In engineering, flood routing is an important technique necessary for the solution of a floodcontrol problem and for the satisfactory operation of a flood-prediction service. A simple conceptual model like the Muskingum model is very effective for the flood routing process. One challenge in application of the Muskingum model is that its parameters cannot be measured physically. In this article ...

In today's design, system complexity and increasing demand for safer, more efficient and less costly systems have created new challenges in science and engineering. Locomotives are products which are designed according to market order and technical needs of customers. Accordingly, targets of companies, especially designers and manufacturers of locomotives, have always been on the path of progre...

We study an online model of fair division designed to capture features of a real world charity problem. We consider two simple mechanisms for this model in which agents simply declare what items they like. We analyse axiomatic properties of these mechanisms such as strategy-proofness and envy freeness. Finally, we perform a competitive analysis and compute the price of anarchy.

In this paper we investigate parallel searching on m concurrent rays. We assume that a target t is located somewhere on one of the rays and that a group of m point robots has to reach t. Furthermore, we assume that the robots have no way of communicating over distance. Given a strategy S we are interested in the competitive ratio which is deened as the ratio of the time needed by the robots usi...

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Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find that, migrants exhibit no differences from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly more likely to enter competition in t...

Exercising is an activity in which the presence of others can motivate an individual to surpass his / her own limits. In recent years, technology has changed the way we carry out these activities. User commitment has been shown to be dependent on, among other, peer pressure. The introduction of challengeable virtual opponents broadened the spectrum of possibilities, enabling users to be motivat...

Proximity matrices like kernels or dissimilarity matrices provide nonstandard data representations common in the life science domain. Here we extend fast soft competitive learning to a discriminative and vector labeled learning algorithm for proximity data. It provides a more stable and consistent integration of label information in the cost function solely based on a give proximity matrix with...

This paper presents a new algorithm, Magnitude Sensitive Competitive Learning (MSCL), which has the ability of distributing the unit weights following any magnitude calculated from the unit parameters or the input data inside the Voronoi region of the unit. This controlled behavior permits to surpass other standard Competitive Learning algorithms that only tend to concentrate neurons accordingl...

Adaptation to customer needs is a key component of competitiveness in any service industry. In online HE (higher education), which is increasingly worldwide, this adaptation must include consideration of learning styles. Most research shows that learning style has little impact on learning outcomes in online education. Nevertheless, students with different learning styles prefer different learn...