natural hazards such as earthquakes have threatened the life of human beings during the history.as a consequence, the vibration mitigation of structures has caught great importance. activecontrol of structures is one of the rapidly emerging areas in the concept of structural control. thispaper presents a control method to deal with this subject when the dynamics of the structure ishysteretic an...

To date, researchers have shown that males are more likely to pirate software from the Internet than females (Hollinger, 1993; Hinduja, 2001, 2003). The purpose of this paper is to determine if low self-control or social learning theory can reduce the gender gap in software piracy. Using a nonrandom sample of college students, in four individual structural equation models, this study provides i...

The popular linear PID controller is mostly e3ective for linear or nearly linear control problems. Nonlinear PID controllers, however, are needed in order to satisfactorily control (highly) nonlinear plants, time-varying plants, or plants with signi5cant time delay. This paper extends our previous papers in which we show rigorously that some fuzzy controllers are actually nonlinear PI, PD, and ...

Network worms are malicious programs that spread automatically across networks by exploiting vulnerabilities that affect a large number of hosts. Because of the speed at which worms spread to large computer populations, countermeasures based on human reaction time are not feasible. Therefore, recent research has focused on devising new techniques to detect and contain network worms without the ...

A decentralized control algorithm for structural control system design has been developed. This novel approach is termed market-based control. As a potential alternative to the classical Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), this method decentralizes the decision process of the control system and allows for independent and autonomous control formulation to occur directly upon the control device. Th...