A general characterization of the stochastic optimal combined control of mean field stochastic systems with application

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 873-880
Author(s):  
Shahlar Meherrem ◽  
Mokhtar Hafayed ◽  
Deniz H. Gucoglu ◽  
Saban Eren
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Systems ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
General Characterization ◽  
Combined Control

Why Does Rationality Matter?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Wedgwood
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
External World ◽  
Dutch Book ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
General Characterization ◽  
Internal Rationality

Internalism implies that rationality requires nothing more than what in the broadest sense counts as ‘coherence’. The earlier chapters of this book argue that rationality is in a strong sense normative. But why does coherence matter? The interpretation of this question is clarified. An answer to the question would involve a general characterization of rationality that makes it intuitively less puzzling why rationality is in this strong sense normative. Various approaches to this question are explored: a deflationary approach, the appeal to ‘Dutch book’ theorems, the idea that rationality is constitutive of the nature of mental states. It is argued that none of these approaches solves the problem. An adequate solution will have to appeal to some value that depends partly on how things are in the external world—in effect, an external goal—and some normatively significant connection between internal rationality and this external goal.

Characterization of Textured Aluminum Lines and Modelling of Stress Voiding

1994 ◽  
Vol 343 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.C. Wardle ◽  
B.L. Adams ◽  
C.S. Nichols ◽  
D.A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Excess Free Energy ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Polycrystalline Structure ◽  
Field Approach ◽  
Bamboo Structure ◽  
Automated Technique ◽  
Theory And Modeling

ABSTRACTIt is well known from studies of individual interfaces that grain boundaries exhibit a spectrum of properties because their structure is misorientation dependent. Usually this variability is neglected and properties are modeled using a mean field approach. The limitations inherent in this approach can be overcome, in principle, using a combination of experimental techniques, theory and modeling. The bamboo structure of an interconnect is a particularly simple polycrystalline structure that can now be readily characterized experimentally and modeled in the computer. The grain misorientations in a [111] textured aluminum line have been measured using the new automated technique of orientational imaging microscopy. By relating boundary angle to diffusivity the expected stress voiding failure processes can be predicted through the link between misorientation angle, grain boundary excess free energy and diffusivity. Consequently it can be shown that the high energy boundaries are the favored failure sites thermodynamically and kinetically.

Practical Steps and Reasons for Action

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Clark
Keyword(s):  
Reasons For Action ◽  
Reasons For Belief ◽  
The Real ◽  
General Characterization ◽  
Practical Inference

There is an idea, going back to Aristotle, that reasons for action can be understood on a parallel with reasons for belief. Not surprisingly, the idea has almost always led to some form of inferentialism about reasons for action. In this paper I argue that reasons for action can be understood on a parallel with reasons for belief, but that this requires abandoning inferentialism about reasons for action. This result will be thought paradoxical. It is generally assumed that if there is to be a useful parallel, there must be some such thing as a practical inference. As we shall see, that assumption tends to block the fruitful exploration of the real parallel. On the view I shall defend, the practical analogue of an ordinary inference is not an inference, but something I shall call a practical step. Nevertheless, the practical step will do, for a theory of reasons for action, what ordinary inference does for an inferentialist theory of reasons for belief. The result is a general characterization of reasons, practical and theoretical, in terms of the correctness conditions of the relevant sorts of step.

Potentiality of Mean-Field Approaches for Recrystallisation: Characterization of the Deformed State of Polycrystals

2004 ◽  
Vol 467-470 ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rénald Brenner ◽  
O. Castelnau ◽  
Brigitte Bacroix
Keyword(s):  
Mean Field ◽  
Mechanical State ◽  
Microstructural Parameters ◽  
Deformed State ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Field Approaches

The description of the mechanical state of a polycrystal is presented in the framework of the mean-field approaches and attention is paid to the fields heterogeneity. For nonlinear behaviours, the importance of the chosen model is emphasized with respect to relevant microstructural parameters for recrystallisation.

scholarly journals Teorías y actitudes escépticas en la Antigüedad

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan A. García González
Keyword(s):  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
General Characterization

RESUMENSe expone en este trabajo una panorámica del escepticismo antiguo, en sus tres fromas más notables: pirronismo, probabilismo y fenomenismo. Después se procede a una caracterización general del escepticismo y se glosa la interpretación hegeliana del mismo.PALABRAS CLAVEESCEPTICISMO, FILOSOFÍA GRIEGAABSTRACTIt is exposed in this work a panoramic of the old scepticism, in their three more remarkable forms: pirronism, probabilism and phenomenism. The you proceeds to a general characterization of the scepticism and is glossed the interpretation hegeliana of the scepticism.KEYWORDSSCEPTICISM, GREEK PHILOSOPHY

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