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CCE
2004
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Continuous reformulations of discrete-continuous optimization problems
This paper treats the solution of nonlinear optimization problems involving discrete decision variables, also known as generalized disjunctive programming (GDP) or mixed-integer n...
Oliver Stein, Jan Oldenburg, Wolfgang Marquardt
ALGORITHMICA
2000
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Algorithms for Sensorless Manipulation Using a Vibrating Surface
We describe a programmable apparatus that uses a vibrating surface for sensorless, nonprehensile manipulation, where parts are systematically positioned and oriented without sensor...
Karl-Friedrich Böhringer, Vivek Bhatt, Bruce ...
ADCM
1998
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Numerical exploitation of symmetry in integral equations
: Linear integral operators describing physical problems on symmetric domains often are equivariant, which means that they commute with certain symmetries, i.e., with a group of or...
Eugene L. Allgower, Kurt Georg
AIEDAM
1998
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Learning to set up numerical optimizations of engineering designs
Gradient-based numerical optimization of complex engineering designs offers the promise of rapidly producing better designs. However, such methods generally assume that the object...
Mark Schwabacher, Thomas Ellman, Haym Hirsh
SYNTHESE
2011
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Models and the locus of their truth
If models can be true, where is their truth located? Giere (e.g. 1988) has suggested an account of theoretical models on which models themselves are not truth-valued. The paper su...
Uskali Mäki