This paper, we presents a new primary-secondary-criteria scheduling model for resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) with uncertain activity durations (UD) and cash flows (UC). The RCPSP-UD-UC approach producing a “robust” resource-feasible schedule immunized against uncertainties in the activity durations and which is on the sampling-based scenarios may be evaluated from a cos...

Linear diffusion layer is an important part of lightweight block ciphers and hash functions. This paper presents an efficient class of lightweight 4x4 MDS matrices such that the implementation cost of them and their corresponding inverses are equal. The main target of the paper is hardware oriented cryptographic primitives and the implementation cost is measured in terms of the required number ...

When adapting services in a SOA environment, not only the validity of the adapter may be of importance, but also non-functional properties like the costs of the adapter. We introduce an approach for finding cost-efficient adapters based on the operating guideline, which characterizes all valid adapters for the given services.

Accurate load prediction is an effective way to reduce power system operation costs. Traditionally, the Mean Square Error (MSE) a common-used loss function guide training of accurate forecasting model. However, MSE unable precisely reflect real costs associated with errors because cost caused by in probably neither symmetric nor quadratic. To tackle this issue, paper proposes generalized cost-o...