Applying quantifier elimination to problems in simulation and optimization:

Abstract: "We present a highly optimized method for the elimination of linear variables from a boolean combination of polynomial equations and inequalities. In contrast to the basic method described in [Loos & Weispfenning] the practical applicability of the present method goes far beyond t...

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Main Author: Weispfenning, Volker 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Passau 1996
Series:MIP / Universität Passau, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik 1996,07
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Summary:Abstract: "We present a highly optimized method for the elimination of linear variables from a boolean combination of polynomial equations and inequalities. In contrast to the basic method described in [Loos & Weispfenning] the practical applicability of the present method goes far beyond the more academic examples presented in [Loos & Weispfenning]. The optimization is achieved by various strategies to prune superfluous branches in the elimination tree constructed by the method. The main application concern the simulation of large networks of (electric, mechanical or hydraulic) components, whose characteristic curves are with piecewise linear in the variables to be eliminated. A typical goal in technical applications is to determine admissible ranges for certain variables from given ranges of other variables. By keeping certain characteristics of the components parametric, the elimination result can then be used to detect malfunction of certain components solely from the output behaviour of the network. The algorithms are currently used in a commercial software system for industrial applications. Moreover, we extend the elimination method for parametric linear programming in [Weispfenning 2] to the non-convex case by allowing arbitrary and-or combinations of parametric linear inequalities as constraints. We present a new strategy for finding smaller elimination sets and thus smaller elimination trees for parametric linear programming. Some benchmark examples from the NETLIB library of LP problems show the significance of this strategy even for convex linear programming problems."
Physical Description:22, 4 S.

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