Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a collection of metaheuristics inspired by foraging in ant colonies, whose aim is to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We identi...
— We consider a financial decision problem involving dynamic investment decisions on a single risky instrument over multiple and discrete time periods. Investment returns are as...
Ufuk Topcu, Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Laurent El G...
— This paper addresses the problem of testing whether three contact points form a 3-fingered force-closure grasp in two dimensions. In particular, assuming frictional point cont...
Abstract. Reverse-convex programming (RCP) concerns global optimization of a specific class of non-convex optimization problems. We show that a recently proposed model for sparse ...
We propose a modified alternate direction method for solving convex quadratically constrained quadratic semidefinite optimization problems. The method is a first-order method, the...