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In recent years, the establishment of a substantial amount of academic groups on scientific social network has brought new opportunities for the collaboration among researchers. In this situation, conducting paper recommendation to these academic groups is of terrific necessity in that it can further facilitate group activities. However, when producing group recommendation, existing methods fail to make full use of the abundant group information, from which a great deal of valuable information can be inferred to facilitate the recommendation performance. In addition, those methods tend to assign an equal weight to each group member when aggregating their recommendations, which is unreasonable in practice. Although some improvements have been made to remedy this problem by assigning different weights to group members, they fail to take into account the reliabilities of group members. Therefore, a group-oriented paper recommendation method based on probabilistic matrix factorization and evidential reasoning (GPMF_ER) is proposed in this article to tackle these problems. More specifically, the group and paper content information are integrated into the probabilistic matrix factorization model to enhance the accuracy of individual recommendation. Afterward, evidential reasoning rule is introduced in the aggregation step to consider both the weights and reliabilities of group members. Extensive experiments have been conducted on the real world CiteULike dataset and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we address the finite-time and fixed-time synchronization of a general class of switched neural networks (SNNs) with time delays subject to stochastic disturbances. Considering two types of switching in this class of SNNs: 1) intra-SNN state-dependent switching and 2) inter-SNN Markovian switching, we develop three control laws and derive three sets of sufficient conditions for both finite-time and fixed-time synchronization of SNNs subject to stochastic disturbances. We make two remarks on the effects of control-law parameters on synchronization settling time. Moreover, we derive several upper bounds of synchronization settling time and evaluate their pros and cons. Finally, we elaborate on two numerical examples to illustrate the viability of the theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses trajectory planning and control for a dual-arm free-floating space robot (FFSR) based on predefinedtime stability. Firstly, a class of general nonsingular terminal sliding mode control strategy is proposed to achieve global predefined-time stability by switching a control parameter in a form of function. Then, a high-precision trajectory planning method is proposed for a FFSR using the proposed predefined-time stability theorem, which can make the end-effector and the base reach the desired pose within a prespecified time, and reduce the adverse effect on planning accuracy resulted from the singularity avoidance algorithm and the obstacle avoidance one. Subsequently, a trajectory tracking control strategy is proposed for a FFSR employing the proposed general nonsingular predefined-time terminal sliding mode, and the tracking errors can converge within a predefined time to an arbitrarily small neighborhood of zero in the presence of persistent disturbances. The proposed trajectory planning method has the advantage of pose feedback, so can be combined with the trajectory tracking controller in the control process to further enhance the control performance for the FFSR. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to develop a new cooperative path following control scheme for a team of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) which track one curve with nonlinear uncertainties. Individual path-following controllers are designed to guarantee that each AUV meets the desired tracking performance. For the cooperative path following, a containment control approach is incorporated into the design, where each AUV is forced to evenly disperse on a path that is parameterized by a continuous variable over a communication network. The main features of the paper that unlike the existing designs are that: first, by employing the command filtered control technique, the assumption of second-order derivative of the reference path is removed. Second, a globally uniformly ultimately bounded (GUUB) path following control structure is proposed that enables two kinds of controllers to switch under different cases. Third, coordination between multiple AUVs is achieved through a containment design, and a path variable containment cooperative path following controller is derived that enables multiple AUVs to be evenly dispersed and guided by the virtual leaders. Finally, the stability analysis and simulation example are given to verify the proposed control strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In structural health monitoring (SHM), measuring and evaluating structural dynamic responses are critical for safety management of civil infrastructures. Particularly, online forecasting of the structural responses under extreme external loading conditions (e.g., earthquakes) takes a significant role in SHM to provide early warning and ensure safe operation. In practice, complex causality and intrinsic interactions between seismic excitation and structural response make it challenging to establish a reliable predictive scheme. The present paper proposes a novel deep recurrent neural network (RNN) model implemented in the architecture of a time-series attention-based RNN encoder–decoder (TSA-RNN-ED), for predictive analysis of structural responses under seismic excitation. In the proposed data-driven model, upcoming sequential responses are predicted through sequence-to-sequence learning from historical multivariate time-series signals. A time-series attention mechanism is proposed to exploit the heterogeneous, but directly related, hidden features between the seismic loads and the corresponding structural responses. The proposed architecture can reliably regress excitation-response