A new parameterized binary relation is used to define minimality concepts in vector optimization. To simplify the problem of determining minimal elements the method of scalarization is applied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of minimal elements with respect to the scalarized problems are given. The multiplier rule of Lagrange is generalized. As a necessary minimality cond...

In this paper we extend to the vector case the notion of increasing along rays function. The proposed definition is given by means of a nonlinear scalarization through the so-called oriented distance function from a point to a set. We prove that the considered class of functions enjoys properties similar to those holding in the scalar case, with regard to optimization problems, relations with (...

The concepts of well-posedness of l-set optimization problem under variable order structure are introduced, the metric characterizations and sufficient criteria of well-posedness of a l-set optimization problem are proposed, and the equivalent relations between the well-posedness of l-set optimization problem and that of a scalarization minimization problem are established. Finally, by discussi...

Web service composition combines available services to provide new functionality. The various available services have different quality-of-service (QoS) attributes. Building a QoS-optimal web service composition is a multi-criteria NP-hard problem. Most of the existing approaches reduce this problem to a single-criterion problem by aggregating different criteria into a unique global score (scal...

The macroscopic tensile plasticity of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is highly desirable for various engineering applications. However, upon yielding, plastic deformation of BMGs is highly localized into narrow shear bands and then leads to the "work softening" behaviors and subsequently catastrophic fracture, which is the major obstacle for their structural applications. Here we report that macr...

The main purpose of this paper is to obtain sufficient conditions for existence of points of coincidence and common fixed points for three self mappings in $b$-metric spaces. Next, we obtain cone $b$-metric version of these results by using a scalarization function. Our results extend and generalize several well known comparable results in the existing literature.

I characterize the class of (possibly incomplete) preference relations over lotteries which can be represented by a compact set of (continuous) expected utility functions that preserve both indifferences and strict preferences. This finding contrasts with the representation theorem of Dubra, Maccheroni and Ok (2004) which typically delivers some functions which do not respect strict preferences...

We study the dynamical spontaneous scalarization of charged black hole in asymptotically anti--de Sitter spacetimes Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. Including various nonminimal couplings between scalar field and Maxwell field, an initial scalar-free suffers tachyonic instability, both irreducible mass grow exponentially at early times saturate late times. For fractional coupling, we find that, ...