A fluctuation relation, which is an extended form of the Jarzynski equality, is introduced and discussed. We show how to apply this relation in order to evaluate the free energy landscape of simple systems. These systems are manipulated by varying the external field coupled with a systems’ internal characteristic variable. Two different manipulation protocols are here considered: in the first c...

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We have proposed an extension to the deenition of general integer linear programs (ILP) to accept dis-equality constraints explicitly. A new class of logical variables is introduced to transform the extended ILP in general form to standard form. Branch and Bound algorithm is modiied to solve this new class of ILP.

This paper deals with the robust filtering problem for linear discrete-time constrained systems. The purpose is the design of a linear filter such that the resulting error system is bounded. An orthogonal factorization is used to decompose the original robust filtering problem into stochastic and deterministic parts, which are then solved separately. Finally, a numerical example is presented to...

Quadratic programming (QP) is an optimization problem wherein one minimizes (or maximizes) a quadratic function of a finite number of decision variable subject to a finite number of linear inequality and/ or equality constraints. In this paper, a quadratic programming problem (FFQP) is considered in which all cost coefficients, constraints coefficients, and right hand side are characterized by ...

Linear equality systems with fuzzy parameters and crisp variables defined by the extension principle are called possibilistic linear equality systems. The study focuses on the problem of stability (with respect to perturbations of fuzzy parameters) of the solution in these systems.

Design conditions for existence of memory-less feedback control for stabilization of discrete-time systems with equality constraints given on the state variables are presented in the paper. The design problem is addressed for linear discretetime systems with equality constraints tying together some state variables. Using the classical memory-less feedback control principle LMI-based procedures ...

We present three new methods that investigate the equalities implied by a system of linear arithmetic constraints. Implied equalities can be used to simplify linear arithmetic constraints and are valuable in the context of Nelson-Oppen style combinations of theories. The first method efficiently checks whether a system of linear arithmetic constraints implies an equality at all. In case the sys...

Linear equality systems with fuzzy parameters and crisp variables defined by the Zadeh’s extension principle are called possibilistic linear equality systems. This study focuses on the problem of stability (with respect to small changes in the membership function of fuzzy parameters) of the solution in these systems.

Linear equality and inequality systems with fuzzy parameters defined by the extension principle are called possibilistic linear equality and inequality systems. The solution of these systems is defined in the sense of BellmanZadeh [1]. This paper investigate stability and continuity properties of the solution in the above-named systems.