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Repair-Control of Enterprise Systems Using RFID Sensory Data
This paper provides a framework for implementing real-time enterprise planning, scheduling and control processes based on information provided by RFID sensing systems.
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The Declarative Approach to Design of Robust Control Systems
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Declarative Multiplexed Rational Controlers
Discussion of an architecture for the design and implementation of a class of feedback knowledge based automnomous control systems in which the central operational element, the Inferencer, is an on-line mechanical theorem prover...
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Distributed Intelligent control Theory of Hybrid Systems
Recent advances in multiple-agent, distributed control of interactive processes...
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Declarative Hierarchical Controllers
This paper presents a new general purpose feedback controller for driving a system through complex tasks. The proposed controller, termed Declarative Hierarchical Controller, is based on a theory of knowledge-based controllers developed by the author.
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Hierarchical Control Systems for Autonomous Space Robots
This paper presents a design procedure for hierarchical robot controllers which are representable by a class of automata known as locally finite topological automata.
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A Declarative Theory for Rational Controllers
The theory, which is expressed in terms of first-order predicate logic with some meta-extensions, characterizes the dynamic behavior of an element of the class using equations and inequations that declare the structure of the controller in an algebraic variety V whose algebras satisfy the Central Factorization Principle.
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Multi-Echelon Inventory Planning System I: A Multiple Agent
We provide an outline of a design procedure of a Multiple Agent Hybrid Control Architecture (MAHCA) network for the deployment of a reactive, agent based planner for a single product multi-echelon inventory system.
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Multi-Echelon Inventory Planning System: Multiple Agent Hybrid Control (MAHCA) Implementation
This paper provides a step-by step description of a design procedure of a MAHCA network for the deployment of a reactive, agent based planner for a single product, multi-echelon inventory system.
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Multi-Echelon Inventory Planning System II:Continualization
This is the second of two papers in which we describe a hybrid systems approach to supply chain management problems.
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Enterprise Dynamics Via Non-Equilibrium Membrane Models
This paper describes a distributed dynamic model of enterprise systems via a network of elements which are abstractions of biological membranes.
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Decentralized Dual-Based Algorithm for Computing Optimal Flows in a General Supply Chain
This paper addresses the issue of the optimal ow allocation in general supply chains. Our basic observation is that a distribution channel involving several reselling steps for a particular product can be viewed as a route in a supply chain net- work.
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Control in Hybrid Systems
This is one of a series of papers outlining the theorems and algorithms needed for MAHCA, our multiple agent hybrid control architecture.
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MAHCA Technology
Hybrid Systems are models for networks of digital and continuous devices in which digital control programs sense and supervise continuous and discrete systems governed by differential or difference equations.
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A Hybrid Systems Approach to Computer-Aided Control Engineering
In this article we provide a tutorial-style overview of ideas for a new Computer- Aided Control Engineering (CACE) environment. We discuss these ideas through repetition of two themes.
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Hybrid Dynamic Programming
In this paper we outline the derivation of a hybrid Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman equation for our Multiple Agent Hybrid Control Architecture (MACHA) [5, 4] and a hybrid system dynamic programming methodology.
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Continualization: A Hybrid Systems Control Technique for Computing
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Meta-Control of an optimization algorithm
Optimization algorithms usually rely on the setting of parameters, such as barrier coefficients. We have developed a generic meta-control procedure to optimize the behavior of given iterative optimization algorithms.
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Convergence Analysis of the Hynomics Incremental Optimizer
In this note we analize a perturbation-based optimization algorithm for the implementation of real time incremental repair feedback systems.
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Decentralized Dual-Based Algorithm for ComputingOptimal Flows in a General Supply Chain
This paper addresses the issue of the optimal ow allocation in general supply chains. Our basic observation is that a distribution channel involving several reselling steps for a particular product can be viewed as a route in a supply chain net- work.
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Automaton Comparison Procedure for the Verification of Hybrid Systems
This paper provides a framework for implementing real-time enterprise planning, scheduling and control processes based on information provided by RFID sensing systems.
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Repair-Control of Enterprise Systems Using RFID Sensory Data
This paper provides a framework for implementing real-time enterprise planning, scheduling and control processes based on information provided by RFID sensing systems.
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A New Approach to Generating Finite-State Control Programs for Hybrid Systems
In this article we provide a tutorial-style overview of ideas for a new Computer- Aided Control Engineering (CACE) environment.
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A Hybrid Systems Approach to Computer-Aided Control Engineering
In this article we provide a tutorial-style overview of ideas for a new Computer- Aided Control Engineering (CACE) environment.
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Scalable Data and Sensor Fusion via Multiple-Agent Hybrid Systems
We address the problem of finding an unbiased estimate of the plant state given that the data available is dynamic, noisy, and given in a multiplicity of representations.
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A Mathematical Framework for Asynchronous, Decentralized, Decision-Making Algorithm with Semi-Autonomous Entities: Synthesis, Simulation, and Evaluation
For many military and civilian large-scale, real-world problems of interest, data is first acquired asynchronously, i.e., at irregular intervals of time, at geographically-dispersed sites, processed utilizing decision-making algorithms, and the processed data then disseminated to other appropriate sites.
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Multiple Agent Hybrid Control for Manufacturing Systems
We discuss a fundamental problem in the provision of quality care at acceptable, society-wide costs: the integration of what is now a dichotomy in medical models.
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A Hybrid Systems Approach to Integration of Medical Models
We discuss a fundamental problem in the provision of quality care at acceptable, society-wide costs: the integration of what is now a dichotomy in medical models.
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Intelligent Integration of Medical Models: A Rigorous Approach to Resolving the Dichotomy in Medical Models
Today, the dominant modeling concepts for medical information systems are based on a) “homeostasis” and b) “physical dynamics” — such as those encountered in pharmacology, quantitative pathophysiology, and more recently in immunology.
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Hybrid Systems: Models, Simulation, Testing
Realization of the vision of a synthetic theater of war (STOW) fully depends on the creation of interoperable simulators, simulations, and fielded systems that realistically represent warfighling concepts, doctrine, forces and weapon systems of friendly, neutral and opposing forces.
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Reactive Control of Distributed Interactive Simulations
A network of distributed interactive simulations is a hybrid system, that is, a system described by an amalgamation of logical and evolution models.
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Research Needs in Economic Analysis of Control Design Projects
We outline a new methodology for generating economic plans and budgets for design projects.
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Improving the Pointing Accuracy of Direct-Fire Weapons
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Advanced Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Control Technology
This report presents the first phase of a study for implementing autonomous distributed control for the battlefield problem.
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Multi-Echelon Inventory Planning System I: A Multiple Agent Hybrid Control Implementation
We provide an outline of a design procedure of a Multiple Agent Hybrid Control Architecture (MAHCA) network for the deployment of a reactive, agent based planner for a single product multi-echelon inventory system.
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Multi-Echelon Inventory Planning System: Multiple Agent Hybrid Control (MAHCA) Implementation
This paper provides a constructive procedure for the implementation of a multiechelon single-product optimal, reactive distributed inventory planner.
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Multi-Echelon Inventory Planning System II: Continualization
This is the second of two papers in which we describe a hybrid systems approach to supply chain management problems.
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Entropic Estimator in a General Supply Chain
This paper describes an estimation procedure based on a two-stage schema. The procedure is suitably customized for problems in the areas of enterprise dynamics and of the supply chain management.
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Agent Based Velocity Control of Highway
This paper presents an architecture for the real-time feedback control of hybrid systems through a communication network composed of multiple decision makers herein referred to as agents.
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