In the so called "one way" electric carsharing system, users can take a car at a station, use and leave it at another station. This process usually leads to a situation where some stations are full while others are empty. The system is especially compelling because vehicles are electrical and a minimal charging time is required. Therefore, a balanced system requires the optimal distribution of ...

We provide a simple model to investigate decisions about vertical separation. The key feature of this model is that more than one input is required for the final product of the downstream monopolist. We show that as the bargaining powers of independent complementary input suppliers grow larger, the downstream monopolist tends to separate from its input units. The results are related to a visibl...

You are probably deploying different types of small cells from multiple vendors, including residential small cells, indoor small cells for buildings, and public small cells in indoor hotspots. Most 3G small cells today are passive in operation they do some auto-configuration on start-up but can’t react to changes in traffic or in their radio environment. Others, such as Cisco Universal Small Ce...

We present a scheme for incorporating scene constraints into the auto-calibration process for the structure and motion recovery problem. The steps covered by the scheme include projective factorization of the joint image measurement matrix, recovery of the absolute dual quadric, the upgrade from projective structure to its Euclidean counterpart, and incorporation of constraints from orthogonal ...

Autotuning methods are typically conceived as procedures, thus need simulating as digital blocks. However, when no autotuning is in progress, it is far more efficient to represent the tuned controller as a continuous-time system, to exploit variable-step integration. This manuscript presents the first nucleus of a Modelica library of autotuning controllers, where the problem just mentioned is t...