I study monotonicity of equilibrium strategies in first-price auctions with asymmetric bidders, risk-aversion, affiliated types, and interdependent values. I prove that every mixed-strategy equilibrium is outcome equivalent to a monotone pure strategy equilibrium under the “priority rule” for breaking ties. This provides a missing link to establish uniqueness in Milgrom and Weber (1982)’s “gene...

RULE REDUCTS BASED ON ROUGH SET THEORY Şahin Emrah AMRAHOV Computer Engineering Department , Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey Fatih AYBAR Computer Engineering Department, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey Serhat DOĞAN Economics Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey In this paper it is considered rule reduct generation problem, based on Rough Set Theory. Rule Reduct Generation (RG) and...

Statistical metrology is the body of methods for understanding variation in microfabricated structures, devices, and circuits. The goal of this paper is to describe key features of statistical metrology, to review the tools and methods developed to date, and present an application of statistical metrology to advanced technology and design rule development. A running application example will be ...

In this paper, a multi-objective reconfiguration problem has been solved simultaneously by a modified ant colony optimization algorithm. Two objective functions, real power loss and energy not supplied index (ENS), were utilized. Multi-objective modified ant colony optimization algorithm has been generated by adding non-dominated sorting technique and changing the pheromone updating rule of ori...

Vibration behavior of different types of porous functionally graded (FG) conical sandwich shells are investigated based on a modified high order sandwich shells theory for the first time. Sandwich shell includes FG face sheets covering a homogeneous core and the second one includes homogeneous face sheets and a FG core. Power law rule modified by considering two types of porosity distributions ...