The key task in probabilistic reasoning is to appropriately update one’s beliefs as one obtains new information in the form of evidence. In many application settings, however, the evidence we obtain as input to an inference problem may be uncertain (e.g. owing to unreliable mechanisms with which we obtain the evidence) or may correspond to (soft) degrees of belief rather than hard logical facts...

the present study aimed at determining the relationship between servant leadership as well as its dimensions and organizational citizenship behaviour (ocb) of employees at valiasr academic complex (islamic azad university, central tehran branch). the research was applied, descriptive and correlational. statistical population included 230 employees in first semester of educational year (2012- 20...

We formulate multi-input multi-output proportional integral derivative controller design as an optimization problem that involves nonconvex quadratic matrix inequalities. We propose a simple method that replaces the nonconvex matrix inequalities with a linear matrix inequality restriction, and iterates to convergence. This method can be interpreted as a matrix extension of the convex–concave pr...

In today’s rapidly changing economy, technology companies have to make decisions on research and development (R&D) projects investment on a routine bases with such decisions having a direct impact on that company’s profitability, sustainability and future growth. Companies seeking profitable opportunities for investment and project selection must consider many factors such as resource limitatio...

OF DISSERTATION Empirical Likelihood Confidence Band The confidence band represents an important measure of uncertainty associated with a functional estimator and empirical likelihood method has been proved to be a viable approach to constructing confidence bands in many cases. Using the empirical likelihood ratio principle, this dissertation developed simultaneous confidence bands for many fun...

In shipboard DC grids, tightly controlled load converters can impair the system stability, thus provoking ship blackout. Conversely, regulated by low control bandwidths are capable of inducing a stabilizing action. This compensation is verifiable if loads few. On contrary, balancing dynamics hardly evaluated bus feeds multiple (i.e., hundreds or more) loads. this paper, weighted bandwidth metho...