Because of the piecewise linear nature of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) frontier, the optimal multipliers of the DEA models may not be unique. Choosing weights from alternative optimal solutions of dual multiplier models is one of the most frequently studied subjects in the context of DEA. In this paper, the authors have been inspired by the idea of Cooper et al. (2011) to propose a li...

aims: sludge is an inescapable component of all wastewaters that originated from their treatment. dissolved air flotation (daf) process as an alternative clarifier is used in treatment of drinking water, pretreatment of wastewater, and as a phase separator in sludge activation processes. this study aimed to calibrated the usage of daf process in a laboratory scale and under various conditions, ...

A distributed Pareto optimal control problem for an infinite order parabolic system is considered. The performance index has a vector form with two components in integral form. Constraints on controls and on states are imposed. To obtain optimality conditions for the Neumann problem, the generalization of the Dubovitskii–Milyutin theorem was applied. © 2014 The Authors. Production and hosting b...

The use of Electro-encephalography (EEG) for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) provides a cost-efficient, safe, portable and easy to use BCI for both healthy users and the disabled. This paper will first briefly review some of the current challenges in BCI research and then discuss two of them in more detail, namely modeling the “no command” (rest) state and the use of control paradigms in BCI. Fo...

This paper considers real-time obstacle avoidance control of a two-wheeled nonholonomic mobile robot. In this paper, we propose a discontinuous asymptotic stabilizing state feedback control law for a real-time obstacle avoidance problem via the minimum projection method. The method guarantees asymptotic stability and reduces the computational cost. The effectiveness of the proposed method is co...

We formulate and analyze a new method for solving optimal control problems for systems governed by Volterra integral equations. Our method utilizes discretization of the original Volterra controlled system and a novel type of dynamic programming jn which the Hamilton-Jacobi function is parametrized by the control function (rather than the state, as in the case of ordinary dynamic programming). ...

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications incur a high beam alignment cost in mobile scenarios such as vehicular networks. Therefore, an efficient beam alignment mechanism is required to mitigate the resulting overhead. In this paper, a one-dimensional mobility model is proposed where a mobile user (MU), such as a vehicle, moves along a straight road with time-varying and random speed, and commu...

Spectral efficiency presents the ultimate limit on data rate per unit bandwidth of a certain communication system. For direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems the spectral efficiency has been derived in case of synchronous reception for optimal and linear multiuser receivers, flat fading and non-fading environments as well as single and multi-cell cellular networks. The ...

We analyze the optimal design of income transfer programs with a special focus on participation taxes and the marginal tax rates in the phase-out region. The analytical framework incorporates labor supply responses along the intensive and extensive margin, where the latter is due to a minimum hours constraint. All results are expressed in reduced form, i.e. in terms of intensive and extensive l...

This paper addresses the optimal design and planning of sustainable chemical supply chains (SCs) in the presence of uncertainty in the damage model used to evaluate their environmental performance. The environmental damage is assessed through the Eco-indicator 99, which includes the recent advances made in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The overall problem is formulated as a bi-criterion stochast...