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Improving the Asymmetric TSP by Considering Graph Structure
Recent works on cost based relaxations have improved Constraint Programming
(CP) models for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We provide a short survey
over solving asymmetric TSP with CP. Then, we suggest new implied propagators
based on general graph properties. We experimentally show that such implied
propagators bring robustness to pathological instances and highlight the fact
that graph structure can significantly improve search heuristics behavior.
Finally, we show that our approach outperforms current state of the art
results.Comment: Technical repor
Systemic design of multidisciplinary electrical energy devices: a pedagogical approach
In this paper, we present a complete educative project for illustrating the design and the analysis of hybrid electrical systems. It is based on the study of an ElectroHydrostatic Actuator for flight control application, fed by a power supply associating a PEM fuel cell with a ultracapacitor storage. This system is controlled to achieve a typical energy management strategy of this multi source structure.
Step by step, student can faces typical issues relative to the design of heterogenous and multidisciplinary devices by achieving eight pedagogical objectives. These eight targets are focused on methodological approach for multi domain modelling (Bond Graphs), causal analysis, but also on simulation of complex heterogeneous systems. A typical hybrid system feeding an ElectroHydrostatic Actuator (EHA) for flight control application has to be designed which drives students towards other pedagogical objectives: system based device sizing (fuel cell and ultracapacitor), energy management, system analysis
Asymptotic Properties of Optimal Trajectories in Dynamic Programming
We prove in a dynamic programming framework that uniform convergence of the
finite horizon values implies that asymptotically the average accumulated
payoff is constant on optimal trajectories. We analyze and discuss several
possible extensions to two-person games.Comment: 9 page
Dynamical evolution of the Gliese 436 planetary system - Kozai migration as a potential source for Gliese 436b's eccentricity
The close-in planet orbiting GJ 436 presents a puzzling orbital eccentricity
considering its very short orbital period. Given the age of the system, this
planet should have been tidally circularized a long time ago. Many attempts to
explain this were proposed in recent years, either involving abnormally weak
tides, or the perturbing action of a distant companion. We address here the
latter issue based on Kozai migration. We propose that GJ 436b was formerly
located further away from the star and that it underwent a migration induced by
a massive, inclined perturber via Kozai mechanism. In this context, the
perturbations by the companion trigger high amplitude variations to GJ 436b
that cause tides to act at periastron. Then the orbit tidally shrinks to reach
its present day location. We numerically integrate the 3-body system including
tides and General Relativity correction. We first show that starting from the
present-day location of GJ 436b inevitably leads to damping the Kozai
oscillations and to rapidly circularizing the planet. Conversely, starting from
5-10 times further away allows the onset of Kozai cycles. The tides act in peak
eccentricity phases and reduce the semi-major axis of the planet. The net
result is an evolution characterized by two phases: a first one with Kozai
cycles and a slowly shrinking semi-major axis, and a second one once the planet
gets out of the Kozai resonance characterized by a more rapid decrease. The
timescale of this process appears in most cases much longer than the standard
circularization time of the planet by a factor larger than 50. This model can
provide a solution to the eccentricity paradox of GJ 436b. Depending on the
various orbital configurations, it can take several Gyrs to GJ 436b to achieve
a full orbital decrease and circularization. According to this scenario, we
could be witnessing today the second phase of the scenario where the semi-major
axis is already reduced while the eccentricity is still significant. We then
explore the parameter space and derive in which conditions this model can be
realistic given the age of the system. This yields constraints on the
characteristics of the putative companion.Comment: 13 pages To appear in Astronomy \& Astrophysic
A dynamic gradient approach to Pareto optimization with nonsmooth convex objective functions
In a general Hilbert framework, we consider continuous gradient-like
dynamical systems for constrained multiobjective optimization involving
non-smooth convex objective functions. Our approach is in the line of a
previous work where was considered the case of convex di erentiable objective
functions. Based on the Yosida regularization of the subdi erential operators
involved in the system, we obtain the existence of strong global trajectories.
