Typical bounds on generalization of Support Vector Machines are based on the minimum distance between training examples and the separating hyperplane. There has been some debate as to whether a more robust function of the margin distribution could provide generalization bounds. Freund and Schapire (1998) have shown how a diierent function of the margin distribution can be used to bound the numb...

The Remedial Action Scheme (RAS) is designed to take corrective actions after detecting predetermined conditions maintain system transient stability in large interconnected power grids. However, since RAS usually based on a few selected typical operating conditions, it not optimal that are considered the offline design, especially under frequently and dramatically varying due increasing integra...

Energy is the largest variable operating cost after raw materials for most of the process industries and its efficient use is key to sustaining profitable operation. Natural gas is the most common incremental fossil fuel and its general increase in price and in price volatility over the past few years are well known with most experts projecting these trends to continue in the future. Table 1 gi...

Stock return is usually considered to be affected by firm’s financial ratios as well as economic variables. Fundamental method assume that stock returns is not solely related to the stock market. Most result come from the company condition , industry situation and whole economy. In this paper, this relationship between stock return and fundamentals is studied using the data for 22 pharmaceutica...

Steam efficiency is a major opportunity for manufacturers to boost financial performance in an increasingly competitive environment. An immediate policy challenge is to raise manufacturers’ awareness of these opportunities. A major barrier to accomplishing this is the communications disconnect between plant superintendents and the financial decision-makers who set capital budgeting priorities. ...

This brief presents a new contribution in the problem of computing the stability margin of two-dimensional (2-D) discrete systems. The method, using the “resultant technique” instead of a typical minimization procedure , is actually an improvement of the method of .

I this paper, we investigate the integrated information and pricing strategy for a seller who can take customer preorders before the release of a product. The preorder option enables the seller to sell a product at an early stage when consumers are less certain about their valuations. We find that the optimal pricing strategy may be highly dependent on the amount of information available at pre...

Mobile robots often rely upon systems that render sensor data and perceptual features into costs that can be used in a planner. The behavior that a designer wishes the planner to execute is often clear, while specifying costs that engender this behavior is a much more difficult task. This is particularly apparent when attempting to simultaneously tune many parameters that define the mapping fro...

This paper investigates the effects of a change in the margin rules of the U.S. stock market. These rules determine how much investors can borrow to leverage their investments. Since the 1929 stock market crash, margin loans have been tightly regulated by the Securities and Exchange Act Regulation T. Between 2005 and 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission modified these margin rules becau...