Simplified models of limit-cycle walking on flat terrain have provided important insights into the nature of legged locomotion. Real walking robots (and humans), however, do not exhibit true limit cycle dynamics because terrain, even in a carefully designed laboratory setting, is inevitably non-flat. Walking systems on stochastically rough terrain may not satisfy strict conditions for limit-cyc...

We obtain the optimal harvesting plan to maximize the expected discounted number of individuals harvested over an infinite future horizon, under the most common (»erhulst-Pearl) logistic model for a stochastically fluctuating population. We also solve the problem for the standard variants of the model where there are constraints on the admissible harvesting rates. We use stochastic calculus to ...

We consider the problem of learning the state of dynamic network with vertex values that are perturbed over time. Our only interface to the network comes in the form of point probes, where we are allowed to query local information about the state of a specific point in the network. In this paper, we consider network models where the values of the vertices are perturbed uniformly at random at ev...

Bronchial thermoplasty is a novel procedure for patients with severe asthma showing a stable lung function. We herein report two cases with a deteriorating lung function. The lung function tended to improve in one case, while the other case discontinued mepolizumab medication after the procedure. Treatment was performed safely under general anesthesia in both cases. The use of bronchial thermop...

The tremendous development of location-based services and mobile devices has led to an increase in location databases. Through the data mining process, valuable information can be discovered from such location databases. However, the malicious data miner or attackers may also extract private and sensitive information about the user, and this can create threats against the user location privacy....

The problem of scheduling the production of new and recoverable defective items of the same product manufactured on the same facility is studied. Items are processed in batches. Each batch comprises two sub-batches processed consecutively. In the first subbatch, all the items are newly manufactured. Some of them are of the required good quality and some are defective. The defective items are re...