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Policy-based Exploration of Equilibrium Representations (PEER): A topology grammar for generative conceptual structural design

Design exploration is a creative process that consists of the incremental generation of design candidates. Supported by digital means or not, the process handles the ill-structured nature of design and allows creativity to flourish through diversity of des ...

EPFL2022

Yapa: Accelerated Proximal Algorithm For Convex Composite Problems

Mireille El Gheche, Giovanni Chierchia

Proximal splitting methods are standard tools for nonsmooth optimization. While primal-dual methods have become very popular in the last decade for their flexibility, primal methods may still be preferred for two reasons: acceleration schemes are more effe ...

IEEE2021

From Data to Decisions: Distributionally Robust Optimization is Optimal

Daniel Kuhn, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

We study stochastic programs where the decision-maker cannot observe the distribution of the exogenous uncertainties but has access to a finite set of independent samples from this distribution. In this setting, the goal is to find a procedure that transfo ...

2020

Real-Time Optimization of Interconnected Systems via Modifier Adaptation, with Application to Gas-Compressor Stations

Predrag Milosavljevic

The process industries are characterized by a large number of continuously operating plants, for which optimal operation is of economic and ecological importance. Many industrial systems can be regarded as an arrangement of several subsystems, where outp ...

EPFL2018

Interior Point Decomposition for Multi-Agent Optimization

Colin Neil Jones, Altug Bitlislioglu, Ivan Pejcic

In this paper we present the application of the interior-point decomposition (IPD) method, which was originally formulated for stochastic programming, to optimization problems involving multiple agents that are coupled through constraints and objectives. I ...

2017

A concept of wireless and passive very-high temperature sensor

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Andrea Mazzalai

There is a need for sensors capable operating at temperatures above 1000 degrees C. We describe an innovative sensor that might achieve this goal. The sensor comprises two main elements: a thermocouple and a surface acoustic wave (SAW) strain sensor. The c ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Current Trends in Multidrug Optimization: An Alley of Future Successful Treatment of Complex Disorders

Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska

The identification of effective and long-lasting cancer therapies still remains elusive, partially due to patient and tumor heterogeneity, acquired drug resistance, and single-drug dose-limiting toxicities. The use of drug combinations may help to overcome ...

Sage Publications Inc2017

Single Neuron Optimization as a Basis for Accurate Biophysical Modeling : The Case of Cerebellar Granule Cells

Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Stefano Masoli, Egidio D'Angelo

In realistic neuronal modeling, once the ionic channel complement has been defined, the maximum ionic conductance (Gi-max) values need to be tuned in order to match the firing pattern revealed by electrophysiological recordings. Recently, selection/mutatio ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

Splitting Methods for Distributed Optimization and Control

Ye Pu

This thesis contributes towards the design and analysis of fast and distributed optimization algorithms based on splitting techniques, such as proximal gradient methods or alternation minimization algorithms, with the application of solving model predictiv ...

EPFL2016

Trace-based manycore partitioning of stream-processing applications

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

Application performance on these processor array platforms is highly sensitive to how functionality is physically placed on the device, as this choice crucially determines communication latencies and congestion patterns of the on-chip inter-core communicat ...

2016

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