Analyzing the impact of filter bubbles on social network polarization

U Chitra, C Musco - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
While social networks have increased the diversity of ideas and information available to
users, they are also blamed for increasing the polarization of user opinions. Eli Pariser's" …

Biconmp: A nonlinear model predictive control framework for whole body motion planning

A Meduri, P Shah, J Viereck, M Khadiv… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online planning of whole-body motions for legged robots is challenging due to the inherent
nonlinearity in the robot dynamics. In this work, we propose a nonlinear model predictive …

Improving full-waveform inversion by wavefield reconstruction with the alternating direction method of multipliers

HS Aghamiry, A Gholami, S Operto - Geophysics, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an iterative nonlinear waveform matching procedure
subject to wave-equation constraint. FWI is highly nonlinear when the wave-equation …

Data‐driven decision‐focused surrogate modeling

R Gupta, Q Zhang - AIChE Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce the concept of decision‐focused surrogate modeling for solving
computationally challenging nonlinear optimization problems in real‐time settings. The …

Dissipativity learning control (DLC): A framework of input–output data-driven control

W Tang, P Daoutidis - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper addresses data-driven control based on input–output data in the absence of an
underlying dynamic model. It proposes a dissipativity learning control (DLC) framework …

Efficient learning of decision-making models: A penalty block coordinate descent algorithm for data-driven inverse optimization

R Gupta, Q Zhang - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Decision-making problems are commonly formulated as optimization problems, which are
then solved to make optimal decisions. In this work, we consider the inverse problem where …

An energy-aware approach for industrial internet of things in 5g pervasive edge computing environment

Q Chen, X Xu, H Jiang, X Liu - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the rapid technological advances, industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has recently
been embraced to enhance autonomous industrial processes. Since a huge diverse traffic …

Nonlinear state-feedback design for vehicle lateral control using sum-of-squares programming

AM Ribeiro, AR Fioravanti, A Moutinho… - Vehicle System …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This work addresses the lateral stabilisation problem of four-wheels ground vehicles. The
objective is to estimate the largest state-space region such that the closed-loop vehicle …

A polynomial blossoming approach to stabilization of periodic time-varying systems

X **e, J Lam, C Fan, X Wang, KW Kwok - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel polynomial blossoming approach to designing stabilizing
controller for a class of periodic time-varying systems. Utilizing multi-convexity of a non …

Understanding filter bubbles and polarization in social networks

U Chitra, C Musco - arxiv preprint arxiv:1906.08772, 2019 - arxiv.org
Recent studies suggest that social media usage--while linked to an increased diversity of
information and perspectives for users--has exacerbated user polarization on many issues …