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We provide an explicit method to construct dynamical systems which admit an a-priori prescribed attracting set. As application, we provide a method to construct perturbations of conservative dynamical systems, which admit an a-priori…
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Object queries are essential in information seeking and decision making in vast areas of applications. However, a query may involve complex conditions on objects and sets, which can be arbitrarily nested and aliased. The objects and sets…
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