In this article, Non radial method of dynamic DEA with the parallel network structure is presented and is used for calculation of relative efficiency measures when inputs and outputs do not change equally. In this model, DMU divisions under evaluation have been put together in parallel. But its dynamic structure is assumed in series. Since in real applications there are undesirable inputs an...

The accelerating fields (e. g. centrifugal acceleration and constant acceleration) can change the physical performance of nano-sensors significantly. Herein, a new size-dependent model is developed to investigate the scale-dependent dynamic behavior of nanowire-fabricated sensor operated in an accelerating field. The scale-dependent equation of motion is developed by employing a consolidation o...

In this work the likelihood of asphaltene deposition problems during dynamic displacement of oil by natural gas in unconsolidated porous media is experimentally inspected. The two different rock materials, limestone and sandstone, are used as a representative of porous media. Dynamic flow experiments indicate that the increase of natural gas injection inc...

In this paper, to cope with the stochastic dynamic (or multi-period) problem, two new quadratic assignment-based mathematical models corresponding to the dynamic and static approaches are developed. The product demands are presumed to be dependent uncertain variables with normal distribution having known expectation, variance, and covariance that change from one period to the next one, randomly...

Behef revision and belief update have been proposed as two types of behef change serving differ ent purposes Belief revision is intended to capture changes of an agent's belief state reflecting new information about a static world Belief update is intended to capture changes of behef in response to a changing world We argue that both belief revision and behef update are too restrictive, routine...

In this paper we propose a general framework to study iterated changes of belief. Expansions, contractions and revisions are taken as actions which may be performed by an agent, resulting in a change of its beliefs. The syntax of the framework is given by a multi-modal language, containing modalities to reason about the agent's knowledge | representing its nondefeasible, veridical information |...

B2B applications require coordination of distributed services according to specific workflow policies. A major challenge with B2B applications is implementing a dynamic change to an active workflow policy. When dynamically changing a policy, active workflow instances that are in progress must be transitioned to the new policy in a dependable manner. To avoid undesirable side effects of the chan...

* The work reported in this paper has been funded in part by the Cooperative Research Centres Program through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the Commonwealth Government of Australia. Abstract Workflow technology has emerged as an appropriate platform for consolidating the distributed information resources of an enterprise, promoting interoperability across cross-platform sy...