Irregular migration has become a major macro-economic and political challenge. Due to rising conflicts income inequality across the world, number of migrants is expected increase exponentially over coming decade. Thus, it critical importance effectively use limited resources allocated humanitarian operations for irregular migration. In this paper we model problem capacity management migrant tra...

Immediately after a disruption, in order to minimize the negative impact inflicted on society, its imperative re-establish interdicted critical services enabled by infrastructure networks. In this paper, we study stochastic network recovery problem that tackles planning of restoration activities (considering limited resources) links so pre-disruption service flows can be re-established as quick...

This paper considers VAR models incorporating many time series that interact through a few dynamic factors. Several econometric issues are addressed including estimation of the number of dynamic factors and tests for the factor restrictions imposed on the VAR. Structural VAR identification based on timing restrictions, long run restrictions, and restrictions on factor loadings are discussed and...

We shall present approaches to optimize the design of a measurement system and schedule dynamically a versatile measurement resource. The analysis is based on expressing the system management task as a dynamic programming problem in which the system state is partially observable. We shall review the well-known linearquadratic-Gaussian case, and discuss and give examples solutions of discrete st...