Communities located near multiple sources of pollution, including current and former industrial sites, major roadways, and agricultural operations, are often predominantly low-income, with a large percentage of minorities and non-English speakers. These communities face additional challenges that can affect the health of their residents, including limited access to health care, a shortage of gr...

Resource or task assignment problems have been studied extensively in military network environments as efficient and effective resource allocation is the key to successful mission completion. However, existing works on asset‐task assignment problems are based only on the best match between functionalities of a node and requirements of a task. We propose a composite trust based task assignment p...

T price for a product may be set too low, causing the seller to leave money on the table, or too high, driving away potential buyers. Contingent pricing can be useful in mitigating these problems. In contingent pricing arrangements, price is contingent on whether the seller succeeds in obtaining a higher price within a specified period. We show that if the probability of obtaining the high pric...

Design of investment portfolios is the most important activity in the management of mutual funds, retirement and pension funds, bank and insurance portfolio management. Such problems involve, first, choosing individual firms, industries, or industry groups that are expected to display strong performance in a competitive market, thus, leading to successful investments in the future; second, it a...