Decision support in production planning and control has to face special properties of production processes and systems. To find an optimal solution for decision problems in this domain is usually nphard and a proper definition of objective functions and constraints is extremely difficult. One reason for the problem of proper model definition for classical optimization methods is the individual ...

The paper presents a data cleansing technique for string databases. We propose and evaluate an algorithm that identifies a group of strings that consists of (multiple) occurrences of a correctly spelled string plus nearby misspelled strings. All strings in a group are replaced by the most frequent string of this group. Our method targets proper noun databases, including names and addresses, whi...

Proper location of DGs in power systems is important for obtaining their maximum potential benefits. This paper deals with DG for minimizing active power loss and D-statcom for reactive power loss minimization is considered. The proper siting of DG and D-statcom is a recently developed combination with the aim of reducing line loss in a radial distribution system. Loss Sensitivity Factor (LSF) ...

In the present study bilayer patch of benzydamine HCl was developed using solvent casting method. Different substrates were attempted like Petri dish, glass-and-ring, and teflon-and-ring for selection of the proper option to formulate patch that should give easily peelable film with adequate mechanical properties. HPMC E15 LV was used in different concentrations for obtaining proper viscosity o...

The notion of finite zeros of continuous-time positive linear systems is introduced. It is shown that such zeros are real numbers. It is also shown that a square positive strictly proper or proper system of uniform rank with observability matrix of full column rank has no finite zeros. The problem of zeroing the system output for positive systems is defined. It is shown that a square positive s...

in this work, by employing the krasnosel'skii fixed point theorem, we study the existence of positive solutions of a three-point boundary value problem for the following fourth-order differential equation begin{eqnarray*} left { begin{array}{ll} u^{(4)}(t) -f(t,u(t),u^{prime prime }(t))=0 hspace{1cm} 0 leq t leq 1, & u(0) = u(1)=0, hspace{1cm} alpha u^{prime prime }(0) - beta u^{prime prime...

What happens if the Xi ’s take values in a (real) Banach space (B, ‖ · ‖)? In such cases, in particular when the square of the norm ‖ · ‖ is not given by an inner product, we are aiming at inequalities of the following type: Let X1, X2, . . . , Xn be independent random vectors with values in (B, ‖ · ‖) with EXi = 0 and E‖Xi‖2 < ∞. With Sn := ∑n i=1 Xi we want to show that E‖Sn‖ ≤ K n ∑ i=1 E‖Xi...