Switchgrass is known as one of the best second-generation lignocellulosic biomasses for bioethanol production. Designing efficient switchgrass-based bioethanol supply chain (SBSC) is an essential requirement for commercializing the bioethanol production from switchgrass. This paper presents a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model to design SBSC in which bioethanol demand is under auto-r...

Many rapidly-changing environments need to be monitored to ensure that they stay within acceptable parameters. The monitoring consists of measuring properties of the environment, and of inferring an aggregate predicate from these measurements. In many cases it is too complex, or too expensive to conduct explicit monitoring at all times. In these cases, information (integrity constraints) on the...

In this paper we quantify the total cost of an epidemic spreading through a social network, accounting for both the immunization and disease costs. Previous research has typically focused on determining the optimal strategy to limit the lifetime of a disease, without considering the cost of such strategies. In the large graph limit, we calculate the exact expected disease cost for a general ran...