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11 June 2025

The convergence rate of the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) for solving the nonlinear semidefinite optimization problem is studied. Under the Jacobian uniqueness conditions, when a multiplier vector (π,Y) and the penalty parameter σ are ch...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Statistics and Operational Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
735 Views
21 Pages

Day-Ahead Coordinated Reactive Power Optimization Dispatching Based on Semidefinite Programming

  • Binbin Xu,
  • Mengqi Liu,
  • Yilin Zhong,
  • Peijie Cong and ,
  • Bo Zhu,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Yujun Li and
  • Zhengchun Du
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 October 2025

With access to new energy sources, the problem of reactive power optimization and dispatching has become increasingly important for research. However, the reactive power optimization problem is a mixed integer nonlinear optimization problem. In order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,300 Views
18 Pages

7 February 2023

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network has gained vigorous evolution in recent decades by virtue of its advanced nature, and UAV-based localization techniques have been extensively applied in a variety of fields. In most applications, the data cap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Coordination of UAV Swarm Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,151 Views
17 Pages

7 February 2023

The systematic design of exact optimal designs of experiments is typically challenging, as it results in nonconvex optimization problems. The literature on the computation of model-based exact optimal designs of experiments via mathematical programmi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,612 Views
18 Pages

Optimal Design of Experiments for Liquid–Liquid Equilibria Characterization via Semidefinite Programming

  • Belmiro P.M. Duarte,
  • Anthony C. Atkinson,
  • José F.O. Granjo and
  • Nuno M.C. Oliveira

8 November 2019

Liquid–liquid equilibria (LLE) characterization is a task requiring considerable work and appreciable financial resources. Notable savings in time and effort can be achieved when the experimental plans use the methods of the optimal design of e...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,087 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2024

In this article, we investigate a class of non-smooth semidefinite multiobjective programming problems with inequality and equality constraints (in short, NSMPP). We establish the convex separation theorem for the space of symmetric matrices. Employi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Optimization and Control: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,471 Views
18 Pages

An Optimal Polarization SAR Three-Component Target Decomposition Based on Semi-Definite Programming

  • Tingting Wang,
  • Zhiyong Suo,
  • Penghui Jiang,
  • Jingjing Ti and ,
  • Zhiquan Ding and
  • Tianqi Qin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 November 2023

The model-based polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) target decomposition decodes the scattering mechanism of the target by analyzing the essential scattering components. This paper presents a new general three-component scattering power de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
4,587 Views
29 Pages

21 May 2018

The energy reading has been an efficient and attractive measure for collaborative acoustic source localization in practical application due to its cost saving in both energy and computation capability. The maximum likelihood problems by fusing receiv...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,395 Views
17 Pages

14 May 2022

In this paper, we discuss the cone of copositive tensors and its approximation. We describe some basic properties of copositive tensors and positive semidefinite tensors. Specifically, we show that a non-positive tensor (or Z-tensor) is copositive if...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,561 Views
46 Pages

8 November 2023

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are the backbone of smart grids that are able to measure power system observability in real-time. The deployment of synchronized sensors in power networks opens up the advantage of real-time monitoring of the network s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Optimization for Solving Real-World Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,252 Views
19 Pages

An MI-SDP Model for Optimal Location and Sizing of Distributed Generators in DC Grids That Guarantees the Global Optimum

  • Walter Gil-González,
  • Alexander Molina-Cabrera,
  • Oscar Danilo Montoya and
  • Luis Fernando Grisales-Noreña

30 October 2020

This paper deals with a classical problem in power system analysis regarding the optimal location and sizing of distributed generators (DGs) in direct current (DC) distribution networks using the mathematical optimization. This optimization problem i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilient and Sustainable Distributed Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,649 Views
27 Pages

6 November 2025

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)-enabled Roadside Units (RSUs) encounter significant performance trade-offs between target sensing and multi-user communication in complex urban environments, where conventional optimization methods are pron...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,143 Views
22 Pages

6 October 2017

In this paper, we consider multiuser simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for cognitive radio systems where a secondary transmitter (ST) with an antenna array provides information and energy to multiple single-antenna secondar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Radio Sensing and Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
464 Views
35 Pages

