless a really big conspiracy of different contributions to the superpotential W (S) takes place. These results, plus the fact that the Kähle...

Many processes are influenced by uncertain parameters or external disturbances, such as temperature changes. The control of such systems is in general challenging. In this work, we consider robust multi-scenario Model Predictive Control (MPC). Its central idea is to assume a finite number of possible values for the uncertainties and to model their combinations in a scenario tree. We adapt the c...

In this work we explore the use of metric index structures, which accelerate nearest neighbor queries, in the scenario where we need to interleave insertions and queries during deployment. This use-case is inspired by a real-life need in malware analysis triage, and is surprisingly understudied. Existing literature tends to either focus on only final query efficiency, often does not support inc...

In this study, we argue that users participating in the design process will form the participation as a function of their professional role, but also as a function of their identity more or less independent from their role. In order to get the full potential of cooperative design the user identity in general and in this case their attitudes towards technology in particular should be incorporate...

The objective of this paper is to bring systematic methods for scenario tree generation to the attention of the Process Systems Engineering community. In this paper, we focus on a general, data-driven optimization-based method for generating scenario trees, which does not require strict assumptions on the probability distributions of the uncertain parameters. This method is based on the Moment ...

Backtracking and investigating alternative scenarios are a integral parts of exploratory data analysis. Yet today's interfaces cannot represent alternative exploration paths as a branching history, forcing the user to recognize conceptual branch points in a linear history. Further, the interface can only show information from one state at a time, forcing users to rely on memory to compare scena...