The disciplines of critical care and palliative care may initially seem to be polar opposites, yet they share fundamental features. Both focus on the sickest patients in the healthcare system. Each discipline's primary goal-extending life for critical care and comfort and quality of life for palliative care-represents an important secondary goal for the other. A tremendous body of work in the l...

in this paper a new method is proposed for path planning of planar manipulators amid obstacles through mathematical programming in a way that the robot’s links avoid collision with obstacles throughout their motion from an initial to a goal configuration. after inputting the workspace geometry, the shortest feasible path for the robot’s end-effector is planned toward its goal position using gen...

DR-BIP is an extension of the BIP component framework intended for programming reconfigurable systems encompassing various aspects dynamism. It relies on architectural motifs to structure architecture a system and coordinate its reconfiguration at runtime. An motif defines set interacting components that evolve according rules. With DR-BIP, dynamism can be captured as inter-play dynamic changes...

The fuzzy linear regression model with fuzzy input-output data andcrisp coefficients is studied in this paper. A linear programmingmodel based on goal programming is proposed to calculate theregression coefficients. In contrast with most of the previous works, theproposed model takes into account the centers of fuzzy data as animportant feature as well as their spreads in the procedure ofconstr...

This paper will investigate the optimum portfolio for an investor, taking into account 5 criteria. The mean variance model of portfolio optimization that was introduced by Markowitz includes two objective functions; these two criteria, risk and return do not encompass all of the information about investment; information like annual dividends, S&P star ranking and return in later years which is ...

This paper presents a concept called Component based Information Systems Re-Engineering (CISRE), which lays down the foundation of a new re-engineering approach. CISRE covers all the facets of Information Systems (IS) at three levels: system, collaboration and organization. This approach contains two main phases respectively: the comprehension phase and the renovation phase, which are not disjo...

Computing the exact ideal and nadir criterion values is a very ‎important subject in ‎multi-‎objective linear programming (MOLP) ‎problems‎‎. In fact‎, ‎these values define the ideal and nadir points as lower and ‎upper bounds on the nondominated points‎. ‎Whereas determining the ‎ideal point is an easy work‎, ‎because it is equivalent to optimize a ‎convex function (linear function) over a con...