Operations Research (OR), also called Operational Research in the United Kingdom (UK), uses various computational tools for solutions to complex problems within a system. It deals with challenges in planning, scheduling, forecasting, process analysis and decision analysis. It also addresses individual components of the system. The methodology used for decisions based upon stochastic (random) pr...

Fingers of the hand are interdependent: when a person moves one finger or produces a force with a fingertip, other fingers of the hand also move or show force production. Hence, no direct correspondence exists between the neural commands to individual fingers and finger forces. The relations among fingers are described with inter-finger connection matrices, IFM. The IFMs depend on the number of...

Event-B provides a flexible framework for stepwise system development via refinement. The framework supports steps for (a) refining events (one-by-one), (b) splitting events (one-by-many), and (c) introducing new events. In each of the steps events can moreover possibly be anticipated or convergent. All such steps are accompanied with precise proof obligations. Still, it remains unclear what th...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2012.10.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 561 297 2160. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.A. Sherman) Using the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ), this study investigates the relationship between personality, gender and individual differences in perceptions (or construals) of four situations experienced by un...

Association and classification are two important tasks in data mining and knowledge discovery. Intensive studies have been carried out in both areas. But, how to apply discovered event associations to classification is still seldom found in current publications. Trying to bridge this gap, this paper extends our previous paper on significant event association discovery to classification. We prop...

We consider a generalized form of the conventional decentralized control architecture for discrete-event systems where the control actions of a set of supervisors can bè`fused'' using both union and intersection of enabled events. Namely, the supervisors agree a priori on choosing``fusion by union'' for certain controllable events and``fusion by intersection'' for certain other controllable eve...

Multi objective optimization of externalities of traffic solving a network design problem in which Dynamic Traffic Management measures are used, is time consuming while heuristics are needed and solving the lower level requires solving the dynamic user equilibrium problem. Use of response surface methods in combination with evolutionary algorithms could accelerate the determination of the Paret...

The paper defines an innovative, novel design methodology that results in a product that effectively satisfies the designer’s needs and requirements. Use is made of the response surface methodology after consideration of other metamodeling techniques. Drawbacks of the response surface methodology are mitigated by incorporating sensitivity information in the response surface creation. The defini...

Multi objective optimization of externalities of traffic solving a network design problem in which Dynamic Traffic Management measures are used, is time consuming while heuristics are needed and solving the lower level requires solving the dynamic user equilibrium problem. Use of response surface methods in combination with evolutionary algorithms could accelerate the determination of the Paret...

As public utilities continue to evolve from regulated monopoly structures to open markets that promote free and fair competition, new players, new rules and new behaviors will continue to emerge, and given the uncertainties associated with this process, the need for suitable and a well-representative model increases. In this paper we present an Agent-Based Model (ABM) developed to capture some ...