Abstract: This brief presents a class of optimal control for positive systems with linear nonnegative costs. First, a novel approach combining value iteration and policy iteration is presented to ...

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Abstract: Regular integer linear-exponential programming (RegILEP) asks whether a system of inequalities of the form $\sum\nolimits_{i = 1..n} {\left({{a_i}\cdot{x_i} + {b_i}\cdot{2^{{x_i}}}}\right)} ...

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