We prove a descent property for each objective function, and the convergence of
trajectories to weak Pareto minima. This approach provides a dynamical
endogenous weighting of the objective functions. Applications are given to
cooperative games, inverse problems, and numerical multiobjective optimization
Side-slipping of a radiating particle
Radiation reaction is revisited, first in a new classical aproach, where the
physical particle 4-momentum is redefined as the energy-momentum flux across
the future light cone and is not parallel to the 4-velocity. Then in a
semi-classical approach, it is shown that, when emitting a photon, the particle
"side-slips" transversaly to its initial momentum, justifying the
non-colinearity between momentum and mean velocity. Side-slipping is finally
checked in a pure quantum mechanical treatment of synchrotron radiation.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures. presented at the Int. Conf. QEDSP 2001, dedicated
to the 90th anniversary of A.I.Akhiezer, Kharkov (Ukraine) Oct. 30 - Nov. 3,
2001 To appear in the proceeding
Homogenization approach to the behavior of suspensions of noncolloidal particles in yield stress fluids
The behavior of suspensions of rigid particles in a non-Newtonian fluid is
studied in the framework of a nonlinear homogenization method. Estimates for
the overall properties of the composite material are obtained. In the case of a
Herschel-Bulkley suspending fluid, it is shown that the properties of a
suspension with overall isotropy can be satisfactory modeled as that of a
Herschel-Bulkley fluid with an exponent equal to that of the suspending fluid.
Estimates for the yield stress and the consistency at large strain rate levels
are proposed. These estimates compare well to both experimental data obtained
by Mahaut et al [J. Rheol. 52, 287-313 (2008)] and to experimental data found
in the literature
Foreign policy and the politics of alterity: A dialogical understanding of International Relations
Tratando específicamente de no caer ni en el eclecticismo ni en la redundancia, este artículo
tiene por objetivo desarrollar una perspectiva dialógica de las Relaciones Internacionales
en el ámbito metateórico del constructivismo. La idea de dialogismo sostiene que el
mundo social se construye por medio del entrelazamiento de discursos entre varios
interlocutores que se responden los unos a los otros. Del mismo modo, proporciona una
herramienta interpretativa, el enfoque hermenéutico, que permite concebir la identidad
de los interlocutores como un factor en las RRII por medio de la diferenciación entre su
expresividad, la contextualidad y la relacionabilidad. El presente artículo, que aborda más
detenidamente los conceptos de la identidad y la formación de la identidad en la disciplina
de las RRII, comprende la identidad nacional como un aspecto que se refleja en un factor
concreto de la política exterior: la política de alteridad. Basando mi enfoque en las obras del
intelectual ruso Mijaíl Mijáilovich Bajtín, en la primera parte del artículo defino cómo hemos
de entender el dialogismo y su noción constitutiva de la exterioridad. La segunda parte está
dedicada a la integración de facto del concepto del dialogismo en la disciplina de las RRII.
Un ejemplo tomado de la política interior y exterior japonesa anterior a la Segunda Guerra
Mundial nos facilita además la comprensión del argumento teórico sobre la relación entre lo
nacional y lo internacional en una política de alteridadTrying specifically not to fall into either eclecticism or redundancy, this paper is an attempt
to develop a dialogical understanding of international relations within the meta-theoretical
field of constructivism. Dialogism holds that the social world is constructed through an
interweaving of mutually-responsive discourses between several agents. Further, it provides
an interpretative tool, the hermeneutical locus, to understand agents’ identities as a factor
in international relations by discerning their expressivity, contextuality and relationality.
Dealing more closely with the questions of identity and identity formation within the
discipline of International Relations, the paper further regards national identity as a factor
which is expressed in a particular aspect of foreign policy: the politics of alterity. Grounding
my approach in the works of the Russian intellectual Mikhail Mikhailovitch Bakhtin, in the
first part of the paper I define what is to be understood by dialogism and its constitutive
notion of transgredience. The second part is dedicated to the actual integration of dialogism
within the discipline of International Relations. An example drawn from Japanese domestic
and foreign policy prior to the Second World War further facilitates the comprehension of
the theoretical argument concerning the link between the national and the international in
a politics of alterit
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