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This thesis comprises the study of two moduli spaces of piecewise J-holomorphic curves. The main scheme is to consider a subdivision of the 2-sphere into a collection of small domains and to study collections of J-holomorphic maps into a symplectic manifold. These maps are coupled by Lagrangian boundary conditions. The work can be seen as finding a 2-dimensional analogue of the finite-dimensional path space approximation by piecewise geodesics on a Riemannian manifold (Q,g). For a nice class of target manifolds we consider tangent bundles of Riemannian manifolds and symplectizations of unit tangent bundles. Via polarization they provide a rich set of Lagrangians which can be used to define appropriate boundary value problems for the J-holomorphic pieces. The work focuses on existence theory as a pre-stage to global questions such as combinatorial refinement and the quality of the approximation. The first moduli space of lifted type is defined on a triangulation of the 2-sphere and consists of disks in the tangent bundle whose boundary projects onto geodesic triangles. The second moduli space of punctured type is defined on a circle packing domain and consists of boundary punctured disks in the symplectization of the unit tangent bundle. Their boundary components map into single fibers and at punctures the disks converge to geodesics. The coupling boundary conditions are chosen such that the piecewise problem always is Fredholm of index zero and both moduli spaces only depend on discrete data. For both spaces existence results are established for the J-holomorphic pieces which hold true on a small scale. Each proof employs a version of the implicit function theorem in a different setting. Here the argument for the moduli space of punctured type is more subtle. It rests on a connection to tropical geometry discovered by T. Ekholm for 1-jet spaces. The boundary punctured disks are constructed in the vicinity of explicit Morse flow trees which correspond to the limiting objects under degeneration of the boundary condition.

In this work we present a general duality-theory framework for revenue maximization in additive Bayesian auctions involving multiple items and many bidders whose values for the goods follow arbitrary continuous joint distributions over some multi-dimensional real interval. Although the single-item case has been resolved in a very elegant way by the seminal work of Myerson [1981], optimal solutions involving more items still remain elusive. The framework extends linear programming duality and complementarity to constraints with partial derivatives. The dual system reveals the natural geometric nature of the problem and highlights its connection with the theory of bipartite graph matchings. We demonstrate the power of the framework by applying it to various special monopoly settings where a seller of multiple heterogeneous goods faces a buyer with independent item values drawn from various distributions of interest, to design both exact and approximately optimal selling mechanisms. Previous optimal solutions were only known for up to two and three goods, and a very limited range of distributional priors. The duality framework is used not only for proving optimality, but perhaps more importantly, for deriving the optimal mechanisms themselves. Some of our main results include: the proposal of a simple deterministic mechanism, which we call Straight-Jacket Auction (SJA) and is defined in a greedy, recursive way through natural geometric constraints, for many uniformly distributed goods, where exact optimality is proven for up to six items and general optimality is conjectured; a scheme of sufficient conditions for exact optimality for two-good settings and general independent distributions; a technique for upper-bounding the optimal revenue for arbitrarily many goods, with an application to uniform and exponential priors; and the proof that offering deterministically all items in a single full bundle is the optimal way of selling multiple exponentially i.i.d. items.

The main object of this thesis is to obtain numerous applications of fractional derivative operator concerning analytic and ρ-valent (or multivalent) functions in the open unit disk by introducing new classes and deriving new properties. Our finding will provide interesting new results and indicate extensions of a number of known results. In this thesis we investigate a wide class of problems. First, by making use of certain fractional derivative operator, we define various new classes of ρ-valent functions with negative coefficients in the open unit disk such as classes of ρ-valent starlike functions involving results of (Owa, 1985a), classes of ρ-valent starlike and convex functions involving the Hadamard product (or convolution) and classes of κ-uniformly ρ-valent starlike and convex functions, in obtaining, coefficient estimates, distortion properties, extreme points, closure theorems, modified Hadmard products and inclusion properties. Also, we obtain radii of convexity, starlikeness and close-to-convexity for functions belonging to those classes. Moreover, we derive several new sufficient conditions for starlikeness and convexity of the fractional derivative operator by using certain results of (Owa, 1985a), convolution, Jack's lemma and Nunokakawa' Lemma. In addition, we obtain coefficient bounds for the functional |α_ρ+2-θα²_ρ+1| of functions belonging to certain classes of p-valent functions of complex order which generalized the concepts of starlike, Bazilevič and non-Bazilevič functions. We use the method of differential subordination and superordination for analytic functions in the open unit disk in order to derive various new subordination, superordination and sandwich results involving the fractional derivative operator. Finally, we obtain some new strong differential subordination, superordination, sandwich results for ρ-valent functions associated with the fractional derivative operator by investigating appropriate classes of admissible functions. First order linear strong differential subordination properties are studied. Further results including strong differential subordination and superordination based on the fact that the coefficients of the functions associated with the fractional derivative operator are not constants but complex-valued functions are also studied.

