WORLD ORDER FORMATS UNDER SYSTEMIC UNCERTAINTY: A SOCIOLOGIST'S VIEW

Designing a Fractional Order PID Controller for a Two-Area Micro-Grid under Uncertainty of Parameters

Increasing the number of microgrids has raised the complexity and nonlinearity of the power system and conventional controllers do not present acceptable efficiency in a wide range of operation points. In this study, a fractional order proportional–integral–derivative controller optimized with hybrid grey wolf-pattern search algorithm is used to control the frequency of each area of the microgr...

Order Acceptance under Uncertainty: a Reinforcement Learning Approach

Beta is the largest research centre in the Netherlands in the field of operations management in technology-intensive environments. The mission of Beta is to carry out fundamental and applied research on the analysis, design and control of operational processes. PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Twente, op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof.dr. Acknowledg...

A Robust Heuristic for Batting Order Optimization Under Uncertainty

Baseball teams are faced with a difficult scheduling problem every day: given a set of nine players, find the optimal sequence in which they should bat. Effective optimization can increase a team’s win total by up to 3 wins per season, and 10% of all Major League teams missed the playoffs by 3 or less wins in 1998. Considering the recent $252 million contract given to one player, it is obvious ...

Black Sociologists: A Critical Analysis

Terrorism: A Systemic View

Broadly speaking, ‘terrorism’ is regarded as extremely violent behavior by what is normally considered to be a minority subgroup of society. The value system in which terrorism is imbedded is not universally shared within the larger society from which it emanates. Terrorists form a movement that pursues a cause defined by its aims which, in turn, are defined within a value framework that may be...