Automatica, Volume 146

Volume 146, December 2022

Regular Papers

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  Xiaoxing Ren, Dewei Li, Yugeng Xi, Haibin Shao:
  An accelerated distributed gradient method with local memory. 110260

Technical Communiques

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  Yoonsoo Kim:
  String stability margin of cyclic vehicle platoons with variable communication range. 110488

Brief Papers

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  Min Xue, Huaicheng Yan, Hao Zhang, Meng Wang, Dan Zhang:
  Dissipative output feedback tracking control of Markov jump systems under compensation scheme. 110535

Corrigendum

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  Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Ugo Rosolia, Yvonne R. Stürz, Xiaojing Zhang, Francesco Borrelli:
  Corrigendum to "Robust MPC for LPV Systems via a Novel Optimization-Based Constraint Tightening" [Automatica 143C (2022) 110459]. 110546

Brief Papers

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  Xin He, Rong Hu, Ya-Ping Fang:
  Fast primal-dual algorithm via dynamical system for a linearly constrained convex optimization problem. 110547

Regular Papers

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  Mani H. Dhullipalla, Hao Yu, Tongwen Chen:
  A framework for distributed control via dynamic periodic event-triggering mechanisms. 110548

Brief Papers

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  Jovan D. Stefanovski:
  Novel results on robust control under structured uncertainties. 110549
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  Dzung Tran, David W. Casbeer, Tansel Yucelen:
  A distributed counting architecture for exploring the structure of anonymous active-passive networks. 110550

Regular Papers

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  Yu Yang, Qing-Shan Jia, Zhanbo Xu, Xiaohong Guan, Costas J. Spanos:
  Proximal ADMM for nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization. 110551

Technical Communiques

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  Ivano Notarnicola, Alessandro Falsone:
  Passivity-based Analysis of the ADMM Algorithm for Constraint-Coupled Optimization. 110552
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  Bohao Zhu, James Lam, Masaki Ogura:
  Log-log convexity of an optimal control problem for positive linear systems. 110553

Brief Papers

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  Joycer Osorio, Mario A. Santillo, Julia Buckland Seeds, Mrdjan Jankovic, Hamid R. Ossareh:
  A novel Reference Governor approach for constraint management of nonlinear systems. 110554
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  Emily A. Reed, Guilherme Ramos, Paul Bogdan, Sérgio Pequito:
  Minimum structural sensor placement for switched linear time-invariant systems and unknown inputs. 110557

Regular Papers

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  Kwassi Holali Degue, Jerome Le Ny, Denis V. Efimov:
  Stealthy attacks and attack-resilient interval observers. 110558

Technical Communiques

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  Dena Firoozi:
  LQG mean field games with a major agent: Nash certainty equivalence versus probabilistic approach. 110559

Brief Papers

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  Zhen-Guo Liu, Lingrong Xue, Zong-Yao Sun:
  A new robust adaptive tracking strategy to uncertain time-delay nonlinear systems with a general form. 110560

Regular Papers

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  Yasin Yazicioglu, Mudassir Shabbir, Waseem Abbas, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos:
  Strong structural controllability of networks: Comparison of bounds using distances and zero forcing. 110562
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  Wei Ren, Raphaël M. Jungers, Dimos V. Dimarogonas:
  Razumikhin and Krasovskii approaches for safe stabilization. 110563

Brief Papers

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  Kedi Xie, Xiao Yu, Weiyao Lan:
  Optimal output regulation for unknown continuous-time linear systems by internal model and adaptive dynamic programming. 110564
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  Xi Zhu, Changjun Yu, Kok Lay Teo:
  Sequential adaptive switching time optimization technique for optimal control problems. 110565

Regular Papers

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  Stefanny Ramirez, Dario Bauso:
  Dynamic coordinated maintenance of wind-farms with risk-averse agents under CVaR criterion. 110568
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  Dong Wang, Zhu Wang, Jie Lian, Wei Wang:
  Surplus-based accelerated algorithms for distributed optimization over directed networks. 110569

Technical Communiques

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  Tran Ngoc Nguyen, Cao Thanh Tinh, Phan Thanh Nam:
  Tighter exponential estimate for positive systems with time delays. 110570

