We develop a point based method for solving finitely nested interactive POMDPs approximately. Analogously to point based value iteration (PBVI) in POMDPs, we maintain a set of belief points and form value functions composed of those value vectors that are optimal at these points. However, as we focus on multiagent settings, the beliefs are nested and computation of the value vectors relies on p...

A generalization of transferable utility cooperative games from the functional forms introduced by von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior) and Lucas and Thrall (1963, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 10, 281–298) is proposed to allow for multiple membership. The definition of the core is adapted analogously and the possibilities for the cross-cutting of cont...

We validate experimentally a fluctuation relation known as generalized Jarzynski equality governing the work distribution in a feedback-controlled system. The feedback control is performed on a single electron box analogously to the original Szilard engine. In the generalized Jarzynski equality, mutual information is treated on an equal footing with the thermodynamic work. Our measurements prov...

We show that an adaptive input/output feedback linearization control scheme for minimum phase nonlinear systems is robust with respect to unstructured plant uncertainties that include such as unmodeled dynamics and disturbances, provided the adaptive law is modiied in the same fashion as for linear systems, and the plant nonlinearities satisses some growth constraints. In the analysis we utiliz...

Let A be a given compact subset of the euclidean space. We consider the problem of finding a compact connected set S of minimal 1dimensional Hausdorff measure, among all compact connected sets containing A. We prove that when A is a finite set any minimizer is a finite tree with straight edges, thus recovery the classical Steiner Problem. Analogously, in the case when A is countable, we prove t...

SUMMARY We propose a new technique for the exact test of Hardy-Weinberg proportion that considerably extends the bounds of computational feasibility. Our algorithm is constructed analogously to a network algorithm for Freeman-Halton exact test in two-way contingency tables. In this algorithm, the smallest and largest values for the statistic are important and some interesting new theorems are p...

Analogously to traditional applications, code duplication occurs frequently during the development and evolution of web applications. This ad-hoc but pathological form of reuse consists in copying, and eventually modifying, a block of existing code that implements a piece of required functionality. Duplicated blocks are named clones and the act of copying, including slight modifications, is cal...

A critical review of gravitational wave theory is made. It is pointed out that the usual linear approach to the gravitational wave theory is neither conceptually consistent nor mathematically justified. Relying upon that analysis it is then argued that — analogously to a Yang-Mills propagating field, which must be nonlinear to carry its gauge charge — a gravitational wave must necessarily be no...

We establish global well-posedness and scattering for solutions to the defocusing mass-critical (pseudoconformal) nonlinear Schrödinger equation iut + ∆u = |u|4/nu for large spherically symmetric Lx(R n) initial data in dimensions n ≥ 3. After using the reductions in [32] to reduce to eliminating blowup solutions which are almost periodic modulo scaling, we obtain a frequency-localized Morawetz...

X-ray crystallography unequivocally shows that protection of the free hydroxyl group of 3,5-O-benzyl-idene-d-xylono-1,4-lactone with diphenyl-diazo-methane proceeded smoothly to give the title compound, C(25)H(22)O(5), with no accompanying epimerization. Unlike the analogously protected lyxono lactone, the isomeric xylono lactone has two mol-ecules present in the asymmetric unit (Z' = 2). The 5...