interactions to predict dynamic responses subjected to future earthquakes while satisfying the need of real-time forecasting for on-site practical implementation. This article systematically evaluates the proposed model by using two real-world structural cases: 1) the tallest building in China, the Shanghai Tower and 2) a woodframe classroom on a shake table at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The experimental results demonstrate the accurate and efficient performance of the proposed methodology in forecasting the seismic responses of the structures under investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dynamics of neural networks has been widely concerned by scholars. However, most of the previous results on dynamical bifurcations are limited to few nodes coupling neural networks which modeled by differential equations with integer-order derivative, and few efforts have been contributed to studying the bifurcation behaviors of large-scale fractional-order neural networks. Furthermore, the structural characteristics of networks are also of great research value. Among them, the ring structure is a common phenomenon in neural networks. Although there are few papers on the bifurcation analysis of ring-structured neural networks recently, they consider only the case of a single ring. In this article, the dynamical analysis and design for a class of large-scale-delayed fractional-order neural networks with multiple rings and hub structure are investigated. First, the time delay is considered to be the bifurcation parameter and the formula of Coates’ flow graph is adopted to obtain the characteristic equation of large-scale networks. Second, by analyzing the complex radial and circular connections of neurons, the delay-induced Hopf bifurcation sufficient conditions for the neural network are established. Finally, the theoretical results are substantiated by a number of numerical simulation experiments and the relationships between the onset of bifurcation and the fractional order, the number of neurons, and the number of rings are revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Finding and identifying the minimal number of sensor nodes for a sensor network is one of the most basic problems for the implementation of distributed state estimators. Despite a plethora of research studied sensor networks, most of them ignored this problem or assumed the considered sensor network comes with an ideal number of sensor nodes. We revisit this problem in the current paper. To this end, the minimal number of sensor nodes problem is first formalized and a novel observability condition, namely, minimal nodes uniform observability (MNUO), is then proposed. Next, this MNUO is applied to study the stability issues of the distributed Kalman filtering algorithm. In what follows, under the condition of MNUO, conditions to ensure its stability are given and the results about the relation of the filtering performance before and after selecting the minimal number of sensor nodes are obtained. Finally, optimization solutions and an example are given to find the minimal number of sensor nodes for a sensor network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the state estimation problem for singularly perturbed switched complex dynamic networks (CDNs) is addressed, in which the persistent dwell-time (DT) switching mechanism is employed to depict the switchings among parameters of each node. In the aforementioned switching mechanism, the concept of stage consisting of the persistent portion and the DT portion is introduced. Based on the singular perturbation theory, a two-time-scaling variables containing fast and slow states are taken into account on the CDNs simultaneously, which make the constructed networks more realistic. Furthermore, the main aim is to design a mode-dependent estimator to track the state information that cannot be directly obtained and further ensures the global uniform exponential stability of the investigated systems with a generalized dissipativity property. Some sufficient criteria on the existence of the desired mode-dependent state estimator are established by utilizing a modified matrix decoupling method. Finally, the availability of the estimator design procedures is verified by a simulation example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of studying the complex organization of directed network usually limits the understanding of the underlying relationship between network structures and functions. Structural controllability and structural predictability, two seemingly unrelated subjects, are revealed in this article to be both highly dependent on the critical links previously thought to only be able to influence the number of driver nodes in controllable directed networks. Here, we show that critical links can not only contribute to structural controllability but can also have a significant impact on the structural predictability of networks, suggesting the universal pattern of structural reciprocity in directed networks. In addition, it is shown that the fraction and location of critical links have a strong influence on the performance of prediction algorithms. Moreover, these empirical results are interpreted by introducing the link centrality based on corresponding line graphs. This work bridges the gap between the two independent research fields, and it provides indications of developing advanced control strategies and prediction algorithms from a microscopic perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To achieve net-zero emissions economy, the transition to online entertainment and retail, aging populations, urban population growth, and pressures on public finance have created huge interests for human to run cities differently and smartly. A term titled smart city is created which is considered as an idealistic city, where the quality of life for citizens is greatly improved by utilizing information and communication technology (ICT), new services, and new city infrastructures to efficiently achieve the value, such as sustainable and resilient development. The eco-sustainable