It will take place in the ITR seminar room, Barerstr. 21.,  at 4 pm on 27.9.2013. Interested students and colleagues are welcome to attend.

Abstract:

In this talk, we introduce generalization of Uzawa's primal-dual algorithm from control theoretical perspective. It is known that Uzawa's method gives a distributed optimization algorithm for resource/product distribution problems or pricing.  We show that the mechanism of the algorithm can be explained through a notion of control

systems: passivity and then introduce its generalization.  We also illustrate its applications to electric power distribution problems.

Short bio:

Koji Tsumura

1992 Graduated from School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Ph.D

1992 Research associate, Chiba University

2000 Associate professor, University of Tokyo member of IEEE, SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers) AE of Asian Journal of Control (2008-2012) paper awards of SICE (2004, 2005, 2010, 2013)