We consider a variational optimization problem involving multifunctions and we prove a stability result with respect to the Monge-Kantorovich metric. We then show an application to variational problems defined on fractals generated by Iterated Function Systems.

This work concerns the optimal regulation of single-input-single-output nonminimum-phase nonlinear processes of relative order one. The problem of calculation of an ISE-optimal, statically equivalent, minimum-phase output for nonminimum-phase compensation is formulated using Hamilton-Jacobi theory and the normal form representation of the nonlinear system. A Newton-Kantorovich iteration is deve...

In this paper, the numerical algorithm for solving the state and output feedback H∞-constrained LQG control problem is investigated. Although the equations that have to be solved to design the controller consist of the nonlinear crosscoupled algebraic Riccati equations (CAREs), it is newly proven that both the uniqueness and the positive semidefiniteness of the iterative solutions can be guaran...

Image registration is the process of establishing a common geometric reference frame between two or more data sets from the same or different imaging modalities possibly taken at different times. In the context of medical imaging and in particular image guided therapy, the registration problem consists of finding automated methods that align multiple data sets with each other and with the patie...

Active Learning Method (ALM) is a soft computing method which is used for modeling and control, based on fuzzy logic. Although ALM has shown that it acts well in dynamic environments, its operators cannot support it very well in complex situations due to losing data. Thus ALM can find better membership functions if more appropriate operators be chosen for it. This paper substituted two new oper...

In this article I elaborate and codify the extended case method, which deploys participant observation to locate everyday life in its extralocal and historical context. The extended case method emulates a reflexive model of science that takes as its premise the intersubjectivity of scientist and subject of study. Reflexive science valorizes intervention, process, structuration, and theory recon...

In this article, we present a simple direct matrix method for analytically computing the Jacobian of nonlinear algebraic equations that arise from the discretization of nonlinear integrodifferential equations. This method is based on a formulation of the discretized equations in vector form using only matrix-vector products and component-wise operations. By applying simple matrixbased different...

This is an overview of the life and scientific legacy of Leonid V. Kantorovich (1912--1986) who stood at the cradle of linear programming, vector lattices, and computational mathematics. Linear programming as well as mathematical economics belongs to or at least borders the realm of applied mathematics. The epithets “pure” and “applied” for mathematics have many deficiencies provoking endless d...