This is a summary of the most important results presented in the author's PhD thesis (Spanjaard, 2003). This thesis, written in French, was defended on 16 December 2003 and su...
This paper considers the problem of designing a controller for an unknown plant based on input/output measurements. The new design method we propose is direct (no model identificat...
Parametric models for estimating network link delays with incomplete data that incorporate spatial correlation are formulated. Fast numerical methods for estimation of parameters ...
Managed runtime systems, such as a Java virtual machine (JVM), are complex pieces of software with many interacting components. The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is at the core of t...
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...