Title: Time-Critical Cooperative Path-Following Control of Multiple UAVsSpeaker: Prof. Naira HovakimyanAffiliation: Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignLocation: Room 212 William PennyTime: 2:00pmAbstract. Worldwide, there has been growing interest in the use of autonomous vehicles to execute cooperative missions of increasing complexity without constant supervision of human operators. Despite significant... Read more »

Title: Protection at All Levels: Probabilistic Envelope ConstraintsSpeaker: Dr. Xu HuanAffiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering at National University of SingaporeLocation: CPSE Seminar room (C616 Roderic Hill)Time: 2:00pmAbstract. Optimization under chance constraints is a standard approach to ensure that bad events such as portfolio losses, are unlikely to happen. They do nothing, however, to protect more... Read more »

Title: A decision rule approach to medium-term hydropower scheduling under uncertaintySpeaker: Paula RochaAffiliation: Department of Computing - Imperial College LondonLocation: CPSE seminar room (C615 Roderic Hill)Time: 4:00pmAbstract. We present a multistage stochastic optimisation model for the medium-term scheduling of a cascaded hydropower system. Electricity spot prices change on a much shorter time scale than the... Read more »

Title: Robust Pricing of Monopolistic Cloud Computing Services with Service Level AgreementsSpeaker: Vladimir RoitchAffiliation: Department of Computing - Imperial College LondonLocation: CPSE seminar room (C615 Roderic Hill)Time: 4:30pmAbstract. Cloud Computing is a new computing paradigm that gives end-users on-demand access to computing resources of companies that maintain large data centres. Here, we address the optimal... Read more »