Brief Papers

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  Yi Dong, Zhiyong Chen:
  Fixed-time synchronization of networked uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems. 110571
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  Yi Huang, Ziyang Meng, Jian Sun:
  Scalable distributed least square algorithms for large-scale linear equations via an optimization approach. 110572
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  Ruicheng Ma, Lulu Fu, Jun Fu:
  Prescribed-time tracking control for nonlinear systems with guaranteed performance. 110573

Technical Communiques

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  Alexander Yu. Aleksandrov, Denis V. Efimov:
  Averaging method for the stability analysis of strongly nonlinear mechanical systems. 110576

Brief Papers

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  Gianluca Bianchin, Jorge I. Poveda, Emiliano Dall'Anese:
  Online optimization of switched LTI systems using continuous-time and hybrid accelerated gradient flows. 110579

Regular Papers

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  Ci Chen, Lihua Xie, Kan Xie, Frank L. Lewis, Shengli Xie:
  Adaptive optimal output tracking of continuous-time systems via output-feedback-based reinforcement learning. 110581
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  Zahoor Ahmed, Muhammad Abid Saeed, Ahmadreza Jenabzadeh, Xinli Xu, Weidong Zhang:
  Frequency domain resilient consensus of multi-agent systems under IMP-based and non IMP-based attacks. 110582
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  Yuanqiu Mo, Giorgio Audrito, Soura Dasgupta, Jacob Beal:
  Near-optimal knowledge-free resilient leader election. 110583

Brief Papers

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  Maolong Lv, Zhiyong Chen, Bart De Schutter, Simone Baldi:
  Prescribed-performance tracking for high-power nonlinear dynamics with time-varying unknown control coefficients. 110584

Regular Papers

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  Xiang Xu, Lu Liu, Gang Feng:
  Lyapunov characterizations on input-to-state stability of nonlinear systems with infinite delays. 110585
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  Abdullah Al Maruf, Sandip Roy:
  Observability-blocking control using sparser and regional feedback for network synchronization processes. 110586

Brief Papers

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  Jackeline Abad Torres, Sandip Roy:
  A two-layer transformation for zeros analysis of networked dynamical systems. 110587
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  Fernando Daniel Bianchi, Ricardo S. Sánchez Peña:
  A method for reducing implementation complexity in linear parameter-varying controllers. 110588
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  Federico Bianchi, Alessandro Falsone, Luigi Piroddi, Maria Prandini:
  A constrained clustering approach to bounded-error identification of switched and piecewise affine systems. 110589
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  Deming Yuan, Baoyong Zhang, Daniel W. C. Ho, Wei Xing Zheng, Shengyuan Xu:
  Distributed online bandit optimization under random quantization. 110590
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  Fangzhou Fu, Dayi Wang, Wenbo Li, Dong Zhao, Zhigang Wu:
  Overall fault diagnosability evaluation for dynamic systems: A quantitative-qualitative approach. 110591

Regular Papers

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  Cong Zhang, Jiahu Qin, Heng Li, Yaonan Wang, Shi Wang, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Consensus-based distributed two-target tracking over wireless sensor networks. 110593
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  Yongxiao Tian, Huaicheng Yan, Hao Zhang, Meng Wang, Jianjun Yi:
  Time-varying gain controller synthesis of piecewise homogeneous semi-Markov jump linear systems. 110594
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  Shaun Sweeney, Hugo Lhachemi, Andrew Mannion, Giovanni Russo, Robert Shorten:
  Pitchfork-bifurcation-based competitive and collaborative control of an E-bike system. 110595

Brief Papers

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  Emilio Molina, Alain Rapaport:
  An optimal feedback control that minimizes the epidemic peak in the SIR model under a budget constraint. 110596
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  Javier A. Gallegos, Norelys Aguila-Camacho:
  Necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence of DREM-based estimators with applications in adaptive control. 110597

Regular Papers

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  Sebastien Gros, Mario Zanon:
  Learning for MPC with stability & safety guarantees. 110598
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  Giacomo Baggio, Algo Carè, Anna Scampicchio, Gianluigi Pillonetto:
  Bayesian frequentist bounds for machine learning and system identification. 110599

Brief Papers

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  Twan Keijzer, Riccardo M. G. Ferrari:
  Threshold design for fault detection with first order sliding mode observers. 110600

