The analysis of flow in water-distribution networks with several pumps by the Content Model may be turned into a non-convex optimization uncertain problem with multiple solutions. Newton-based methods such as GGA are not able to capture a global optimum in these situations. On the other hand, evolutionary methods designed to use the population of individuals may find a global solution even for ...

Let P be a set of n labeled points in the plane. The radial system of P describes, for each p ∈ P , the order in which a ray that rotates around p encounters the points in P \ {p}. This notion is related to the order type of P , which describes the orientation (clockwise or counterclockwise) of every ordered triple in P . Given only the order type, the radial system is uniquely determined and c...

In tolerancing, the Out-Of-Roundness factor determines the relative circularity of planar shapes. The measurement of concern in this work is the Minimum Radial Separation, as recommended by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Here we show that the algorithm given in Le and Lee [6] runs in /9(n 2) time even for convex polygons. Furthermore, we present an optimal O(n) time algorithm...

many simulation algorithms (chemical reaction systems, differential systems arising from the modeling of transient behavior in the process industries and etc.) contain the numerical solution of systems of differential equations. for the efficient solution of the above mentioned problems, linear multistep methods or runge-kutta technique are used. for the simulation of chemical procedures the ra...

We give an extension to a nonconvex setting of the classical radial representation result for lower semicontinuous envelope of a convex function on the boundary of its effective domain. We introduce the concept of radial uniform upper semicontinuity which plays the role of convexity, and allows to prove a radial representation result for nonconvex functions. An application to the relaxation of ...