Autonomous agents operating in a dynamic environment need constantly to reason about actions in pursuit of their goals, while taking into consideration possible norms imposed on those actions. Normative practical reasoning supports agents decision making about what is best for an agent to do in a given situation. What makes practical reasoning challenging is the conflict between goals that the ...

Loss-averse behavior makes the newsvendors avoid the losses more than seeking the probable gains as the losses have more psychological impact on the newsvendor than the gains. In economics and decision theory, the classical newsvendor models treat losses and gains equally likely, by disregarding the expected utility when the newsvendor is loss-averse. Moreover, the use of unbounded utility to m...

This paper presents an efficient emission constrained hydrothermal scheduling algorithm that deals with nonlinear functions such as the water discharge characteristics, thermal cost, and transmission loss. It is then incorporated into the hydrothermal coordination program. The program has been tested on a practical utility system having 32 thermal and 12 hydro generating units. Test results sho...

This paper presents an efficient emission constrained economic dispatch algorithm that deals with nonlinear cost function and constraints. It is then incorporated into the dynamic programming based hydrothermal coordination program. The program has been tested on a practical utility system having 32 thermal and 12 hydro generating units. Test results show that a slight increase in production co...

conclusions although the two instruments were able to discriminate between various states, the values derived from these instruments were quite different. this distinction could have influenced the conclusions of an economic evaluation. further research is required to determine which instrument should be used in economic evaluations. results the mean and median eq-5d utility scores for the tota...

VC2000 is a recommendable, easy-to-use and affordable program suited particularly to plot maps of both plasmids and linear DNA fragments for the documentation of cloning procedures. It comes with basic tools for sequence analysis that assist this major utility. A special feature of the program is the integration of web-based tools, providing additional analytical power and flexibility. In this ...

We propose a framework for robot programming which allows the seamless integration of explicit agent programming with decision-theoretic planning. Specifically, the DTGolog model allows one to partially specify a control program in a highlevel, logical language, but also provides an interpreter that— given a logical axiomatization of a domain—will determine the optimal completion of that progra...

In this paper, we deal with the problem of maintenance planning and production planning for a multiple-product manufacturing system. The manufacturing system under consideration consists of one machine which is subject to random failures and produces several products in order to satisfy some random demands. At any given time, the machine can only produce one type of product. The purpose of this...