Tsukuba, Japan—Distributed constraint optimization problems are crucial for modeling cooperative-multiagent systems. Asynchronous Distributed OPTimization (ADOPT) is a well-known algorithm for solving ...
American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 138, No. 2 (April 2016), pp. 499-527 (29 pages) This paper deals with some geometrical properties of solutions of some semilinear elliptic equations in bounded ...
In this paper we describe two episodes of instructional interaction, in which examples are used in order to help students face their misconceptions. We introduce the notions of pivotal example and ...