Daily price limits are adopted by many securities exchanges in countries such as the USA, Canada, Japan and various other countries in Europe and Asia, in order to increase the stability of the financial market. These limits confine the price of the financial asset during all trading stages of any trading day to a range, usually determined based on the previous day’s closing price. In this pape...

We consider a networked control system (NCS) with packet loss being modeled as a stochastic process. We focus on the stochastic H∞ control approach. The designed controller is dynamic in the sense that it depends on the behavior of the lossy channel. First we apply the existing result on H∞ approach for NCS [4] to a teleoperating system. The fixed loss probability assumption in this result has ...

the understanding of the dynamic behavior of distillation columns has received considerable attention because distillation is one of the most widely used unit operations in chemical process industries. this paper reports a dynamic simulation study of the possible distillation columns sequences of dew pointing unit in the second phase of south pars gas refinery. in this unit, three columns are u...

In this paper we present an integrated traffic management and control approach for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). These IVHS consist of interacting roadside controllers and intelligent vehicles that are organized in platoons with short intraplatoon distances, and larger distances between platoons. All vehicles are assumed to be fully automated, i.e., throttle, braking, and steering...

Cognitive-control theories attribute action control to executive processes that modulate behavior on the basis of expectancy or task rules. In the current study, we examined corticospinal excitability and behavioral performance in a go/no-go task. Go and no-go trials were presented in runs of five, and go and no-go runs alternated predictably. At the beginning of each trial, subjects indicated ...

It has recently been shown that the marginalization paradox (MP) can be resolved by interpreting improper inferences as probability limits. The key to the resolution is that probability limits need not satisfy the formal Bayes’ law, which is used in the MP to deduce an inconsistency. In this paper, I explore the differences between probability limits and the more familiar pointwise limits, whic...

We present a model predictive control (MPC) approach to optimally coordinate variable speed limits for highway traffic. The basic idea is that dynamic speed limits can create traffic conditions where shock waves can damp out faster. The control objective is to minimize the total time that vehicles spend in the network. For the prediction of the evolution of the traffic flows in the network we u...

Department ofPathology, Kaiser Foundation Laboratories (Oregon Region), Clackamas, Oregon 970151; Department of Microbiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 441062; Medical Microbiology Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California 958173; Antimicrobics Investigations Section, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 303334; and Pfize...

We are analysing the implications of music composition through programming, in particular the possibilities and limitations of tracing the composition process through computer artefacts. The analysis is attached to the case study of a sound installation. This work was realised using a new programming system which is briefly introduced. Through these observations we are probing and adjusting a m...