Deriving weights from a pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) is a subject for which a wide range of methods have ever been presented. This paper proposes a common weight multi criteria decision analysis-data envelopment analysis (MCDA-DEA) approach with assurance region for weight derivation from a PCM. The proposed model has several merits over the competing approaches and removes the drawbacks of...

In this paper, stability for uncertain time variant linear systems with time delay is studied. A new sufficient condition for delay-dependent systems is given in matrix inequality form which depends on the range of delay. Then, we introduce a new direct computational method to solve delay systems. This method consists of reducing the delay problem to a set of algebraic equations by first expand...

Abstract. The numerical range of a matrix is studied geometrically via the cone of positive semidefinite matrices (or semidefinite cone for short). In particular, it is shown that the feasible set of a two-dimensional linear matrix inequality (LMI), an affine section of the semidefinite cone, is always dual to the numerical range of a matrix, which is therefore an affine projection of the semid...

The numerical range of a matrix is studied geometrically via the cone of positive semidefinite matrices (or semidefinite cone for short). In particular it is shown that the feasible set of a two-dimensional linear matrix inequality (LMI), an affine section of the semidefinite cone, is always dual to the numerical range of a matrix, which is therefore an affine projection of the semidefinite con...

For n n complex matrices A and an n n Hermitian matrix S, we consider the S-numerical range of A and the positive S-numerical range of A de ned by WS(A) = hAv; viS hv; viS : v 2 I Cn; hv; viS 6= 0

We introduce the block numerical range Wn(L ) of an operator function L with respect to a decomposition H = H1⊕ . . .⊕Hn of the underlying Hilbert space. Our main results include the spectral inclusion property and estimates of the norm of the resolvent for analytic L . They generalise, and improve, the corresponding results for the numerical range (which is the case n = 1) since the block nume...

LetW (A) andWe(A) be the joint numerical range and the joint essential numerical range of an m-tuple of self-adjoint operators A = (A1, . . . , Am) acting on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space, respectively. In this paper, it is shown that We(A) is always convex and admits many equivalent formulations. In particular, for any fixed i ∈ {1, . . . ,m}, We(A) can be obtained as the intersection ...