Time-delays (dead times) are found in many processes in industry. Time-delays are mainly caused by the time required to transport mass, energy or information, but they can also be caused by processing time or accumulation. The contribution is focused on a design of universal digital algorithm for control of great deal of processes with time-delay. This requirement is successfully satisfied with...

In most on-line learning research the total on-line loss of the algorithm is compared to the total loss of the best o¬-line predictor u from a comparison class of predictors. We call such bounds static bounds. The interesting feature of these bounds is that they hold for an arbitrary sequence of examples. Recently some work has been done where the predictor ut at each trial t is allowed to chan...

| In the class of hierarchical mixtures-of-experts (HME) models, \experts" in the exponential family with generalized linear mean functions of the form (+ x T) are mixed, according to a set of local weights called the \gating functions" depending on the predictor x. Here () is the inverse link function. We provide regularity conditions on the experts and on the gating functions under which the ...

Primal-dual affine-scaling methods have recently been extended from linear programming to semidefinite programming. We show how to analyze these methods in the framework of potential reduction algorithms. The analysis suggests implementable variants of the methods as 'long step predictor-corrector' algorithms, where the step length is determined by the potential function. A numerical comparison...

We examine the stability properties of a predictor-corrector implementation of a class of implicit linear multistep methods. The method has recently been described in the literature as suitable for the efficient integration of stiff systems and as having stability regions similar to well known implicit methods. A more detailed analysis reveals that this is not the case.