Mobile devices such as smartphones and smart watches are ubiquitous companions of humans’ daily life. Since 2014, there are more mobile devices on Earth than humans. Mobile applications utilize sensors and actuators of these devices to support individuals in their daily life. In particular, 24% of the Android applications leverage users’ mobility data. For instance, this data allows applications to understand which places an individual typically visits. This allows providing her with transportation information, location-based advertisements, or to enable smart home heating systems. These and similar scenarios require the possibility to access the Internet from everywhere and at any time. To realize these scenarios 83% of the applications available in the Android Play Store require the Internet to operate properly and therefore access it from everywhere and at any time. Mobile applications such as Google Now or Apple Siri utilize human mobility data to anticipate where a user will go next or which information she is likely to access en route to her destination. However, predicting human mobility is a challenging task. Existing mobility prediction solutions are typically optimized a priori for a particular application scenario and mobility prediction task. There is no approach that allows for automatically composing a mobility prediction solution depending on the underlying prediction task and other parameters. This approach is required to allow mobile devices to support a plethora of mobile applications running on them, while each of the applications support its users by leveraging mobility predictions in a distinct application scenario. Mobile applications rely strongly on the availability of the Internet to work properly. However, mobile cellular network providers are struggling to provide necessary cellular resources. Mobile applications generate a monthly average mobile traffic volume that ranged between 1 GB in Asia and 3.7 GB in North America in 2015. The Ericsson Mobility Report Q1 2016 predicts that by the end of 2021 this mobile traffic volume will experience a 12-fold increase. The consequences are higher costs for both providers and consumers and a reduced quality of service due to congested mobile cellular networks. Several countermeasures can be applied to cope with these problems. For instance, mobile applications apply caching strategies to prefetch application content by predicting which applications will be used next. However, existing solutions suffer from two major shortcomings. They either (1) do not incorporate traffic volume information into their prefetching decisions and thus generate a substantial amount of cellular traffic or (2) require a modification of mobile application code. In this thesis, we present novel human mobility and application usage prediction algorithms for mobile devices. These two major contributions address the aforementioned problems of (1) selecting a human mobility prediction model and (2) prefetching of mobile application content to reduce cellular traffic. First, we address the selection of human mobility prediction models. We report on an extensive analysis of the influence of temporal, spatial, and phone context data on the performance of mobility prediction algorithms. Building upon our analysis results, we present (1) SELECTOR – a novel algorithm for selecting individual human mobility prediction models and (2) MAJOR – an ensemble learning approach for human mobility prediction. Furthermore, we introduce population mobility models and demonstrate their practical applicability. In particular, we analyze techniques that focus on detection of wrong human mobility predictions. Among these techniques, an ensemble learning algorithm, called LOTUS, is designed and evaluated. Second, we present EBC – a novel algorithm for prefetching mobile application content. EBC’s goal is to reduce cellular traffic consumption to improve application content freshness. With respect to existing solutions, EBC presents novel techniques (1) to incorporate different strategies for prefetching mobile applications depending on the available network type and (2) to incorporate application traffic volume predictions into the prefetching decisions. EBC also achieves a reduction in application launch time to the cost of a negligible increase in energy consumption. Developing human mobility and application usage prediction algorithms requires access to human mobility and application usage data. To this end, we leverage in this thesis three publicly available data set. Furthermore, we address the shortcomings of these data sets, namely, (1) the lack of ground-truth mobility data and (2) the lack of human mobility data at short-term events like conferences. We contribute with JK2013 and UbiComp Data Collection Campaign (UbiDCC) two human mobility data sets that address these shortcomings. We also develop and make publicly available a mobile application called LOCATOR, which was used to collect our data sets. In summary, the contributions of this thesis provide a step further towards supporting mobile applications and their users. With SELECTOR, we contribute an algorithm that allows optimizing the quality of human mobility predictions by appropriately selecting parameters. To reduce the cellular traffic footprint of mobile applications, we contribute with EBC a novel approach for prefetching of mobile application content by leveraging application usage predictions. Furthermore, we provide insights about how and to what extent wrong and uncertain human mobility predictions can be detected. Lastly, with our mobile application LOCATOR and two human mobility data sets, we contribute practical tools for researchers in the human mobility prediction domain.

Let E and F be Hilbert C*-modules over a C*-algebra A. New classes of (possibly unbounded) operators t: E->F are introduced and investigated - first of all graph regular operators. Instead of the density of the domain D(t) we only assume that t is essentially defined, that is, D(t) has an trivial ortogonal complement. Then t has a well-defined adjoint. We call an essentially defined operator t graph regular if its graph G(t) is orthogonally complemented and orthogonally closed if G(t) coincides with its biorthogonal complement. A theory of these operators and related concepts is developed: polar decomposition, functional calculus. Various characterizations of graph regular operators are given: (a, a_*, b)-transform and bounded transform. A number of examples of graph regular operators are presented (on commutative C*-algebras, a fraction algebra related to the Weyl algebra, Toeplitz algebra, C*-algebra of the Heisenberg group). A new characterization of operators affiliated to a C*-algebra in terms of resolvents is given as well as a Kato-Rellich theorem for affiliated operators. The association relation is introduced and studied as a counter part of graph regularity for concrete C*-algebras.

Cette thèse est consacrée à l'étude de la contrôlabilité approchée et à zéro des systèmes paraboliques linéaires sur un domaine non vide borné Ω de (), contrôlés par moins de forces que d'équations. Les contrôles seront localisés sur un ouvert de Ω ou sur son bord. Nous étudierons deux problèmes différents. Le premier consiste à contrôler une des équations indirectement à l'aide d'un opérateur de couplage d'ordre un. Nous obtenons alors des résultats pour plusieurs classes d'opérateurs et de systèmes. La deuxième question que nous étudierons est de savoir s'il est possible de contrôler seulement certaines composantes de la solution du système. Nous donnons une condition nécessaire et suffisante lorsque les coefficients de couplage sont constants ou dépendent du temps et étudions un système simplifié quand ils dépendent de l'espace. Nous terminerons en détaillant un schéma numérique avec lequel nous fournirons des perspectives quant à quelques problèmes qui restent ouverts en contrôlabilité partielle des systèmes paraboliques linéaires. / This thesis is devoted to the study of the approximate and null controllability of linear parabolic systems on a nonempty bounded domain Ω of(), controlled by less controls than equations. The controls will be localized in an open set of Ω or on its boundary. We will study two different problems. The first of them involves controlling one of the equations indirectly with a coupling operator of order one. We obtain some results for different class of operators and systems. The second question we will study is to know if it is possible to control only some components of the solution of the system. We give a necessary and sufficient condition when the coupling coefficients are constant or time depending and study a simplified system when they are space dependent. We will finish by giving details on a numerical scheme with which we provide perspectives concerning some open problems in partial controllability of linear parabolic systems.

La méthode de diffusion inverse est la plus efficace dans la théorie des systèmes intégrables. Introduite dans les années soixantes, d'importants résultats ont été obtenus pour les problèmes de dimension 1+1 et notamment sur l'interaction de solitons. Depuis quelques années, l'intérêt est porté sur des problèmes de dimensions supérieures comme les équations de Davey-Sterwartson, une généralisation de l'équation intégrable de Schrödinger cubique non linéaire en dimension 1+1. Des études numériques en limite semi-classique de l'équation de Davey-Stewartson II (DSII) défocalisant, font apparaître des points communs avec le cas réduit unidimensionnel, par exemple sur l'existence d'ondes de choc dispersives : des conditions initiales lisses mènent à une région d'oscillations rapides et modulées dans le voisinage des chocs des solutions des équations non dispersives dotées des mêmes conditions initiales.Cette thèse donne les premières étapes pour l'étude analytique de ce problème basée sur la méthode de la transformée de diffusion inverse. Les deux types de méthodes, directe et inverse, pour l'équation de DSII permettent de réécrire le problème sous la forme des équations D-bar. On considère la transformée spectrale directe pour l'équation DSII avec des conditions initiales lisses en limite semi-classique. La transformée spectrale directe mène à un système de Dirac elliptique singulièrement perturbé en deux dimensions. On introduit une méthode de type BKW pour ce problème et on montre qu'il est bien défini pour des paramètres spectraux k ∈ ℂ dont les modules sont suffisamment grands en controllant la solution d'une équation eikonale non linéaire. Aussi cette méthode donne des résultats numériques précis pour de tels k en limite semi-classique. Ces résultats reposent sur la solution numérique du système de Dirac singulièrement perturbé et la solution numérique du problème eikonal.On résout le problème eikonal de manière explicite pout tout k dans le cas d'un potentiel particulier. Ces calculs donnent une explication sur le fait que l'on ne puisse pas appliquer la méthode BKW pour des valeurs de |k| plus petites. On présente une nouvelle méthode numérique pour calculer la solution du problème eikonal avec des valeurs de |k| suffisamment grandes.Les calculs numériques de la transformée spectrale directe offrent une manière d'analyser le système de Dirac singulièrement perturbé pour des valeurs de |k| si petites qu'il n'y a pas de solution globale au problème eikonal. On donne une analyse semi-classique rigoureuse sur la solution pour des potentiels radiaux en k = 0, ce qui donne une expression asymptotique du coefficient de réflexion pour k = 0 et suggère une structure annulaire pour la solution, ce qui peut être utilisé quand |k| ≠ 0 est petit. L'étude numérique suggère aussi que pour certains potentiels, le coefficient de réflexion converge simplement, quand ε ↓ 0, vers une fonction limite définie pour des valeurs de k pour lesquelles le problème eikonal n'a pas de solution globale. On propose que les singularités de la fonction eikonale jouent un rôle aussi similaire que les points tournants de la théorie unidimensionelle. / Inverse scattering is the most powerful tool in theory of integrable systems. Starting in the late sixties resounding great progress was made in (1+1) dimensional problems with many break-through results as on soliton interactions. Naturally the attention in recent years turns towards higher dimensional problems as the Davey-Stewartson equations, an integrable generalisation of the (1+1)-dimensionalcubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The defocusing Davey-Stewartson II equation, in its semi-classical limit has been shown in numerical experiments to exhibit behavior that qualitatively resembles that of its one-dimensional reduction, namely the generation of a dispersive shock wave: smooth initial data develop a zone rapid modulated oscillations in the vicinity of shocks of solutions for the corresponding dispersionless equations for the same initial data. The present thesis provides a first step to study this problem analytically using the inverse scattering transform method. Both the direct and inverse scattering transform for DSII can be expressed as D-bar equations. We consider the direct spectral transform for the defocusing Davey-Stewartson II equation for smooth initial data in the semi-classical limit. The direct spectral transform involves a singularly perturbed elliptic Dirac system in two dimensions. We introduce a WKB-type method for this problem and prove that it is well defined for sufficiently large modulus of the spectral parameter k ∈ ℂ by controlling the solution of an associated nonlinear eikonal problem. Further, we give numerical evidence that the method is accurate for such k in the semiclassical limit. Producing this evidence requires both the numerical solution of the singularly perturbed Dirac system and the numerical solution of the eikonal problem. We present a new method for the numerical solution of the eikonal problem valid for sufficiently large |k|. For a particular potential we are able to solve the eikonal problem in a closed form for all k, acalculation that yields some insight into the failure of the WKB method for smaller values of |k|. The numerical calculations of the direct spectral transform indicate how to study the singularly perturbed Dirac system for values of |k| so small that there is no global solution of the eikonal problem. We provide a rigorous semiclassical analysis of the solution for real radial potentials at k=0, which yields an asymptotic formula for the reflection coefficient at k = 0 and suggests an annular structure for the solution that may be exploited when |k| ≠ 0 is small. The numerics also suggest that for some potentials the reflection coefficient converges point-wise as ε ↓ 0 to a limiting function that is supported in the domain of k-values on which the eikonal problem does not have a global solution. We suggest that singularities of the eikonal function play a role similar to that of turning points in the one-dimensional theory.

Dans le premier chapitre, nous commençons par définir certains produits tensoriels et identifions leur dual. Nous donnons ensuite quelques propriétés des classes de Schatten. La fin du chapitre est dédiée à l’étude des espaces de Bochner à valeurs dans l'espace des opérateurs factorisables par un espace de Hilbert. Le deuxième chapitre est consacré aux multiplicateurs de Schur linéaires. Nous caractérisons les multiplicateurs bornés sur B(Lp, Lq) lorsque p est inférieur à q puis appliquons ce résultat pour obtenir de nouvelles relations d'inclusion entre espaces de multiplicateurs. Dans le troisième chapitre, nous caractérisons, au moyen de multiplicateurs de Schur linéaires, les multiplicateurs de Schur bilinéaires continus à valeurs dans l'espace des opérateurs à trace. Dans le quatrième chapitre, nous donnons divers résultats concernant les opérateurs intégraux multiples. En particulier, nous caractérisons les opérateurs intégraux triples à valeurs dans l'espace des opérateurs à trace puis nous donnons une condition nécessaire et suffisante pour qu'un opérateur intégral triple définisse une application complètement bornée sur le produit de Haagerup de l'espace des opérateurs compacts. Enfin, le cinquième chapitre est dédié à la résolution des problèmes de Peller. Nous commençons par étudier le lien entre opérateurs intégraux multiples et théorie de la perturbation pour le calcul fonctionnel des opérateurs autoadjoints pour finir par la construction de contre-exemples à ces problèmes. / In the first chapter, we define some tensor products and we identify their dual space. Then, we give some properties of Schatten classes. The end of the chapter is dedicated to the study of Bochner spaces valued in the space of operators that can be factorized by a Hilbert space.The second chapter is dedicated to linear Schur multipliers. We characterize bounded multipliers on B(Lp, Lq) when p is less than q and then apply this result to obtain new inclusion relationships among spaces of multipliers.In the third chapter, we characterize, by means of linear Schur multipliers, continuous bilinear Schur multipliers valued in the space of trace class operators. In the fourth chapter, we give several results concerning multiple operator integrals. In particular, we characterize triple operator integrals mapping valued in trace class operators and then we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a triple operator integral to define a completely bounded map on the Haagerup tensor product of compact operators. Finally, the fifth chapter is dedicated to the resolution of Peller's problems. We first study the connection between multiple operator integrals and perturbation theory for functional calculus of selfadjoint operators and we finish with the construction of counter-examples for those problems.

In dieser Arbeit werden die zu einem m-sektoriellen Operator assoziierten Halbgruppen betrachtet, die die Lösungen des Anfangswertproblems der zugehörigen Evolutionsgleichung beschreiben. Es wird eine 1987 von Davies veröffentlichte Methode zur Abschätzung dieser Halbgruppen verallgemeinert. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden die zu Dirichlet-Formen assoziierten Markov-Halbgruppen. Für diese werden die Resultate spezialisiert und der Zusammenhang zur intrinsischen Metrik dargelegt. Die Arbeit schließt mit verschiedenen Beispielen, die zeigen, wie mit diesen Verallgemeinerungen von Davies Methode neue Anwendungsgebiete erschlossen werden können. / This thesis is about m-sectorial operators and their associated semigroups describing the solutions of the initial value problem of the corresponding evolution equation. We generalize a method published by Davies 1987 to estimate these semigroups. A focus is set on Markov semigroups associated with Dirchlet forms. The results are applied to them and the connection to the intrinsic metric is presented. The thesis ends with different examples showing how this generalization of Davies method can be applied into new fields of application.