After years of urging the Legislature to rein in the soaring cost of housing in Massachusetts, tenant advocates had finally found momentum earlier this year. A ballot question they put forward that ...

The state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled a ballot question seeking to bring rent control back to Massachusetts cannot go forward this November, because it includes a religious exemption. The proposal ...

Abstract: In this article, an unscented Kalman filter (UKF)-based multistep heuristic dynamic programming (MsHDP) optimal control algorithm is developed for nonlinear discrete-time (DT) systems with ...

Abstract: In this article, we investigate the optimal control problem for an unknown linear time-invariant system. To solve this problem, a novel composite policy iteration algorithm based on adaptive ...