A multiple access channel (MAC) with channel state information (CSI) non-causally known at some encoders is considered. For simplicity of exposition, a two-encoder model in which one of the encoders is non-causally informed of the CSI is focused. The results can in principle be extended to any number of encoders with a subset of them being informed. Inner and outer bounds for the capacity regio...

Developed for complex systems undergoing rare events involving many (meta)stable states, the multiple state transition path sampling aims to sample from an extended path ensemble including all possible trajectories between any pair of (meta)stable states. The key issue for an efficient sampling of the path space in this extended ensemble is sufficient switching between different types of trajec...

Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savings decisions of college professors. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded by a combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee contribution. Employees can also make tax-deferred contributions to a supp...

In June, President Reagan signed the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-335), which establishes the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) for employees hired after December 31, 1983. The program, which goes into effect on January 1, 1987, features a defined benefit retirement plan to augment mandatory coverage under social security. It also permits FERS partic...

We propose a planning architecture where the planner and the executor interact with each other in order to face dynamic changes of the application domain. According to the deferred planning strategy proposed in [14], a plan schema is produced o -line by a generative constraint based planner and re ned at execution time by retrieving up-todate information when that available is no longer valid. ...

In this paper introduce the average outgoing quality (AOQ) and average total inspect (ATI) for single sampling plan when that proportion nonconforming items is fuzzy number. We have shown that AOQ and ATI curves of the plan are like a band having a high and low bounds. Keywords—Statistical quality control, acceptance single sampling, average outgoing quality, average total inspection, fuzzy num...

The purpose of this paper is to present the Quality Interval acceptance single sampling plan when the fraction of nonconforming items is a fuzzy number and being modeled based on the fuzzy Poisson distribution. A new procedure for implementing Fuzzy logic in Quality Interval acceptance sampling plan has also been carried out.

This study proposes a new repetitive group sampling plan by attributes based on truncated life test under the Weibull distributions with known shape parameter. The constrained optimization problem is formulated as a nonlinear integer programming to determine the sample size and the acceptance criterion of the proposed plan. The objective function to be minimized is the average sample number, wh...

Currently, much effort is spent for the creation of linguistic resources such as grammars or domain models each time a new task oriented spoken language application is deployed. The resources for different applications, though different, resemble each other enough to warrant reusability of subcomponents. In this paper, we describe the application of techniques known from object oriented program...