method has to be used in several aspects, such as energy, mobility, environment, and social services. Research and development in smart cities is expanding exponentially. SMC is one of the core sponsors of the IEEE Smart Cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most machine learning (ML) models are geared toward improving some desired metric like classification accuracy or inference latency. Given the significant successes of such models, especially supervised ones, in addressing such metrics, the time has come to ask if they can also be put to direct use in understanding the users and addressing basic human needs, e.g., subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity, and freedom. A prerequisite to addressing such human needs is that the ML models exhibit a basic grasp of human psychology. In this article, we present ML models that can be embedded in our smartphone and enable it to understand us. We call this system your smartphone understands you (YSUY). YSUY uses wearable medical sensors to understand our physical, mental, and four-class (two-class) emotional states with 90.0%, 90.3%, and 98.4% (99.5%) accuracy, respectively. After verifying YSUY’s ability to understand the human condition from various perspectives, we evaluate the relationship between the different states and discuss how YSUY can be taken one step further to start playing a helpful role in addressing human needs of the types mentioned above from four different perspectives: “being,” “doing,” “having,” and “interacting.” We show that YSUY is a a promising candidate for adapting ML models to human-centric needs. We view this only as an initial step, hopefully, spurring other researchers to investigate the relationship between ML models and fulfilling human needs in much greater depth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diversity preservation is a crucial technique in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), which aims at evolving the population toward the Pareto front (PF) with a uniform distribution and a good extensity. In spite of many diversity preservation approaches in existing MOEAs, most of them encounter difficulties in tackling complex PFs. This article gives a detail introduction to existing diversity preservation approaches, as well as a revelation of the limitations of them. To address the limitations of existing diversity preservation approaches, this article proposes a multistage MOEA for better diversity performance. The proposed MOEA divides the optimization process into multiple stages according to the population in each generation, and updates the population by different steady-state selection schemes in different stages. According to the experimental results on 21 benchmark problems, the proposed MOEA exhibits better diversity performance than 11 existing MOEAs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The belief rule-base (BRB) model is a new intelligent expert system with the characteristics of both expert system and data-driven model. In BRB there are many if-then rules which use belief degrees to express various types of uncertain information, including fuzziness, randomness, and ignorance. As a semi-quantitative modeling tool for complex systems, BRB has the superiorities of dealing both numerical quantitative data and linguistic qualitative knowledge that are derived from heterogeneous sources. Moreover, it is also a white box approach which can provide direct access and transparency to decision makers and stakeholders. Currently, BRB has been widely applied in many fields, such as decision making, reliability evaluation, network security situation awareness, fault diagnosis, and so on. To fully demonstrate the progress of BRB, the original BRB, and some evolution forms are introduced in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feature selection has been considered as an effective method to solve imbalanced classification problems. It can be formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem (MOP) aiming to find a small feature subset while achieving a high classification accuracy. With traditional MOP, the focus is on deriving an optimal solution (i.e., a feature subset), while ignoring the diversity in solution space (e.g., there could exist multiple feature subsets achieving the same accuracy). Providing more options for feature selection would be beneficial since some features can be more difficult to obtain than others. In this work, we treat feature selection as a multimodal MOP (MMOP) whose goals are to find an excellent Pareto front in objective space and as many equivalent Pareto optimal solutions (feature subsets) as possible in feature space. Note that though several multimodal multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MMEAs) have been proposed, their use of a convergence-first selection criterion could cause the loss of solution diversity in an objective and feature space. To address the issue, a novel competition-driven mechanism is designed to assist the existing multimodal MMEAs in locating more equivalent feature subsets and a desired Pareto front. The effectiveness of the proposed mechanism is first verified on all 22 MMOPs from CEC2019. Then, the proposed method is applied to feature selection in imbalanced classification problems and a real-world application, i.e., credit card fraud detection. