cooperation is the foundation of many protocols in wireless networks. without cooperation, the performance of a network significantly decreases. hence, all nodes in traditional networks are required to cooperate with each other. in this paper, instead of traditional networks, a network of rational and autonomous nodes is considered, which means that each node itself can decide whether to cooper...

The robust asymptotic stability problem of genetic regulatory networks with time-varying delays is investigated. Based on a piecewise analysis method, the variation interval of the time delay is firstly divided into two subintervals, and then the convexity property of the matrix inequality and the free weighting matrix method are fully used in this paper. By using a Lyapunov functional approach...

In this paper, we present a noisy version of the algebraic geometric approach of identifying parameters of discrete-time linear hybrid system. Two approximate ways of estimating hybrid parameters are considered: one is using MSE criteria, while the other is based on the information divergence that measures the distance between the error probability density function (PDF) of the identified model...

In this paper, the problem of exponential passivity analysis for uncertain neural networks with time-varying delays is considered. By constructing new augmented Lyapunov– Krasovskii’s functionals and some novel analysis techniques, improved delay-dependent criteria for checking the exponential passivity of the neural networks are established. The proposed criteria are represented in terms of li...

ToToday’s market place is increasingly dynamic and volatile. In this area supply network issues recently have attracted a lot of attention from industrial practitioners and academics worldwide. Chaos theory is the study of complex, nonlinear, dynamic systems. For chaotic systems, a tiny change in conditions may result in an enormous change in system output, whereas substantial changes in condit...

The current paper develops three different ways to measure the multi-period global cost efficiency for homogeneous networks of processes when the prices of exogenous inputs are known at all time periods. A multi-period network data envelopment analysis model is presented to measure the minimum cost of the network system based on the global production possibility set. We show that there is a rel...

In the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) internal sub-processes of the production units are ignored. The current paper develops a network-DEA super-efficiency model to compare the performance of efficient network systems. A new ranking method is developed by aggregating the computed super-efficiency scores with a J-divergence measure. The proposed approach is then applied to evaluate...

multi-criteria shortest path problems (mspp) are called as np-hard. for mspps, a unique solution for optimizing all the criteria simultaneously will rarely exist in reality. algorithmic and approximation schemes are available to solve these problems; however, the complexity of these approaches often prohibits their implementation on real-world applications. this paper describes the development ...