When the processing times of jobs are controllable, selected processing times affect both themanufacturing cost and the scheduling performance.Awell-known example for such a case that this paper specifically deals with is the turning operation on a CNCmachine. Manufacturing cost of a turning operation is a nonlinear convex function of its processing time. We also know that scheduling decisions ...

We consider selective classification, a term we adopt here to refer to ‘classification with a reject option.’ The essence in selective classification is to trade-off classifier coverage for higher accuracy. We term this trade-off the risk-coverage (RC) trade-off. Our main objective is to characterize this trade-off and to construct algorithms that can optimally or near optimally achieve the bes...

Soil erosion is a serious problem especially in northern parts of Iran. One themost important side effects on soil erosion may be the decline in qualities of soil refers toagricultural productivity. So it is very important to assess the soil erosion risk for thesustainable development of agriculture. This study outlines ways undertaken to provide anew tool to manage water erosion from physical ...

Risk classification refers to the use of observable characteristics by insurers to group individuals with similar expected claims, compute the corresponding premiums, and thereby reduce asymmetric information. An efficient risk classification system generates premiums that fully reflect the expected cost associated with each class of risk characteristics. This is known as financial equity. In t...

Living organisms can perform computations through various mechanisms. Understanding the limitations of these computations is not only of practical relevance (for example in the context of synthetic biology) but will most of all provide new insights into the design principles of living systems. This thesis investigates the conditions under which genes can perform logical computations and how thi...

Indoor drone or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations, automated with pilot control, are an upcoming and exciting subset of use cases. Automated indoor flights tighten the requirements stability localization accuracy in comparison classic outdoor cases which rely primarily on (RTK) GNSS for localization. In this paper effect multiple sensors 3D position is investigated using flexible sensor ...