We study preferences for which choosing high expectations about the future make us happy now but make us unhappy later if they are not realized. These preferences generalize the recursive utility of Kreps-Porteus and Epstein-Zin. Like recursive utility agents, our agents care about the time resolution of uncertainty, but our agents are not purely forward-looking. For example, two agents with th...

Demand-side management (DSM) is a process by which the user demand patterns are modified to meet certain desired objectives. Traditionally, DSM was utility-driven, but with an increase in integration of renewable sources and privacy-conscious consumers, it also becomes “consumer-driven” process. Promising theoretical studies have shown that privacy can be achieved shaping using energy storage s...

Objective The main purpose of this article is to choose the best predictive model for IVF/ICSI classification and to calculate the probability of IVF/ICSI success for each couple using Artificial intelligence. Also, we aimed to find the most effective factors for prediction of ART success in infertile couples. MaterialsAndMethods In this cross-sectional study, the data of 486 patients are colle...

we give a new recursive method to compute the number of cliques and cycles of a graph. this method is related, respectively to the number of disjoint cliques in the complement graph and to the sum of permanent function over all principal minors of the adjacency matrix of the graph. in particular, let $g$ be a graph and let $overline {g}$ be its complement, then given the chromatic polynomial of...