the control of car following is essential due to its safety and its operational efficiency. for this purpose, this paper builds a model of car following behavior based on armax structure from a real traffic dataset and design a model predictive control (mpc) system. based on the relative distance and relative acceleration of each instant, the mpc predicts the future behavior of the leader vehic...

Finding ways to enhance employee proactive behavior is a focal concern for academics and practitioners. Previous studies have found a positive association between empowering leadership and proactive behavior (Martin et al., 2013; Li et al., 2017). However, these studies lack elaboration on mechanisms and do not rule out the effect of employees' proactive personality during empirical testing. We...

Consider an organization composed by a Leader and by a finite group of agents (or followers). The Leader has some ideal organization composition or vector of preferred actions one for each agent and can invest in costly socialization trying to instill this “corporate culture” in all the agents of the organization. Each agent has as well her ideal action. When an agent makes a decision each peri...

We introduce the notion of stable leader election and derive several algorithms for this problem. Roughly speaking, a leader election algorithm is stable if it ensures that once a leader is elected, it remains the leader for as long as it does not crash and its links have been behaving well, irrespective of the behavior of other processes and links. In addition to being stable, our leader elect...

fMany military leadership studies have related subordinates' perceptions of leader behavior to subjective (i.e., paper and pencil) measures of subcrdinate satisfaction and/or group effectiveness e.g., Halpin, 1954 (1); Reaser, Vaughan, and Kriner, 1974 (2); Bleda, Gitter, and D'Agostino, 1977 (3); O'Reilley and Roberts, 1978 (4). However, few studies have assessed the relationship between subur...

The continuous improvement of military leadership identity to maintain excellent performance with respect the promotion mission success is a highly desired by Lithuanian Armed Forces. This study seeks identify criteria for effective behavior that appreciated servicemen. validated Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ XII) was used collect data representing followers’ preferences comma...