This paper reviews much of the scientific literature on the market for corporate control. The evidence indicates that corporate takeovers generate positive gains, that target firm shareholders benefit, and that bidding firm shareholders do not lose. The gains created by corporate takeovers do

This paper describes a system for the evolution and co-evolution of virtual creatures that compete in physically simulated three-dimensional worlds. Pairs of individuals enter one-on-one contests in which they contend to gain control of a common resource. The winners receive higher relative fitness

This paper discusses the essential equivalence of second order impedance control with force feedback and proportional gain explicit force control with force feedforward. This is first done analytically by reviewing each control method and showing how they mathematically correspond for constrained

The use of space-division multiple access (SDMA) in the downlink of a multiuser multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications network can provide a substantial gain in system throughput. The challenge in such multiuser systems is designing transmit vectors while considering the co

This article discusses the essential equivalence of second-order impedance control with force feedback and proportional gain explicit force control with force feedforward. This is first done analytically by reviewing each control method and showing how they mathematically correspond for constrained

In computer animation, a common technique for tracking the motion of characters is the proportional-derivative (PD) controller. In this paper, we introduce a new formulation of the PD controller that allows arbitrarily high gains, even at large time steps. The key to our approach is to determine

type of perceived control that is generally over-looked. People attempt to gain control not only by bringing the environment into line with their wishes (primary control) but also by bringing themselves into line with environmental forces (secondary control). Four manifestations of secondary control

. Here, a gain scheduling design, based on Proportional-Integral-Plus (PIP) control methods, is utilised to regulate the highly nonlinear joint dynamics. Simulation and initial field tests both demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed technique, with the excavator arm directed along specified

two different compromises to this tradeoff: the algorithm modifies conventional consensus by forcing the weights to satisfy a persistence condition (slowly decaying to zero;) and the algorithm where the weights are constant but consensus is run for a fixed number of iterations, then it is restarted

the attacker to detect vulnerabilities in the user’s applications and force the download a multitude of malware binaries. Frequently, this malware allows the adversary to gain full control of the compromised systems leading to the ex-filtration of sensitive information or installation of utilities