Regular Papers

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  Sebastien Gros, Mario Zanon:
  Economic MPC of Markov Decision Processes: Dissipativity in undiscounted infinite-horizon optimal control. 110602

Brief Papers

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  Di Zhao, Chao Chen, Sei Zhen Khong:
  A frequency-domain approach to nonlinear negative imaginary systems analysis. 110604

Regular Papers

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  Liangming Chen, Lihua Xie, Xiaolei Li, Xu Fang, Mir Feroskhan:
  Simultaneous localization and formation using angle-only measurements in 2D. 110605

Brief Papers

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  Pietro Lorenzetti, George Weiss:
  PI control of stable nonlinear plants using projected dynamical systems. 110606

Regular Papers

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  Yan-Wu Wang, Ze-Hong Zeng, Xiaokang Liu, Zhi-Wei Liu:
  Input-to-state stability of switched linear systems with unstabilizable modes under DoS attacks. 110607

Survey Paper

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  Abolfazl Lavaei, Sadegh Soudjani, Alessandro Abate, Majid Zamani:
  Automated verification and synthesis of stochastic hybrid systems: A survey. 110617

Brief Papers

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  Zhihua Zhang, Ping Zhang, Thomas Leifeld:
  Reduced-order observer design for fault diagnosis of Boolean control networks. 110618

Regular Papers

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  Bing-Chang Wang, Huanshui Zhang, Ji-Feng Zhang:
  Linear quadratic mean field social control with common noise: A directly decoupling method. 110619
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  Wenceslao Shaw-Cortez, Dimos V. Dimarogonas:
  Safe-by-design control for Euler-Lagrange systems. 110620
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  Apostolos I. Rikos, Christoforos N. Hadjicostis, Karl Henrik Johansson:
  Non-oscillating quantized average consensus over dynamic directed topologies. 110621
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  Anastasia Nikolakopoulou, Moo Sun Hong, Richard D. Braatz:
  Dynamic state feedback controller and observer design for dynamic artificial neural network models. 110622
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  Zaiwei Chen, Sheng Zhang, Thinh T. Doan, John-Paul Clarke, Siva Theja Maguluri:
  Finite-sample analysis of nonlinear stochastic approximation with applications in reinforcement learning. 110623

Brief Papers

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  Thiago Alves Lima, Valessa V. Viana, Bismark C. Torrico, Fabricio Gonzalez Nogueira, Diego de S. Madeira:
  Newton-series-based observer-predictor control for disturbed input-delayed discrete-time systems. 110624
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  Zibo Miao, Dong He, He Kong, Ai-Guo Wu, Matthew R. James:
  Coherent strong observers for a class of linear quantum stochastic systems with unknown inputs. 110625
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  Florent Koudohode, Lucie Baudouin, Sophie Tarbouriech:
  Event-based control of a damped linear wave equation. 110627
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  Peihu Duan, Lidong He, Lingying Huang, Guanrong Chen, Ling Shi:
  Sensor scheduling design for complex networks under a distributed state estimation framework. 110628
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  Yu Zhang, Zhuo Jin, Jiaqin Wei, George Yin:
  Mean-variance portfolio selection with dynamic attention behavior in a hidden Markov model. 110629

Regular Papers

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  Elena S. Dimitrova, Brandilyn Stigler, Claus Kadelka, David Murrugarra:
  Revealing the canalizing structure of Boolean functions: Algorithms and applications. 110630
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  Guitao Yang, Angelo Barboni, Hamed Rezaee, Thomas Parisini:
  State estimation using a network of distributed observers with unknown inputs. 110631

Brief Papers

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  Runqiu Yang, Xinfu Liu:
  Reachable set computation of linear systems with nonconvex constraints via convex optimization. 110632

Regular Papers

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  Lili Wang, Ji Liu, A. Stephen Morse:
  A hybrid observer for estimating the state of a distributed linear system. 110633

Brief Papers

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  Pravin Behera, Arnab Dey, Sourav Patra:
  Control of negative imaginary systems exploiting a dissipative characterization. 110634
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  Yuan Liu, Qiang Ling:
  Stabilizing bit rate conditions for a scalar linear event-triggered system with Markov dropouts. 110635

Regular Papers

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  Bhargav Jha, Zheng Chen, Tal Shima:
  Time-optimal Dubins trajectory for moving obstacle avoidance. 110637
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  Li Deng, Zhan Shu, Tongwen Chen:
  Event-triggered robust model predictive control with stochastic event verification. 110638

