MS7 Max Algebra

Organizers: Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin, and Peter Butkovic, University of Birmingham, UK

MS7 Monday Morning

10:45 Using max-plus eigenvalues to bound the roots of a polynomial
Gaubert, Stephane
INRIA, Paris, France
(with Marianne Akian (INRIA)and Adrien Brandejsky (ENS Cachan))

11:10 Bounds for the Perron root using max eigenvalues
van den Driessche, Pauline
University of Victoria, Canada
(with Elsner, Ludwig)

11:35 Max-Plus Bases, Cornices and Pruning
McEneaney, William
University of California, San Diego, USA

12:00 Solving two-sided (max,plus)-linear equation systems
Zimmermann, Karel
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

12:25 NP-hard problems in extremal algebras tackled by particle swarm optimization
Ponce, Daniela
University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
(with Gavalec, Martin)

MS7 Tuesday Afternoon

16:55 On Steady State Controller in Min-Plus Algebra
Boimond, Jean-Louis
University Angers, France
(with S. Lahaye)

17:20 On Kleene stars and intersection of finitely generated semimodules
Sergeev, Sergey
University of Birmingham, UK

17:45 Semi-group of matrices acting on the max-plus projective space
Merlet, Glenn
LIAFA CNRS-Universite Paris-Diderot, France

18:10 On the permuted max-algebraic eigenvector problem
Butkovic, Peter
University of Birmingham, UK

18:35

MS7 Wednesday Morning

10:35 Max-min convexity
Singer, Ivan
Institute of Mathematics, Bucharest, Romania

11:00 Robust stability of positive difference equations
Loiseau, Jean Jacques
University Nantes, France
(with M. Di Loreto)

11:25 Permuted max-min eigenvector problem
Gavalec, Martin
University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
(with J. Plavka)

11:50 On the robustness of matrices in max-min algebra
Plavka, Jan
Technical University Kosice, Slovakia

12:15 Nonnegative linear algebra and max linear algebra: where's the difference?
Schneider, Hans
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA