Chance‐constrained operation of the water‐energy nexus with conflicting objectives

Decathlon, Conflicting Objectives and User Preference Querying

First motivation of our approach is Decathlon as an athletic discipline and its development in the last century (http://www.decathlon.ee). During this period, motivated by a desire of a fair competition, a development in scoring tables occurred. Today we can say it is stabilized. It shows single disciplines ordered (and scored) in direction of better (harder) achievement. Comparison with single...

Scheduling vessels and container-yard operations with conflicting objectives

__________________________________________________________ We consider the problem of coordinating the operations of two supply chain partners: a foreign shipping company and a domestic port. The two partners have conflicting business objectives, and the issue is to determine the optimal cycle time, by which the shipping company removes the empty containers from the domestic port, so that the j...

Adaptive Decentralized Noise and Vibration Control with Conflicting Performance Objectives

Decentralized control is a longstanding challenge in systems theory. A decentralized controller may consist of multiple local controllers, connected to disjoint or overlapping sets of sensors and actuators, and where each local controller has limited ability to communicate directly with the remaining local controllers and, in addition, may lack global knowledge of the plant and operation of the...

Balancing Conflicting Policy Objectives: The Case of School Finance Reform

Unveiling Innovative Design Principles By Means of Multiple Conflicting Objectives