Complexities inherent to large-scale modern civil structures pose many challenges in the design of feedback structural control systems for dynamic response mitigation. With the emergence of low-cost sensors and control devices creating technologies from which large-scale structural control systems can deploy, a future control system may contain hundreds, or even thousands, of such devices. Key ...

This study introduces decentralized static output feedback fuzzy control design for nonlinear interconnected systems via T-S fuzzy models. In general, due to the interactions among subsystems, it is dif cult to design an decentralized output feedback controller for nonlinear interconnected systems. A singular value decomposition (SVD) method is proposed in this study to solve the decentralized ...

While drivers are not expected to vote while driving, VANETs can be an excellent media for dissemination of decentralized regional polls and for prerecorded votes/opinions on regional issues in a decentralized opinion poll. We propose and evaluate heuristics for scheduling messages in a VANET broadcastingbased dissemination of decentralized opinion polling data among self-interested participant...

This paper presents two new results on the problem of determining a set of decentralized controllers for place/transition nets to enforce a global specification on the net behavior. Both the global specification and the decentralized specifications are given in terms of Generalized Mutual Exclusion Constraints (GMECs). First, an algorithm to select a decentralized specification that finds a com...

In this article, manufacturer-retailer supply chain coordination (SCC) has been developed under periodic review inventory system. In the studied model, the retailer as downstream member uses periodic review inventory policy and decides about review period (T) and order-up-to-level (R). Also, the manufacturer as upstream member faces EPQ system and determines the number of shipments from manufac...

Decentralized supply chain management is found to be significantly relevant in today’s competitive markets. Production and distribution planning is posed as an important optimization problem in supply chain networks. Here, we propose a multi-period decentralized supply chain network model with uncertainty. The imprecision related to uncertain parameters like demand and price of the final produc...

Wireless structural sensing has attracted much research interest in recent years. With actuation functionality incorporated in the design of the wireless sensing nodes, a wireless feedback structural control system can be constructed. For wireless structural control systems that face challenges in communication range, latency, and reliability, decentralized system architectures can provide prom...

This paper proposes an autonomous and economic droop control scheme for DC microgrid application. In this method, a cost-effective power sharing technique among various types of DG units is properly adopted. The droop settings are determined based on an algorithm to individually manage the power management without any complicated optimization methods commonly applied in the centralized control ...

the article by brenna and spandonaro on interregional mobility for acute hospital care in italy raises important issues concerning social and territorial equity in a healthcare system. based on regions and private providers’ strategic behavior, the hypothesis adopted to explain patient cross-border mobility (cbm), demonstrated by statistical analysis, may be further explored using qualitative m...