This document examines finiteness issues in the context of structured global optimization problems. Specific aspects of this research include: (1) Development of finite algorithms, (2) Analysis of the algorithms' computational ...

This thesis also presents CityCollab and its evaluation by a community of users. CityCollab is a collaborative system, which supports the processing of Requests for Work in the context of civil infrastructure management. ...

This dissertation considers three topics. The first part discusses the pricing of American options under a local volatility model and two jump diffusion models: Kou's jump diffusion model and the Dupire system. In Chapter ...

The thesis pertains to some fundamental questions in the theory of games. Our focus is on a class of noncooperative N -player games, called generalized Nash games with shared constraints, or simply, shared-constraint games. ...

This thesis explores the use of generative algorithms in engineering design. A framework for using generative algorithms in design is presented and a case study for passive heat spreaders is devised to demonstrate the ...

Finally, we provide computational results on a real-world medical database pattern recognition problem. These results reveal that the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database is bilinearly inseparable.

In this thesis, we present a model of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) cast in a quadratic assignment problem framework with linearized objective function and constraints. This is referred to as Reformulation Linearization ...

Political districting is an intractable problem with significant ramifications for political representation. Districts are often required to satisfy some legal constraints, but these are typically not very restrictive, ...

Furthermore, nonholonomic systems present a control task that is not suitable for a single, continuous feedback controller. Switched-system control of IBVS and PBVS systems offer the opportunity to use vision data in the ...

This thesis presents some results relating to an implementation of a safe and reliable coverage control algorithm. The application was focused on implementation on differential drive robots developed at the University of ...