PID controllers are the most popular group of controllers in practical applications. Many theoretical techniques and procedures have been developed for PID controllers with the aim to optimize the function of the control circuits. However, these techniques are seldom applied, except in cases where there are some extreme requirements for the safety and the operational quality of the control loop...

Many algorithms for data analysis exist, especially for classification problems. To solve a data analysis problem, a proper algorithm should be chosen, and also its hyperparameters should be selected. In this paper, we present a new method for the simultaneous selection of an algorithm and its hyperparameters. In order to do so, we reduced this problem to the multi-armed bandit problem. We cons...

There are two main components in the sender-side implementation of TCP Autotuning socket buffers [SMM98]. The first component determines what socket buffer size a connection desires based on its congestion window, which reflects this connection's round trip time and its share of the available bandwidth. The second component is the algorithm that is used to determine a connection's fair share of...

Most provincial governments are considering or introducing changes to hospital funding. Ten years of rapidly increasing expenditures have left them still facing complaints of waiting lists and waiting times. Activity-based funding (ABF) would supplement traditional negotiated global budgets, reimbursing a predetermined amount for each case treated - essentially, a "fee schedule" - thus providin...

Mosquitoes hear with their antennae, which in most species are sexually dimorphic. Johnston, who discovered the mosquito auditory organ at the base of the antenna 150 years ago, speculated that audition was involved with mating behaviour. Indeed, male mosquitoes are attracted to female flight tones. The male auditory organ has been proposed to act as an acoustic filter for female flight tones, ...