This paper deals with the design procedure of the recently presented robust MPC for tracking of constrained linear systems with additive disturbances. This controller is based on nominal predictions and it is capable to steer the nominal predicted trajectory to any target admissible steady state, that is retaining feasibility under any set point change. By means of the notion of tube of traject...

This work addresses Grid fairshare allocation policy enforcement and presents Aequus, a decentralized system for Grid-wide fairshare job prioritization. The main idea of fairshare scheduling is to prioritize users with regard to predefined resource allocation quotas. The presented system builds on three contributions; a flexible tree-based policy model that allows delegation of policy definitio...

Search-based software testing uses random or directed search techniques to address problems. This paper discusses on test case selection and prioritization by combining genetic and clustering algorithms. Test cases have been generated using genetic algorithm and the prioritization is performed using group-wise clustering algorithm by assigning priorities to the generated test cases thereby redu...

Introduction There appears to be a growing number of prioritization exercises, for example of diseases, in health related settings (1). The decision process around these exercises involves comparing competing alternatives, i.e. diseases, and irreducible objectives. In addition to the multi-dimensional nature of the problem, the lack of reliable data, group dynamics associated to the involvement...

Duty cycling is an efficient mechanism to conserve energy in wireless sensor networks. Several existing duty cycling techniques have been proposed to conserve energy, but they are not able to handle the contention under dynamic traffic loads. In this paper we propose a protocol called Sender-Assisted-Receiver-Initiated MAC (SA-RI-MAC) which solves this problem without sacrificing the energy eff...

Ex situ conservation in germplasm and living collections is a major focus of global plant conservation strategies. Prioritizing species for ex situ collection is a necessary component of this effort for which sound strategies are needed. Phylogenetic considerations can play an important role in prioritization. Collections that are more phylogenetically diverse are likely to encompass more ecolo...

Abstract Requirements prioritization is giving priority to software requirements on the basis of its importance. The current research paper addresses importance and limitations existing prioritization. A lot techniques are presented by authors, but these have certain limitations. Not all either applied or suitable prioritize types requirements. Similarly, in techniques, only few scalable for la...