Milorad Krstic

Nel 1689, sulla scena danubiana della guerra russo-turca, si incontrano tre uomini: Avram Branković, che raccoglie vecchi scritti, l’insegnante turco di liuto Jusuf Masudi e l’ebreo Samuel Coen. Si sono visti nei sogni, si sono a lungo cercati e, quando si trovano, perdono la vita. Trecento anni più tardi tre studiosi si radunano a Istanbul: un egiziano, uno jugoslavo e un’ebrea polacca. I tre, come i loro predecessori, hanno a che fare con i Chazari, un popolo di origine incerta che tra il VII e il X secolo si era stabilito sul Mar Caspio. La leggenda narra che il loro sovrano, il kagan, avesse convocato i rappresentanti delle tre grandi religioni perché lo convincessero a convertirsi… Antologia dei sogni, manuale cabalistico, labirinto, gioco di specchi, romanzo d’avventure: il Dizionario dei Chazari è tutto questo e molto altro..

An up-close look at the theory behind and application of extremum seeking. Originally developed as a method of adaptive control for hard-to-model systems, extremum seeking solves some of the same problems as today's neural network techniques, but in a more rigorous and practical way. Following the resurgence in popularity of extremum-seeking control in aerospace and automotive engineering, Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control presents the theoretical foundations and selected applications of this method of real-time optimization.

An up-close look at the theory behind and application of extremum seeking
Originally developed as a method of adaptive control for hard-to-model systems, extremum seeking solves some of the same problems as today's neural network techniques, but in a more rigorous and practical way.

The chronologically earliest demographic expert report appeared in a court hearing at ICTY in June 2000. The report was related to the missing persons from the fall of Srebrenica in 1995 and presented in the General KRSTIC case (IT-98-33). It was authored by two Norwegian demographers, Helge Brunborg, a senior researcher permanently affiliated with Statistics Norway and at the time of writing of the report also a demographer in the Office of the Prosecution (OTP), ICTY, and Henrik Urdal – then an investigation assistant in the OTP, ICTY; later a researcher in the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. The report was requested from the demographers by the Prosecutor of the KRSTIC case and was meant to summarize the victimization of the fall of Srebrenica. Even though the data used for the report was exclusively on missing persons and no records of confirmed deaths from exhumations were used (as those were practically unavailable at the time of the KRSTIC trial), the report and the testimony of the OTP expert Helge Brunborg resulted in a great deal of success; severa essential references were made in the judgement of the KRSTIC case to the demographic evidence from this report.