2 September 2026

Allocating elective patients to operating rooms (ORs) under uncertain surgery durations and limited historical data requires balancing, opening costs against overtime risk. We develop a data-driven distributionally robust optimization model (DDRO) th...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,237 Views
21 Pages

Measurement Uncertainty for Finite Quantum Observables

  • René Schwonnek,
  • David Reeb and
  • Reinhard F. Werner

Measurement uncertainty relations are lower bounds on the errors of any approximate joint measurement of two or more quantum observables. The aim of this paper is to provide methods to compute optimal bounds of this type. The basic method is semidefi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics of Quantum Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
448 Views
32 Pages

Real-Time Scheduling of V2G Electric Vehicles in Distribution Networks Using SDP-Based Rolling-Horizon Optimization

  • Lingda Kong,
  • Sijun Qin,
  • Jiran Zhu,
  • Mingyu Zhang and ,
  • Zhenzhuo Shan and
  • Yongliang Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 June 2026

This paper develops a real-time rolling-horizon optimization framework based on semidefinite programming (SDP) for vehicle-to-grid (V2G)-enabled electric vehicle (EV) fleets in distribution networks. The model coordinates time-varying EV availability...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,120 Views
22 Pages

Optimization Selection Method of Post-Disaster Wireless Location Detection Equipment Based on Semi-Definite Programming

  • Aihua Hu,
  • Zhongliang Deng,
  • Jianke Li,
  • Yao Zhang and ,
  • Yuhui Gao and
  • Di Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Signal propagation attenuation is greater in the post-disaster collapsed environment than that it is indoor or outdoor. The transmission environment is seriously affected by multi-path and non-line-of-sight transmission. When the signals penetrate th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advanced Control, Applications, and Optimization for WSN and the IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,254 Views
27 Pages

24 October 2023

We investigate a class of challenging general semidefinite programming problems with extra nonconvex constraints such as matrix rank constraints. This problem has extensive applications, including combinatorial graph problems, such as MAX-CUT and com...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,333 Views
17 Pages

Hypertension (HT) is an extreme increment in blood pressure that can prompt a stroke, kidney disease, and heart attack. HT does not show any symptoms at the early stage, but can lead to various cardiovascular diseases. Hence, it is essential to ident...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,455 Views
18 Pages

Wireless location is a supporting technology in many application scenarios of wireless communication systems. Recently, an increasing number of studies have been conducted on range-based elliptical location in a variety of backgrounds. Specifically,...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,378 Views
14 Pages

Global Optimal Stabilization of MT-HVDC Systems: Inverse Optimal Control Approach

  • Oscar Danilo Montoya,
  • Walter Gil-González,
  • Federico Martin Serra,
  • Cristian Hernan De Angelo and
  • Jesus C. Hernández

17 November 2021

The stabilization problem of multi-terminal high-voltage direct current (MT-HVDC) systems feeding constant power loads is addressed in this paper using an inverse optimal control (IOC). A hierarchical control structure using a convex optimization mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,057 Views
15 Pages

24 August 2021

The graph bandwidth problem, where one looks for a labeling of graph vertices that gives the minimum difference between the labels over all edges, is a classical NP-hard problem that has drawn a lot of attention in recent decades. In this paper, we f...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,732 Views
20 Pages

This paper addresses the 3D relative localization problem for two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using a combination of time-of-arrival (TOA) and angle-of-arrival (AOA) measurements across varied flight trajectories. We commenced by examining the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
147 Views
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28 October 2026

In this article, a system of two coupled matrix Riccati differential equations (CMRDEs) arising in connection with mean-field linear quadratic (LQ) control problems is considered. Our aim is to provide conditions that guarantee the existence and uniq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Control Systems, 3rd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,805 Views
14 Pages

14 August 2024

This article proposes a novel robust invariance condition for uncertain linear discrete-time systems with state and control constraints, utilizing a method of semidefinite programming duality. The approach involves approximating the robust invariant...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,858 Views
19 Pages

Semidefinite Multiobjective Mathematical Programming Problems with Vanishing Constraints Using Convexificators

  • Kin Keung Lai,
  • Mohd Hassan,
  • Sanjeev Kumar Singh,
  • Jitendra Kumar Maurya and
  • Shashi Kant Mishra

In this paper, we establish Fritz John stationary conditions for nonsmooth, nonlinear, semidefinite, multiobjective programs with vanishing constraints in terms of convexificator and introduce generalized Cottle type and generalized Guignard type con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optimization and Nonlinear Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,120 Views
20 Pages

A novel algorithm was proposed for solving the max-cut problem, which seeks to identify the cut with the maximum weight in a given graph. Our technique is based on the bundle approach, applied to a newly formulated semidefinite relaxation. This resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,626 Views
14 Pages

Physical Layer Security of the MIMO-NOMA Systems under Near-Field Scenario

  • Xueyu Liu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Wenwu Xie,
  • Yang Cao and
  • Chaojie Fan

In this paper, we propose a secure transmission framework for near-field MIMO-NOMA systems. This architecture integrates beamforming mechanisms for both transmission and reception, allowing the base station to send encrypted information to authorized...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,946 Views
19 Pages

29 February 2024

The techno–environmental analysis of distributed energy resources in electrical distribution networks is a complex optimization task due to the non-convexities of its nonlinear programming formulation. This research employs convex optimization...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,264 Views
14 Pages

18 October 2021

In this paper, we study a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system aided by the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology, where an AP transmits confidential information to the legitimate information receiver (IR) in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Communications for 5G and beyond Wireless Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,399 Views
36 Pages

31 July 2022

This paper considers the problem of finding the position of a passive target using noisy time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements, obtained from multiple transmitters and a single receiver. The maximum likelihood (ML) estimator’s objectiv...

(This article belongs to the Topic Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,846 Views
4 Pages

We present new results concerning simulation of general quantum measurements (POVMs) by projective measurements (PMs) for the task of Unambiguous State Discrimination (USD). We formulate a problem of finding optimal strategy of simulation for given q...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 11th Italian Quantum Information Science conference (IQIS2018))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,751 Views
22 Pages

25 March 2022

We consider a variant of the online semi-definite programming problem (OSDP). Specifically, in our problem, the setting of the decision space is a set of positive semi-definite matrices constrained by two norms in parallel: the L∞ norm to the d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optimization Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,872 Views
21 Pages

28 May 2022

We present two novel results for small damped oscillations described by the vector differential equation Mx¨+Cx˙+Kx=0, where the mass matrix M can be singular, but standard deflation techniques cannot be applied. The first result is a novel...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
663 Views
27 Pages

10 March 2026

In maritime non-terrestrial networks, long-distance links and resource heterogeneity give rise to significant system transmission delays. As an effective mechanism for alleviating link pressure and enhancing efficiency, caching has been widely employ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of 5G Networks and Wireless Communication Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,131 Views
25 Pages

7 February 2025

We devise two algorithms for approximating solutions of PSDisation, a problem in actuarial science and finance, to find the nearest valid correlation matrix that is positive semidefinite (PSD). The first method converts the PSDisation problem with a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,662 Views
16 Pages

13 April 2023

The objective of this paper is to investigate a multi-objective linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem. Specifically, we examine an optimal control problem that minimizes a quadratic cost over a finite time horizon for linear stochastic syst...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
378 Views
17 Pages

2 July 2026

Concept factorization provides an interpretable route to clustering by expressing latent concepts as combinations of observed samples. Its development in multiple kernel settings, however, remains limited when one simultaneously requires kernel valid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Big Data Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,238 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2020

In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing a general quadratic function subject to a quadratic inequality constraint with a fixed number of additional linear inequality constraints. Under a regularity condition, we first introduce two convex q...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Optimization Theory)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,543 Views
11 Pages

The Non-Tightness of a Convex Relaxation to Rotation Recovery

  • Yuval Alfassi,
  • Daniel Keren and
  • Bruce Reznick

5 November 2021

We study the Perspective-n-Point (PNP) problem, which is fundamental in 3D vision, for the recovery of camera translation and rotation. A common solution applies polynomial sum-of-squares (SOS) relaxation techniques via semidefinite programming. Our...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Data Summarization: Theory, Applications, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,854 Views
11 Pages

