In this paper, the competition between two supply chains and their elements is studied. Each chain consisted of a manufacturer and a distributor and the two chains compete in a market with single type of customer sensitive to price and delivery time. Therefore, this is a two-supply chain game and during the competition between two supply chains, elements of each supply chain (manufacturer and/o...

This paper aims to design an optimal distributed multi-agent controller for load frequency control and optimal power flow purposes. The controller parameters are optimized using Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) algorithm. The designed optimal distributed controller is employed for load frequency control in the IEEE 30-bus test system with six generators. The controller of each generator is consider...

Identifying the best way to organize the IS functions within an interprise has been a critical IS management issue since the mid-1980s. Yet to date, MIS researchers have offered little empirical evidence on which to base guidelines for the practitioner. This study seeks to explain a firm’s IS organization design decision for a decentralized, centralized, or "hybrid" locus of responsibility from...

This study compares the relative efficacy of centralized versus decentralized governance of national road services delivery, both theoretically and empirically. National roads are normally governed by the central government due to their functional importance as major arteries. Of the major functions of national road governance comprising planning, financing, construction and maintenance, the Mi...

We develop an algorithm to decouple a multi-robot path planning problem into subproblems whose solutions can be executed sequentially. Given an external path planner for general configuration spaces, our algorithm finds an execution sequence that minimizes the dimension of the highest-dimensional subproblem over all possible execution sequences. If the external planner is complete (at least up ...

Optimal coordination of multiple sensors is crucial for efficient atmospheric dispersion estimation. The proposed approach adaptively provides optimized trajectories with respect to sensor cooperation and uncertainty reduction of the process estimate. To avoid the timeconsuming solution of a complex optimal control problem, estimation and vehicle control are considered separate problems linked ...

The current centralized Network Management approach in mobile networks may lead to problems with being able to scale up when new customer services and network nodes will be deployed in the network. The next generation mobile networks proposed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) envision a flat network architecture comprising some thousands of network nodes, each of which will need to b...