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A Coiflet-type wavelet-homotopy approach is implemented to investigate the large deformation of a circular plate resting on different nonlinear foundations with various boundary parameters. A parameterized and continuous boundary model for circular plate with various constraints of rotation and translation has been proposed overlooked in previous studies. Parameterized wavelet approximation of arbitrary Robin-type boundary is reconstituted without variable substitution. Comprehensive analysis on the parameterized Robin-type boundaries is conducted by Linear Programming Approach, indicating the boundary singularities are actually false corresponding to the degenerated cases of Dirichlet-type and Neumann-type ones. Highly accurate Coiflet-type solutions of the coupled governing nonlinear differential equations with integration involving in extreme bending of circular plate have been obtained performing good computational efficiency in excellent agreement with other numerical results, which implies the wavelet scheme is a high precision computation method with great potential in giving highly accurate solutions of strongly nonlinear problems. • The new Coiflet-type wavelet approach for Robin boundary conditions is proposed. • Extreme large bending of a circular plate resting nonlinear foundations is analyzed. • Highly accurate solutions with integrations and singularities are obtained. • Parameterized Robin-type boundaries are conducted by Linear Programming Approach. • Validity and efficiency of the proposed technique is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the design problem of multiple‐mode observer and multiple‐mode controller is studied for switched positive linear systems. By proposing a new design approach for a class of switched positive linear system, numerical conditions for the existence of multiple‐mode observer and multiple‐mode controller are presented by using linear programming approach. First, a multiple‐mode observer is designed such that the error system is exponentially stable. Next, a robust multiple‐mode interval observer is presented for uncertain switched positive systems with uncertain parameters. In the sequel, a multiple‐mode output‐feedback controller is designed such that the closed‐loop system is exponentially stable. Compared with the existing references, the design method can bring out lower computational burden. Finally, three examples are given to show the effectiveness of the authors' results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the authors analyse the stability of switched positive linear time‐delay systems. By developing a novel multiple discontinuous co‐positive Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional approach, the stability conditions are established for switched positive time delay systems by a linear programming approach under mode‐dependent average dwell time switching. Moreover, under average dwell time switching, the corresponding stability conditions are also proposed. It is shown that their results can obtain smaller lower bounds on dwell time. Finally, simulation results are given to show the effectiveness of their methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we investigate an optimization problem for continuous-time Markov decision processes with both impulsive and continuous controls. We consider the so-called constrained problem where the objective of the controller is to minimize a total expected discounted optimality criterion associated with a cost rate function while keeping other performance criteria of the same form, but associated with different cost rate functions, below some given bounds. Our model allows multiple impulses at the same time moment. The main objective of this work is to study the associated linear program defined on a space of measures including the occupation measures of the controlled process and to provide sufficient conditions to ensure the existence of an optimal control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main results of the paper are concerned with determining the optimal stationary strategies for stochastic discrete control problems on networks with discounted costs. We ground polynomial time algorithms for determining the optimal strategies of this problem using a linear programming approach. Additionally, we show that the proposed approach can be extended for Markov decision processes with a total discounted cost optimization criterion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the feedback control for a class of switched positive linear systems (SPLSs). By means of the linear programming approach, output‐feedback and state‐feedback controllers for the underlying systems with average dwell time are designed, respectively. Under these controllers, the closed‐loop systems are positive and asymptotically stable. These results obtained provide a way to solve the control synthesis problems of SPLSs by multiple linear copositive Lyapunov functions. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the validity of the present design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The topic of the paper is computer testing of (probabilistic) conditional independence (CI) implications by an algebraic method of structural imsets. The basic idea is to transform (sets of) CI statements into certain integral vectors and to verify by a computer the corresponding algebraic relation between the vectors, called the independence implication. We interpret the previous methods for computer testing of this implication from the point of view of polyhedral geometry. However, the main contribution of the paper is a new method, based on linear programming (LP). The new method overcomes the limitation of former methods to the number of involved variables. We recall/describe the theoretical basis for all four methods involved in our computational experiments, whose aim was to compare the efficiency of the algorithms. The experiments show that the LP method is clearly the fastest one. As an example of possible application of such algorithms we show that testing inclusion of Bayesian network structures or whether a CI statement is encoded in an acyclic directed graph can be done by the algebraic method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to develop an automation platform that particularly emphases the beam reinforcements of a continuous beam of an RC building and automatically checks all designs to ensure that the arrangements of reinforcements comply with the American Concrete Institute code. The platform can establish the types of location patterns of lap splices (called lapping patterns) for the longitudinal reinforcements; calculate the length of every reinforcement; arrange the same sized reinforcements by length in decreasing order; choose the proper stock lengths for bar cutting; and determine the best lapping pattern with optimal stock length by the trial and error method or the linear programming approach, which can yield the most economical way to supply a proper stock length for cutting. Finally, the platform can automatically generate the shop drawing and schedule the reinforcements, which may be very useful for building construction and management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]