This paper presents contractors’ assessment and selection based on the multi-attribute methods in a competitive and risky environment. The model is based on a multi-attributes evaluation of contractors, the determination of their optimality criterion values calculated according to Hodges-Lehman rule. The proposed model could further be applied to construction operations. The attributes of contr...

Sequential optimality conditions provide adequate theoretical tools to justify stopping criteria for nonlinear programming solvers. Here, nonsmooth approximate gradient projection and complementary approximate Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions are presented. These sequential optimality conditions are satisfied by local minimizers of optimization problems independently of the fulfillment of constrai...

‎In this paper‎, ‎some KKT type sufficient global optimality conditions‎ ‎for general mixed integer nonlinear programming problems with‎ ‎equality and inequality constraints (MINPP) are established‎. ‎We achieve‎ ‎this by employing a Lagrange function for MINPP‎. ‎In addition‎, ‎verifiable sufficient global optimality conditions for general mixed‎ ‎integer quadratic programming problems are der...

In this position paper, we argue that when we are looking for the best fuzzy logic, we should specify in what sense the best, and that we get different fuzzy logics as “the best” depending on what optimality criterion we use.

This paper considers the problem of the design and analysis of experiments for comparing several treatments with a control when heterogeneity is to be eliminated in two directions. A class of row-column designs which are balanced for treatment vs. control comparisons (referred to as the balanced treatment vs. control row-column or BTCRC designs) is proposed. These designs are analogs of the so-...

We define a discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator for simplicial surfaces (Definition 16). It depends only on the intrinsic geometry of the surface and its edge weights are positive. Our Laplace operator is similar to the well known finite-elements Laplacian (the so called “cotan formula”) except that it is based on the intrinsic Delaunay triangulation of the simplicial surface. This leads to new ...

this paper aims at describing the mechanism of german loanwords adaptation with respect to constraints of persian language and within ot framework. consequently the adaptation of consonant clusters and diphthongs as well as the phonemes substituted in loanwords will be examined. prince and smolensky’s (1993) optimality theory with its key notions of faithfulness and markedness constraints is su...