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism can not only provide more equivalent feature subsets but also improve classification accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates distributed event-triggered control (ETC) of power buffers in a direct current (DC) microgrid. In order to facilitate the control design, a linear interconnected system model is derived that captures the physical coupling among power buffers. Then, a distributed ETC law regulates the stored energy and input impedance of each power buffer, and a decentralized dynamic event-triggering mechanism determines when each power buffer communicates with its neighboring buffers. This strategy eliminates the need for both continuous controller updates and continuous communication among the power buffers. The resulting closed-loop system is shown to be exponentially stable under a mild assumption on the communication network. The proposed event-triggering mechanism guarantees not only the exclusion of the Zeno behavior but also the existence of a positive minimum interevent time that can be adjusted by the control design parameters. Simulation studies validate the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results for a multibuffer DC microgrid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on the quasisynchronization problem for reaction–diffusion neural networks (RDNNs) in the presence of deception attacks. Under deception attacks, a time–space sampled-data (TSSD) control mechanism is proposed for RDNNs. Compared with traditional control strategies, the proposed control mechanism can not only save network bandwidth but also improve the cybersecurity of communications. Inspired by Halanay’s inequality, a new inequality is proposed, which can be effectively applied to the quasisynchronization problem for dynamical systems. Then, by using this inequality and the Lyapunov functional approach, quasisynchronization criteria are set for RDNNs. The desired control gain is gained from solving a group of linear matrix inequalities. Moreover, in the absence of deception attacks, the exponential synchronization problem is studied for RDNNs. In the end, simulation results are given to demonstrate the usefulness of the theoretical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is concerned with the dynamical analysis and vibration attenuation for a three-dimensional (3-D) suspension cable system of a helicopter preceded by output constraints and input backlash. First, the dynamic model of a 3-D suspension cable is constructed in accordance with Hamilton’s principle. Then, a backlash inverse compensator is established to tackle the input backlash nonlinearities. Subsequently, three boundary controllers together with output signal barrier functions are proposed to dampen the oscillations while not violating the cable swing constraints. The uniform boundedness of the closed-loop system is guaranteed with recourse to the direct Lyapunov’s method. Finally, the validity and efficiency of the derived control laws are testified through simulation results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an effective method to address the tracking control problem arising in uncertain switched high-order nonlinear system in strict-feedback form. The system under consideration contains unknown functions, which causally make the asymptotic tracking performance difficult to be achieved. By adopting the adding a power integrator approach in the framework of backstepping, a novel tracking controller is developed to guarantee an asymptotic tracking performance in the presence of the approximation error cased by neural networks (NNs) under arbitrary switching. The main contributions lie in: 1) the article for the first time embeds the backstepping technique in designing a kind of discontinuous controller with proportional integral (PI) compensation and 2) with the help of Filippov’s theory, a new defined system described by differential inclusions can be first obtained by taking some transformations, and then a novel nonsmooth Lyapunov function approach along with its upper right Dini derivative technique is applied to complete the construction of the discontinuous controller. Finally, two simulation examples are exhibited to verify the validity of the proposed design techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, high-throughput screening (HTS) systems are widely used in pharmaceutical industries and laboratories for the discovery of new drugs and biomedical substances. It is important to efficiently schedule them so as to reduce the cost. In the operation of an HTS system, a microplate may visit some resources more than once and complex time window constraints are imposed on some activities and activity sequences. Moreover, with the consistency requirement, a one-microplate cyclic schedule is necessary. Thus, its scheduling problem is very challenging. This article studies the scheduling problem of an HTS system for an enzymatic assay, a typical application of HTSs, from the perspective of control theory. The system is modeled by resource-oriented Petri nets (ROPNs). With the model, necessary and sufficient conditions under which a feasible cyclic schedule exists are established. Then, we determine how many microplates should be in the system for concurrent processing and the transition firing sequence to obtain the activity sequence for an optimal and feasible schedule. In this way, a feasible and optimal cyclic schedule can be found by very simple computations, which shows that polynomial algorithms for an optimal schedule exist, while the existing studies apply mathematical programming with exponential computation complexity. Also, its efficient implementation is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Threats of cyberattacks have penetrated from disclosing critical user information to destroying/manipulating industrial control systems. Study on data security during network transmission has raised increasing attention in the systems and control community, which is found very necessary and timely in the context of Industry 4.0. In most existing approaches, the protection of the transmitted data from eavesdropping attacks and the detection of malicious integrity attacks are usually carried out separately. In this study, an integrated data-driven framework applicable at the control level is proposed to deal with secure transmission and attack detection simultaneously. In the framework, a secure correlation-based encryption/decryption approach and a trustworthiness judgement approach are proposed. Comprehensive discussions are made regarding the analysis of the sensitivity to attacks, the introduced time delay, and the design degree-of-free. Executable algorithms are presented, corresponding to which hardware is modularized and can work standalone independent from the