In crisis response, hierarchical organizations are being replaced by dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents that promise more agility. However, these autonomous agents might cause a decrease in effectiveness when individually constructed plans for moderately-coupled tasks are not jointly feasible. Existing coordination techniques can be applied in the pre-planning phase to guarantee feasible j...

In many applications, the reliability relation associated with available information is only partially defined, while most of existing uncertainty frameworks deal with totally ordered pieces of knowledge. Partial pre-orders offer more flexibility than total pre-orders to represent incomplete knowledge. Possibilistic logic, which is an extension of classical logic, deals with totally ordered inf...

Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) is widely employed as a template for fabrication of nanowires and nanotubes due to its ability to generate self organized (SO), well ordered pore structures. We have developed a new aluminum pre-patterning technique to create well ordered nanopore arrays on thin films deposited on silicon substrates. We form patterns of thicker oxide on the surface via local oxidatio...

Locally solid Riesz spaces have been widely investigated in the past several decades; but locally solid topological lattice-ordered groups seem to be largely unexplored. The paper is an attempt to initiate a relatively systematic study of locally solid topological lattice-ordered groups. We give both Roberts-Namioka-type characterization and Fremlin-type characterization of locally solid topolo...

In this paper, we have focused to study convex L-subgroups of an Lordered group. First, we introduce the concept of a convex L-subgroup and a convex L-lattice subgroup of an L-ordered group and give some examples. Then we find some properties and use them to construct convex L-subgroup generated by a subset S of an L-ordered group G . Also, we generalize a well known result about the set of all...

we establish some relative volume comparison theorems for extremal volume forms of‎ ‎finsler manifolds under suitable curvature bounds‎. ‎as their applications‎, ‎we obtain some results on curvature and topology of finsler manifolds‎. ‎our results remove the usual assumption on s-curvature that is needed in the literature‎.