dam reservoirs supplies water resources for drinking, agriculture, and industry almost in all parts of iran. lack of proper utilization rules and unbalanced demands versus available water has led to many problems regarding to ineffective use of the water resources. precipitation and flow rate are stochastic phenomena. therefore, multi-step processes related to the water use efficiency should be...

Applications in increasingly important domains such as data mining and graph analysis operate on very large, dynamically constructed graphs, i.e. they are composed of dynamically allocated objects linked together via pointers. Parallel algorithms on large graphs can greatly benefit from software Distributed Shared Memory’s (DSM) convenience of sharedmemory programming and computational scalabil...

Dynamic configuration is a desirable property of a distributed system where dynamic modification and extension to the system and the applications are required. It allows the system configuration to be specified and changed while the system is executing. This paper describes a software platform that facilitates a novel approach to the dynamically configurable programming of parallel and distribu...

Adaptive critic control is an advanced control technology developed for nonlinear dynamical systems in recent years. It is based on the idea of approximate dynamic programming. Dynamic programming was introduced by Bellman in the 1950’s for solving optimal control problems of nonlinear dynamical systems. Due to its high computational complexity, applications of dynamic programming have been lim...

Combinatorial auctions have recently attracted the interests of many researchers due to their promising applications such as the spectrum auctions recently held by the FCC. In a combinatorial auction, multiple items with interdependent values are sold simultaneously and bidders are allowed to bid on any combination of items. This paper presents a method for implementing several secure combinato...

In this paper we study the problem of parametric minimization of convex piecewise quadratic functions. Our study provides a unifying framework for convex parametric quadratic and linear programs. Furthermore, it extends parametric programming algorithms to problems with piecewise quadratic cost functions, paving the way for new applications of parametric programming in dynamic programming and o...

the objective of this study was to determine the optimum replacement strategy using dynamic programming for dairy herds in fars province. a dairy cow is kept several lactations for milk production in the herd. after spending several lactations, milk production gradually begins to decline, while animal health problems rises simultaneously. so one of the most important management decisions of dai...