This paper presents a systematic approach for bridge maintenance management that combines a stochastic Markovian performance prediction model with a multi-objective optimization procedure to determine the optimal allocation of funds and prioritization of bridges for maintenance, repair and replacement (MR&R). The prioritization of the bridges is based on the satisfaction of several conflicting ...

In this paper a network design model is presented for the problem of how to define an optimal airport topology in order to attend the conflicting movements of the aircrafts on ground during short to medium planning periods and taking into account the dynamic aspects of their interfering movements. Given a set of decision variables affecting the airport’s topology, the model balances a set of co...

What stance does one take towards information received as part of communication? On the one hand, a great deal of knowledge one acquires in one’s life comes from communication. One is therefore likely to be trustful towards information communicated by others. On the other hand, communication can be used to manipulate others. If an audience were to constantly trust information provided by a comm...

Five approaches in conflict resolution are distinguished, based on cooperativeness and aggressiveness in resolving conflict. Compromise based on cooperativeness is emphasized here as a solution in conflict resolution. Cooperative game theory oriented towards aiding the conflict resolution is considered and the compromise value for TU(transferable utility)-game is presented. The method VIKOR cou...

The ECB's secondary mandate requires it to support broader economic policies by and in the EU. How should ECB deal with its many, potentially conflicting, objectives? To answer that question, this article combines normative legal analysis new archival sources, as well of speeches documents. A more important role for fits new, political ECB. However, requirements text imposes on are paradoxical....

Abstract In many real-world situations, we have to deal with multiple objectives simultaneously in order make appropriate decisions. The presence of an optimization problem makes the challenging because most time these are conflicting nature. For example, may want maximize return on investment a portfolio and, other hand, minimize risk associated assets portfolio. We cost product while maximizi...

As current electric power communication network planning can hardly consider multiple design objectives simultaneously, we proposed a general optimization model of multiple objectives optical network planning in electric power communication systems, based on Pareto optimization and genetic algorithms. The optical network in power system is modelled mathematically and the total cost functional i...