Christian Bason: Design for Public Service

Min-max optimal public service system design

This paper deals with designing a fair public service system. To achieve fairness, various schemes are be applied. The strongest criterion in the process is minimization of disutility of the worst situated users and then optimization of disutility of the better situated users under the condition that disutility of the worst situated users does not worsen, otherwise called lexicographical minimi...

Service Reliability and Urban Public Transport Design

Electronics Design for an Autonomous Helicopter by Christian A . Trott

Over a two year period, two generations of electronics hardware for a fully functional autonomous aerial vehicle have been developed. Both custom-designed and off-the-shelf components have been integrated on a small radio controlled helicopter. This vehicle, the Draper Small Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (DSAAV), is now capable of fully autonomous take-off, way-point guidance, vision processing and...

Intelligent Design and the Contemporary Christian

John Mark Reynolds is the founder and Director of the Torrey Honors Institute and Professor of Philosophy at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He has writ ten numerous scholarly and popular ar ticles, and he lectures and blogs frequently on philosophy and cultural issues. Dr. Reynolds is the author of Towards a Unifi ed Platonic Human Psychology (University Press of America, 2004) and ...

Emergency Public Service System Design Using IP-Solver

The paper deals with the public service system design, in which the generalized utility is to be maximized. The generalized utility defined for a public service system assumes that user’s utility comes generally from more than one located service center, on the contrary to the former formulations, where only one service center was taken into account as a source of individual user’s utility. Cla...