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PowerDynamics.jl is an Open-Source library for dynamic power grid modeling built in the latest scientific programming language, Julia. It provides all the tools necessary to analyze the dynamical stability of power grids with high share of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Tim Kittel , Sabine Auer , Christina Horn

Regions of nested loops are a common feature of High Performance Computing (HPC) codes. In shared memory programming models, such as OpenMP, these structure are the most common source of parallelism. Parallelising these structures requires…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Adrian Jackson , Orestis Agathokleous

Algorithms are ways of mapping problems to solutions. An algorithm is invertible precisely when this mapping is injective, such that the initial problem can be uniquely inferred from its solution. While invertible algorithms can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Joachim Tilsted Kristensen , Robin Kaarsgaard , Michael Kirkedal Thomsen

Progressive Hedging is a popular decomposition algorithm for solving multi-stage stochastic optimization problems. A computational bottleneck of this algorithm is that all scenario subproblems have to be solved at each iteration. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Gilles Bareilles , Yassine Laguel , Dmitry Grishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

In this paper, we propose a framework based on the Retrospective Approximation (RA) paradigm to solve optimization problems with a stochastic objective function and general nonlinear deterministic constraints. This framework sequentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

Multiobjective stochastic programming is a field well located to tackle problems arising in emergencies, given that uncertainty and multiple objectives are usually present in such problems. A new concept of solution is proposed in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Javier León , Justo Puerto , Begoña Vitoriano

Stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) represent a very active research field with numerous recent developments and breakthrough results. There are several well-established approaches and methods used to construct solutions for…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Christian Kuehn , Alexandra Neamtu

Several attempts to dampen the curse of dimensionnality problem of the Dynamic Programming approach for solving multistage optimization problems have been investigated. One popular way to address this issue is the Stochastic Dual Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Marianne Akian , Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Benoît Tran

The Markov decision process (MDP) formulation used to model many real-world sequential decision making problems does not efficiently capture the setting where the set of available decisions (actions) at each time step is stochastic.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yash Chandak , Georgios Theocharous , Blossom Metevier , Philip S. Thomas

Markov decisions processes (MDPs) are becoming increasing popular as models of decision theoretic planning. While traditional dynamic programming methods perform well for problems with small state spaces, structured methods are needed for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Jesse Hoey , Robert St-Aubin , Alan Hu , Craig Boutilier

Real life problems such as scheduling meeting between people at different locations can be modelled as distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Suitable and satisfactory solutions can then be found using constraint satisfaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Ibrahim Adeyanju

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the value functional is defined by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) under $\tilde{G}$-expectation. Under standard assumptions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaojuan Li

We present new algorithms and fast implementations to find efficient approximations for modelling stochastic processes. For many numerical computations it is essential to develop finite approximations for stochastic processes. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Kipngeno Benard Kirui , Georg Ch. Pflug , Alois Pichler

We consider the Reactive Programming (RP) approach to simulate physical systems. The choice of RP is motivated by the fact that RP genuinely offers logical parallelism, instantaneously broadcast events, and dynamic creation/destruction of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Frédéric Boussinot , Bernard Monasse , Jean-Ferdy Susini

We construct an abstract framework in which the dynamic programming principle (DPP) can be readily proven. It encompasses a broad range of common stochastic control problems in the weak formulation, and deals with problems in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Roman Fayvisovich , Gordan Zitkovic

A semidefinite program (SDP) is a particular kind of convex optimization problem with applications in operations research, combinatorial optimization, quantum information science, and beyond. In this work, we propose variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Dhrumil Patel , Patrick J. Coles , Mark M. Wilde

Stochastic Optimization is a cornerstone of operations research, providing a framework to solve optimization problems under uncertainty. Despite the development of numerous algorithms to tackle these problems, several persistent challenges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Di Zhang , Suvrajeet Sen

We investigate the dual of a Multistage Stochastic Linear Program (MSLP) to study two questions for this class of problems. The first of these questions is the study of the optimal value of the problem as a function of the involved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Vincent Guigues , Alexander Shapiro , Yi Cheng

Since decade understanding of programs has become a compulsory task for the students as well as for others who are involved in the process of developing software and providing solutions to open problems. In that aspect showing the problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum

We introduce a general stochastic differential equation framework for modelling multiobjective optimization dynamics in iterative Large Language Model (LLM) interactions. Our framework captures the inherent stochasticity of LLM responses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shivani Shukla , Himanshu Joshi