Abstract. Participatory decision-making is a well-established approach to address the increasing pressure on water systems induced by growing multi-sectoral demands and increased competition among different users. However, most existing approaches search for system-wise efficient solutions do not quantify their distributional effect stakeholders. In this work, we investigate how operationalize ...

In the paper we consider a promising universal reconfigurable supercomputer, computing nodes of which are device Arcturus. It was developed at Supercomputers and Neurocomputers Research Center (Taganrog) based on modern Xilinx FPGAs UltraScale+ family HBM-series. The purpose is to achieve highest computational layout density, ensure balanced power supply cooling, as well implementation powerful...

UNLABELLED Ocular B-mode ultrasonography (US) is an important adjuvant for the clinical assessment of a variety of ocular diseases. When ophthalmoscopy is not possible, mainly due to opacification of the transparent media (e.g., mature cataract or vitreous haemorrhage), US can guide the ophthalmologist in diagnosing disease and choosing treatment. The superficial location and cystic structure o...

A new continuous-time MILP model for the short-term scheduling of multipurpose batch plants is presented. The proposed model relies on the idea of the State Task Network (STN) and addresses the general problem of batch scheduling, accounting for resources other than equipment (utilities), variable batch sizes and processing times, various storage policies (UIS/FIS/NIS/ZW) and batch splitting/mi...

A new continuous time MILP model for the short-term scheduling of multipurpose batch plants is presented. The proposed model relies on the State Task Network (STN) and addresses the general problem of batch scheduling, accounting for resource (utility) constraints, variable batch sizes and processing times, various storage policies (UIS/FIS/NIS/ZW), batch mixing/splitting, and sequencedependent...

In this paper, a novel multipurpose audio watermarking algorithm is proposed based on Vector Quantization (VQ) in Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain using the codeword labeling and index-bit constrained method. By using this algorithm, it can fulfill the requirements of both the copyright protection and content integrity authentication at the same time for the multimedia artworks. The robus...

Digital watermarking technique has been presented to solve copyright protection, copy protection, and content authentication issues in the digital world. Conventional watermarking algorithms are mostly designed for only one purpose. In recent years, some multipurpose digital watermarking methods based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and discrete Fourier transform (DFT) have been presented t...

A fuzzy multipurpose decision making problem, where the information about the alternatives provided by the experts can be presented by means of diierent preference representation structures, is studied. Assuming that the information can be represented by means of preference orderings, utility functions and fuzzy preference relations, a general multipurpose decision making model is managed to co...

Cables not only transfer the power needed to run electrical equipment, but also the data signals needed to operate them. To prevent errors and device failures, the same attention must be paid to the choice and installation of the cabling as is paid to the rest of the system. Dealing with data means considering signal integrity (SI). Since data signals are modulated electrical pulses, anything t...

Reservoir siting, permitting, construction and operation can, at times, face insurmountable challenges. Mosul Dam, a multipurpose dam located in Northern Iraq, is constructed on dissolvable anhydrite, gypsum limestone formation. To mitigate long-term impacts to the foundation, designers opted for structural solution. They incorporated into design grouting gallery maintenance of foundation cutof...