configuration of the monitoring and control systems or any third-party authentication agencies. Evaluation results on a simulated two-area frequency-load control power grid system are provided to show the effectiveness and performance of the proposed approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Developing complex engineered systems (CES) poses significant challenges for engineers, managers, designers, and businesspeople alike due to the inherent complexity of the systems and contexts involved. Furthermore, experts have expressed great interest in building a foundation of “theories” that describe the patterns underlying how development process qualities shape system outcomes. This article contributes to that foundation in two ways. First, it identifies the core elements of CES development processes (CESDPs) through a literature review. Then, it proposes the ComplEX System Integrated Utilities Model (CESIUM), a novel framework for exploring how numerous system and development process characteristics may affect the performance of CES. CESIUM creates abstract representations of a system architecture, the corresponding engineering organization, and the new product development process through which the organization designs the system. It does so by representing the system as a network of interdependent artifacts designed by agents. Simulated agents iteratively design their artifacts through optimization and share information with other agents, thereby advancing the CES toward a solution. Hence, this article makes it possible for researchers to compare how development process characteristics shape system outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is concerned with the consensus formation control problem of a class of networked quadrotor aircraft partially bounded and state-dependent perturbations. A general distributed consensus error model is first developed to formulate the formation behavior of the networked quadrotor aircraft. Then, by using adaptive techniques, virtual position control strategies are proposed to eliminate the impacts of perturbations, so that the following quadrotor aircraft can boundedly track the desired position trajectory with a satisfying pattern. Furthermore, based on the designed virtual position control strategies, the attitude reference angles are constructed and adaptive attitude control strategies are further designed to guarantee that the attitude angles track the reference angles asymptotically. In terms of the asymptotic tracking results of attitude control systems, the bounded consensus formation results are obtained based on the Lyapunov stability theorem. Numerical simulations are carried out to verify the efficiency of the designed position formation as well as attitude tracking control strategies of the networked quadrotor aircraft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at designing a dynamic event-triggered $\mathcal {H}_{\infty }$ load frequency controller for multi-area power systems affected by false data-injection attacks and denial-of-service attacks. A dynamic event-triggered scheme, whose threshold parameter varies with objective system states, is employed to make rational use of limited network bandwidth resources and improve the efficiency of the data utilization. Then, taking the impacts of the aforementioned hybrid cyber attacks into consideration, an attractive system model is established. Whereafter, several sufficient conditions, which can guarantee the exponential mean-square stability with a preset $\mathcal {H} _{\infty }$ performance index of the studied system, are obtained through utilizing Lyapunov stability theory. Additionally, the desired controller is designed via handling convex optimization problems. Finally, a simulation example is displayed to explain the validity of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is concerned with the cluster consensus control problem for multiagent linear systems with a directed communication topology, where only relative output measurements of neighboring agents are available to each agent. Motivated by the pinning control technique, both static and dynamic intermittent output control strategies are proposed. Using Lyapunov functions, sufficient conditions are developed to ensure cluster consensus with existence-guaranteed control parameters. Both periodic and nonperiodic operations of intermittent controllers are investigated. Finally, the effectiveness of the theoretical results is demonstrated by a simulation example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given a discrete event system, it is said to be opaque if an intruder who can partially observe system behavior cannot infer that the system is necessarily in a predefined secret. A discrete event system is current-state opaque if an intruder is never able to verify whether the current state of the system is within the secret states. This article addresses the verification of current-state opacity of a discrete event system modeled with Petri nets, where the secret is defined as a set of states. The existing methods cannot deal with large-sized systems due to the curse of dimensionality. Multi-valued decision diagrams (MDDs) are widely accepted as an efficient and compact data structure for representing the extremely large reachability sets of Petri nets. We show that MDDs can be used in Petri nets with partial observable transitions and propose an approach for the verification of current-state opacity for bounded Petri nets. It is shown by experimental studies that the symbolic approach is practically more efficient than traditional techniques such as basis reachability graphs (BRGs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It remains an important research topic for the classification of imbalanced data. There exist some methods to solve this problem, such as hybrid-sampling, over-sampling, and under-sampling. Each method has its own advantage, and different methods generally provide some complementary knowledge. We want to combine these three methods at the decision level in an appropriate way for achieving as good as possible