Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are a rapidly evolving technology representing a potentially sustainable alternative to traditional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). By relying on electric power rather than petrol, these new vehicles will require a new infrastructure system for en-route charging options, be that fast charging stations or battery swap stations. PEVs will therefore ge...

We consider the effects of tuning d e l a y in optical broadcast networks. We show that for offl ine scheduling these effects are small even i f the tuning time is as large as the packet duration. In particular, we consider scheduling of random traffic with tunable transmitters and fixed-tuned receivers. We provide a lower bound to the completaon time of any off-line schedule with an arbitrary ...

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of online auctions. Currently, some online auctions, such as eBay, introduce a proxy bidding policy, under which bidders submit their maximum bids and delegate to a proxy agent to automatically outbid other competitors for the top bidder, whereas other online auctions do not. This paper compares these two widely used auction mechanisms (proxy se...

regulations of use of social networks, as one of the key components in these networks, serve an important role in controlling the flow of traffic. the study of the harmonization of these terms and regulations can be a significant step to avoid congestion and (users’) rejection in the network. harmonization of traffic control regulations (tcr) among social networks is one of the best solutions...

In this paper we make explicit the connection between projected dynamical systems on Hilbert spaces and evolutionary variational inequalities. We give a novel formulation that unifies the underlying constraint sets for such inequalities, which arise in time-dependent traffic network, spatial price, and a variety of financial equilibrium problems. We emphasize the importance of the results in ap...

The present study has two purposes. First, we wish to test the descriptive power of the Nash equilibrium solution in a traffic network game with a new population of participants and a different experimental procedure. Second, we wish to determine whether the effects of prior investment and personal responsibility, that may lead people to commit to a failing project, may be generalized from indi...

not available at this time 3 An Inner Approximation Algorithm for the Discrete Time Varying User Equilibrium Problem Athanasios Ziliaskopoulos, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, 38334, Greece, [email protected] Traffic assignment models usually assume a convex relationship of link travel time with flow. This paper argues that this is contradict...

Transportation modes, including Walking and other private modes as well as transit services, provide travel options to the individual trip-maker along a transportation network. On a single basis, any modal option is featured here in terms of travel time to destination conditionally to immediate availability, expected wait time in the adverse case and the probability of availability. The paper i...

Many researches have been investigated on planning or designing WDM networks assuming that the future traffic is known beforehand. Practically, it is difficult to predict the future traffic demand accurately since there are various types of data traffic with different traffic characteristics. In this thesis, we propose a scheme to design a WDM network that will accommodate as much traffic as po...