The cone of lower semicontinuous traces is studied with a view to its use as an invariant. Its properties include compactness, Hausdorffness, and continuity with respect to inductive limits. A suitable notion of dual cone is given. The cone of lower semicontinuous 2-quasitraces on a (non-exact) C*-algebra is considered as well. These results are applied to the study of the Cuntz semigroup. It i...

Semicontinuous distillation is a process intensification technique for purification of multicomponent mixtures. The system is control-driven and thus the control structure and its tuning parameters have crucial importance in the operation and the economics of the process. In this study, for the first time, implementation of the model predictive control (MPC) on a semicontinuous process is studi...

Given a strictly positive measure, we characterize inner semicontinuous solid convex-valued mappings for which continuous functions which are selections almost everywhere are selections. This class contains continuous mappings as well as fully lower semicontinuous closed convex-valued mappings that arise in variational analysis and optimization of integral functionals. The characterization allo...

The concept of a uniformity was developed by A. Well and there have been several generalizations. This paper defines a point semiuniformity and gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a topological space to be point semiuniformizable. In addition, just as uniformities are associated with topological groups, a point semiuniformity is naturally associated with a semicontinuous group. This p...