Optimal Multi-Antenna Transmission for the Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple-Access System

  • Duckdong Hwang,
  • Janghoon Yang,
  • Sung Sik Nam and
  • Hyoung-Kyu Song

3 March 2021

We investigate the beamforming for the multi antenna cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where an access point (AP) delivers messages for multiple user terminals (UT) with successive interference cancellation (SIC) reception met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,264 Views
16 Pages

Robust Quadratic Optimal Control for Discrete-Time Linear Systems with Non-Stochastic Noises

  • Jiaoru Huang,
  • Chaobo Chen,
  • Song Gao,
  • Xiaoyan Zhang and
  • Guo Xie

12 October 2022

In this paper, the quadratic optimal control problem is investigated for the discrete-time linear systems with process and measurement noises which belong to specified ellipsoidal sets. As the noises are non-stochastic, the traditional Kalman filteri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Autonomous Decision-Making and Cooperative Control Technology of High-Speed Vehicle Swarms, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,515 Views
10 Pages

Loophole-free violations of Bell inequalities are crucial for fundamental tests of quantum nonlocality. They are also important for future applications in quantum information processing, such as device-independent quantum key distribution. Based on a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Cryptography and Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,009 Views
10 Pages

Quantifying Quantum Coherence Using Machine Learning Methods

  • Lin Zhang,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Qiliang He and
  • Yeqi Zhang

20 August 2024

Quantum coherence is a crucial resource in numerous quantum processing tasks. The robustness of coherence provides an operational measure of quantum coherence, which can be calculated for various states using semidefinite programming. However, this m...

(This article belongs to the Topic Quantum Information and Quantum Computing, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,264 Views
11 Pages

Doubly Constrained Waveform Optimization for Integrated Sensing and Communications

  • Zhitong Ni,
  • Andrew Jian Zhang,
  • Ren-Ping Liu and
  • Kai Yang

28 June 2023

This paper investigates threshold-constrained joint waveform optimization for an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Unlike existing studies, we employ mutual information (MI) and sum rate (SR) as sensing and communication metrics, re...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,615 Views
19 Pages

29 August 2023

In this paper, we consider a sparse program with symmetric cone constrained parameterized generalized equations (SPSCC). Such a problem is a symmetric cone analogue with vector optimization, and we aim to provide a smoothing framework for dealing wit...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,843 Views
16 Pages

Sizing Energy Storage Systems to Dispatch Wind Power Plants

  • Bingqing Xia,
  • Mingqi Wu,
  • Wenbin Yang,
  • Qing Chen and
  • Ji Xiang

15 May 2024

Integrating wind power plants into the electricity grid poses challenges due to the intermittent nature of wind energy generation. Energy storage systems (ESSs) have shown promise in mitigating the intermittent variability associated with wind power....

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,633 Views
12 Pages

3 January 2024

This paper studies extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO)-empowered integrated sensing and secure communication systems, where both the radar targets and the communication user are located within the near-field region of the t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Communication and Networking Technologies for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,608 Views
20 Pages

Compound Optimum Designs for Clinical Trials in Personalized Medicine

  • Belmiro P. M. Duarte,
  • Anthony C. Atkinson,
  • David Pedrosa and
  • Marlena van Munster

26 September 2024

We consider optimal designs for clinical trials when response variance depends on treatment and covariates are included in the response model. These designs are generalizations of Neyman allocation, and commonly employed in personalized medicine wher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,466 Views
12 Pages

Computing Nearest Correlation Matrix via Low-Rank ODE’s Based Technique

  • Mutti-Ur Rehman,
  • Jehad Alzabut and
  • Kamaleldin Abodayeh

4 November 2020

For n-dimensional real-valued matrix A, the computation of nearest correlation matrix; that is, a symmetric, positive semi-definite, unit diagonal and off-diagonal entries between −1 and 1 is a problem that arises in the finance industry where...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymptotic Properties of Solutions of Difference and Differential Equations)

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