Designing a benthic monitoring programme with multiple conflicting objectives

Unveiling Innovative Design Principles By Means of Multiple 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...

Mitigation Strategies for Pandemic Influenza A: Balancing Conflicting Policy Objectives

Mitigation of a severe influenza pandemic can be achieved using a range of interventions to reduce transmission. Interventions can reduce the impact of an outbreak and buy time until vaccines are developed, but they may have high social and economic costs. The non-linear effect on the epidemic dynamics means that suitable strategies crucially depend on the precise aim of the intervention. Natio...