Brief Papers

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  Bowen Yi, Chi Jin, Ian R. Manchester:
  Globally convergent visual-feature range estimation with biased inertial measurements. 110639
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  Yu-Long Zhang, Jun-Min Wang:
  Static feedback stabilization of a rotating disk-cable system with measurements from each boundary. 110640
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  Congran Zhao, Wei Lin:
  Homogeneous output feedback design for time-delay nonlinear integrators and beyond: An emulation. 110641
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  Zongyi Guo, David Henry, Jianguo Guo, Zheng Wang, Jérôme Cieslak, Jing Chang:
  Control for systems with prescribed performance guarantees: An alternative interval theory-based approach. 110642

Regular Papers

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  Harshat Kumar, Santiago Paternain, Alejandro Ribeiro:
  Navigation of a quadratic potential with ellipsoidal obstacles. 110643
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  Mengqi Xue, Yang Tang, Wei Ren, Feng Qian:
  Stability of multi-dimensional switched systems with an application to open multi-agent systems. 110644

Brief Papers

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  Housheng Su, Qiuju Xu:
  Deployment of second-order networked mobile agents over a smooth curve. 110645

Regular Papers

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  Kazumune Hashimoto, Adnane Saoud, Masako Kishida, Toshimitsu Ushio, Dimos V. Dimarogonas:
  Learning-based symbolic abstractions for nonlinear control systems. 110646

Brief Papers

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  Yuta Sakurai, Yutaka Hori:
  Interval analysis of worst-case stationary moments for stochastic chemical reactions with uncertain parameters. 110647

Regular Papers

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  Fan Wu, Mario Eduardo Villanueva, Boris Houska:
  Ambiguity tube MPC. 110648

Brief Papers

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  Mateus de Freitas Virgilio Pereira, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky, Carlos E. S. Cesnik:
  Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with aggregated constraints. 110649

Regular Papers

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  Yafei Lu, Chuanhou Gao, Denis Dochain:
  Chemical reaction network decomposition technique for stability analysis. 110650

Brief Papers

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  Ruslan Seifullaev, Steffi Knorn, Anders Ahlén:
  Event-triggered control of systems with sector-bounded nonlinearities and intermittent packet transmissions. 110651

Regular Papers

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  Erfan Nozari, Robert Planas, Jorge Cortés:
  Structural characterization of oscillations in brain networks with rate dynamics. 110653

Brief Papers

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  András Retzler, Bence Cseppento, Jan Swevers, Joris Gillis, László Leitold, Zsolt Kollár:
  Improved crest factor minimization of multisine excitation signals using nonlinear optimization. 110654
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  Fuguo Xu, Qiaobin Fu, Tielong Shen:
  PMP-based numerical solution for mean field game problem of general nonlinear system. 110655
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  Changran He, Jie Huang:
  Leader-following consensus of multiple rigid body systems by a sampled-data distributed observer. 110658

Regular Papers

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  Muhammad F. Emzir, Matthew J. Woolley, Ian R. Petersen:
  Stability analysis of quantum systems: A Lyapunov criterion and an invariance principle. 110660
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  Saeid Jafari, Ketan Savla:
  A decentralized feedback approach for flow control in highway traffic networks. 110661

Brief Papers

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  Mattia Mattioni, Alessio Moreschini, Salvatore Monaco, Dorothée Normand-Cyrot:
  Discrete-time energy-balance passivity-based control. 110662

Regular Papers

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  Yijun Chen, Razibul Islam, Elizabeth L. Ratnam, Ian R. Petersen, Guodong Shi:
  Competitive equilibriums and social shaping for multi-agent systems. 110663
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  Yun Li, Kaixun Hua, Yankai Cao:
  Using stochastic programming to train neural network approximation of nonlinear MPC laws. 110665

Brief Papers

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  Gianluigi Pillonetto, Akram Yazdani:
  Sparse estimation in linear dynamic networks using the stable spline horseshoe prior. 110666
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  Siyuan Zhan, Wen-Hua Chen, Thomas Steffen, John V. Ringwood:
  Computationally efficient infinite-horizon indefinite model predictive control with disturbance preview information. 110667