In this paper, the problemof robust exponential stability analysis of uncertain discrete-time recurrent neural networks withMarkovian jumping and time-varying delays is studied. By employing the Lyapunov functional and linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, a new sufficient criterion is proposed for the global robust exponential stability of discrete-time recurrent neural networks which conta...

We study the locally-defined social capital metric of Palasek (2013) for determining individuals’ prestige within an online social network. From it we derive an equivalent global measure by considering random walks over the network itself. This result inspires a novel expression quantifying the strategic desirability of a potential social connection. We show in silico that ideal social neighbor...

Opportunistic routing is based on the use of broadcast transmissions to expand the potential forwarders that can assist in the retransmission of the data packets. The receptors need to be coordinated in order to avoid duplicated transmissions. This is usually achieved by ordering the forwarding nodes according to some criteria. The proposed opportunistic routing protocols differ in the criterio...

The sewer layout in flat areas significantly influences the construction and operational costs as well as reliability of the network performance. To find an optimum design of sewer networks for flat areas, this study presents a multi-objective optimization problem with the objective functions of 1- the cost and 2- the reliability. The reliability criterion is defined as the effect of a clogging...

In this paper, a novel and effective criterion based on the estimation of the signal-to-noise-ratio figure (SNRF) is proposed to optimize the number of hidden neurons in neural networks to avoid overfitting in the function approximation. SNRF can quantitatively measure the useful information left unlearned so that overfitting can be automatically detected from the training error only without us...

Assessment and selection of suppliers are two most important tasks in the purchasing part in supply chain management. Supplier selection can be considered to be a single or multi-objective problem. From another point of view, it can be a single or multi-sourcing problem. In this paper, an integrated AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS model is proposed to solve the supplier selection problem. This model makes...

We propose a new framework for pruning convolutional kernels in neural networks to enable efficient inference, focusing on transfer learning where large and potentially unwieldy pretrained networks are adapted to specialized tasks. We interleave greedy criteria-based pruning with fine-tuning by backpropagation—a computationally efficient procedure that maintains good generalization in the prune...

Voice over IP applications require playout buffer at the receiver side to smooth network delay variations. Existing algorithms for dynamic playout adjustment used in Internet do not operate correctly in wireless ad hoc networks because they estimate end-to-end delay based on set of previous received audio packets. Mobility in ad hoc networks leads to topology changing and estimate based on past...

Social networks are ubiquitous. The discovery of close-knit clusters in these networks is of fundamental and practical interest. Existing clustering criteria are limited in that clusters typically do not overlap, all vertices are clustered and/or external sparsity is ignored. We introduce a new criterion that overcomes these limitations by combining internal density with external sparsity in a ...