Selecting appropriate technology strategy is crucial to those designing ICT-based offering for specific geographical market. The antecedents of adopting particular technology can be used to identify opportunities and barriers of entry, but further information is needed for technology management on how adoption would take place. In this paper, it is argued that deploying a scenario method facili...

Systems with elements linked via a communication network are vulnerable to problems and attacks of malicious agents, potentially harmful consequences for performance stability. This paper proposes stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme deal two different sources uncertainties simultaneously, namely, packet losses external disturbances. In particular, the controller deals using tree-ba...

We describe a multistage, stochastic, mixed-integer programming model for planning capacity expansion of production facilities. A scenario tree represents uncertainty in the model; a general mixed-integer program defines the operational submodel at each scenario-tree node, and capacity-expansion decisions link the stages. We apply “variable splitting” to two model variants, and solve those vari...

Airlines must dynamically choose how to allocate their flight capacity to incoming travel demand. Because some passengers take connecting flights, the decisions for all network flights must be made simultaneously. To simplify the decision making process, most practitioners assume demand is deterministic and equal to average demand. We propose a multistage stochastic programming approach that mo...

New roads, agricultural projects, logging, and mining are claiming an ever greater area of once-pristine Amazonian forest. The Millennium Ecosystems Assessment (MA) forecasts the extinction of a large fraction of Amazonian tree species based on projected loss of forest cover over the next several decades. How accurate are these estimates of extinction rates? We use neutral theory to estimate th...

By extending the stability analysis of [20] for multistage stochastic programs we show that their (approximate) solution sets behave stable with respect to the sum of an Lr-distance and a filtration distance. Based on such stability results we suggest a scenario tree generation method for the (multivariate) stochastic input process. It starts with an initial scenario set and consists of a recur...

We propose a simple scenario for baryogenesis in supersymmetric models where baryon number is broken alongwith R-parity. The lightest supersymmetric particle (neutralino) decays to three quarks and CP violation comes from interference of tree and one loop box diagrams. The bounds on the R parity breaking couplings from the out-of-equilibrium condition are considerably relaxed in this scenario. ...