Continuous-time optimization is currently an active field of research in theory; prior work this area has yielded useful insights and elegant methods for proving stability convergence properties the continuous-time algorithms. This article proposes novel gradient-flow schemes that yield to optimal point a convex problem within fixed time from any given initial condition unconstrained optimizati...

The Cooperative Intelligent Real-time Control Architecture employs an integrated planningscheduling system to create plans that guarantee system safety in complex real-time environments. The planner uses state transitions with discrete-valued features to build and schedule plans that maintain system safety while achieving mission goals. The product, a real-time control plan, specifies actions p...

Optimal decentralized decision making in a team of cooperative agents as formalized by decentralized POMDPs is a notoriously hard problem. A major obstacle is that the agents do not have access to a sufficient statistic during execution, which means that they need to base their actions on their histories of observations. A consequence is that even during off-line planning the choice of decision...