This paper analayzes different FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) elements and the related economic, political, technological and social effects. We will demonstrate that, in Latin America, noncooperative or competitive equilibria do not solve the conflicts between FFTA supporters (the government and exporters) and detractors (social, religious and academic movements.) Finally, we will show...

We study marriage problems where two groups of agents, men and women, match each other and probabilistic assignments are possible. When only ordinal preferences are observable, stochastic dominance efficiency (sd-efficiency) is commonly used. First, we provide a characterization of sd-efficient allocations in terms of a property of an order relation defined on the set of man-woman pairs. Then, ...

A method for solving the descriptor discrete-time linear system is focused. For easily, it is converted to a standard discrete-time linear system by the definition of a derivative state feedback. Then partial eigenvalue assignment is used for obtaining state feedback and solving the standard system. In partial eigenvalue assignment, just a part of the open loop spectrum of the standard linear s...

a profile hidden markov model (phmm) is widely used in assigning protein sequences to protein families. in this model, the hidden states only depend on the previous hidden state and observations are independent given hidden states. in other words, in the phmm, only the information of the left side of a hidden state is considered. however, it makes sense that considering the information of the b...

A mass assignment based ID3 algorithm for the induction of decision trees on words is described. Such decision trees encode sets of qualified conditional rules on linguistic variables. The potential of this algorithm is illustrated by means of several examples relating to both real world and model classification and prediction problems.

the automatic assignment of protein secondary structure from three dimensional coordinates is an essentialstep in the characterization of protein structure.although, the recognition of secondary structures suchas alpha-helices and beta-sheets seem straightforward, but there are many different definitions, eachregarding different criteria. we have developed a newalgorithm for protein helix assig...

In this paper we propose a recursive equilibrium algorithm for the numerical simulation of nonoptimal dynamic economies. This algorithm builds upon a convergent operator over an expanded set of state variables. The fixed point of this operator defines the set of all Markovian equilibria. We study approximation properties of the operator. We also apply our recursive equilibrium algorithm to vari...

inflation forecasting has been one of the requirements for the implementation of monetary policy in countries which their monetary authorities are pursuing inflation targeting regime. however, owing to central bank independence in one hand and as well as the lagged effects of monetary policies on inflation in the other, the monetary authorities should have the sound perspective about the future...

This paper presents a multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for worker assignment and mixed-model assembly line balancing problem when task times depend on the worker’s skill level. The objectives of this model are minimization of the number of stations (equivalent to the maximization of the weighted line efficiency), minimization of the weighted smoothness index and minim...