Many real life situations can be described using twice continuously differentiable functions over convex sets with interior points. Such functions have an interesting separation property: At every interior point of the set they separate particular classes of quadratic convex functions from classes of quadratic concave functions. Using this property we introduce new characterizations of the deri...

The problems of intersection and union of spheres of the same radius in Hamming metric are considered. The formula for number of points in intersection is derived in case of two spheres. It is proved that three or more spheres of radius (covering radius of a code ) centered at points belonging to some quasi-perfect code intersect at most at one point. It is also proved that the increase of card...

This paper is concerned with the study of duality conditions to convex-concave generalized multiobjective fuzzy nonlinear fractional disjunctive programming problems for which the decision set is the union of a family of convex sets. The Lagrangian function for such problems is defined and the Kuhn-Tucker Saddle and Stationary points are characterized. In addition, some important theorems relat...

A rejection algorithm { called transformed density rejection { that uses a new method for constructing simple hat functions for an unimodal, bounded density f is introduced. It is based on the idea to transform f with a suitable transformation T such that T (f(x)) is concave. f is then called T-concave and tangents of T (f(x)) in the mode and in a point on the left and right side are used to co...

A conjecture expressing genus 1 Gromov-Witten invariants in mirror-theoretic terms of semi-simple Frobenius structures and complex oscillating integrals is formulated. The proof of the conjecture is given for torus-equivariant Gromov Witten invariants of compact Kähler manifolds with isolated fixed points and for concave bundle spaces over such manifolds. Several results on genus 0 Gromov Witte...

This paper is concerned with the study of necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for convex–concave fractional disjunctive programming problems for which the decision set is the union of a family of convex sets. The Lagrangian function for such problems is defined and the Kuhn–Tucker saddle and stationary points are characterized. In addition, some important theorems related to the Kuhn...

Generating samples from multivariate distributions efficiently is an important task in Monte Carlo integration and many other stochastic simulation problems. Markov chain Monte Carlo has been shown to be very efficient compared to “conventional methods”, especially when many dimensions are involved. In this article we propose a Hit-and-Run sampler in combination with the Ratio-of-Uniforms metho...

The frequency-domain data of a multivariable system in different operating points is used to design a robust controller with respect to the measurement noise and multimodel uncertainty. The controller is fully parametrized in terms of matrix polynomial functions and can be formulated as a centralized, decentralized or distributed controller. All standard performance specifications like H2, H∞ a...

Abstract. This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of the solutions of a macroscopic model for the description of the flow of pedestrians. Solutions of the associated Riemann problem are known to be possibly nonclassical in the sense that the underlying discontinuities may well violate the Lax inequalities, which makes their numerical approximation very sensitive. This study pro...