classification performance. Evidence theory is expert at representing and combining uncertain information. So a new method called an evidential combination of classifiers (ECC) is proposed for dealing with imbalanced data. The classification result generated by different strategies (i.e., hybrid-sampling, over-sampling, or under-sampling) may have different reliabilities for query patterns. A cautious reliability evaluation rule is developed for each classification result based on the close neighborhoods. After that, the classification result is revised with a new belief redistribution way according to the reliability evaluation, and the probability/belief of one class can be partially transferred to other classes as well as the total ignorance, which is defined by the whole frame of classes. By doing this, we can reduce the error risk of each classification method. Then, the revised classification results from different methods are combined by evidence theory to make the final class decision. The effectiveness of the ECC method has been demonstrated using several experiments, and it shows that ECC can effectively improve the classification performance comparing with other related methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compared with stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by white noise, random differential equations (RDEs) generated by colored noise are claimed to be more practical. This article considers reduced-order high-gain observer (ROHGO)-based neural tracking control on random nonlinear systems having output delay. In order to foster the design and analysis, the estimated states and the estimation errors are scaled by the high gain of the observer. Based on neural network (NN) approximation and state observation, an adaptive controller is designed for the overall system using the backstepping method. It is proved that all the closed-loop signals are bounded almost surely, letting alone the tracking error. By tuning the related design parameters, the asymptotic tracking error could be regulated arbitrarily small. Within the best of our knowledge, this article serves as the first attempt for NN-based control on RDE systems. Finally, the validity of main results is confirmed by a simulation example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose a novel semi-supervised learning (SSL) assumption—the high separation probability (HSP) assumption—that is complementary to the common low density separation (LDS) assumption, and a highly accurate and efficient SSL algorithm, the transductive minimax probability machine (TMPM). Under the HSP assumption, a preferred classifier should ensure that with high probability the samples are far away from the decision boundary. Similarly, the LDS assumption states that the decision boundary should lie in a low-density region. A remarkable property of HSP is that it provides an elegant theoretical framework for analyzing the generalization performance of SSL, while it remains difficult for the LDS assumption to have a quantitative criterion on how it fits the data. Moreover, it has the same paradigm as the minimax probability machine (MPM) and yields an intractable mixed-integer optimization for solving the transductive label assignment problem. Consequently, we propose TMPM with a label-switching strategy and iterative manner to formalize our approximate solution. Theoretically, we analyze the computational complexity, convergence property, and generalization error bound of TMPM. Empirically, we show that TMPM achieves competitive performance on a wide range of datasets, while being almost one order of magnitude faster than existing SSL approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a novel secure-control framework against sensor deception attacks. The vulnerability of cyber-physical systems with respect to sensor deceptive attacks makes that all sensor measurements are not reliable until the system security is assured by an attack detection module. Most of the active attack detection strategies require some time to assess the system security, while injecting a watermark signal to ease the detection. However, the injection of watermark signals deteriorates the performance and stability of the plant. The proposed control framework consists of a dual-rate control (DRC) that is able to stabilize the plant using: 1) a model predictive controller that operates at a slower sampling time; 2) a state-feedback predictor-based controller that operates in the nominal sampling time disregarding the use of the untrustworthy measurements until the attack detector is able to certify the security; and 3) a reconfiguration block (RB) for palliating the effect of the watermarking. Simulation results indicate the efficacy of the proposed DRC framework to defend the system from cyber-attacks and the ability of the RB to improve the closed-loop performance during the watermark injection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is concerned with the stochastic stability and $l_{1}$ -gain control of two-dimensional (2-D) positive Markov jump systems (PMJSs) with directional delays based on the Roesser model. First, necessary and sufficient conditions (NSCs) for the stochastic stability of the addressed system are established by constructing a deterministic “equivalent” system and applying a stochastic copositive Lyapunov function. This reveals that the stochastic stability of 2-D PMJSs with delays is affected by the size of directional delays, the transition matrix, and system matrices. Second, the exact $l_{1}$ -gain index is calculated and NSCs in the form of linear programming (LP) are established for the addressed system. Systematic methods for the $l_{1}$ -gain controller design are proposed so that the closed-loop system (CLS) is positive and stochastically stable and has an optimal $l_{1}$ -gain performance, which is achieved using an iterative algorithm and an analytical calculation method for a single-input case. Finally, the potency and accuracy of the theoretical results are verified using two examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]