An argument for refusing to publicly disclose supervisory ratings of the safety and soundness of banks rests on the claim that such disclosure will reduce supervisory effectiveness. Specifically, some argue that public disclosure of supervisory ratings will reduce the likelihood that bank supervisors take adverse, but deserved, actions against a bank such as a rating downgrade. This argument ha...

This study examined supervisory strategies as correlates of quality education among secondary schools in Ibadan southwest local government area of Oyo State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select thirty schools (public and private) and three hundred respondents consisting of 200 teachers from public schools, 80 teachers from private schools and 20 supervisors from Teaching Service...

Every arc from a place to a transition in a Free-Choice Petri net (FCPN) is either the unique output arc of the place, or, the unique input arc to the transition [M.H.T. Hack, Analysis of production schemata by Petri nets, Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1972; W. Reisig, Petri Nets, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1985; T. Murata, Petri nets: properties, analysis and a...

We study the consequences for supervisors’ and banks’ behavior of a “hub-and-spokes” supervisory system where centralized agency has authority over banks but relies on local supervisors to collect actionable information. The model entails principal-agent problem between central that leads tougher standards less compliance side supervised banks. Centralization greater inspection effort by superv...

Support service environments are stressful with stringent demands on individual and workgroup performance that have to be met day a‰er day. In earlier work we have modeled the impact of stress within such environments on the performance of the individual and correspondingly that of the team. Since teams are social environments, we can intuitively realise that social dimensions such as superviso...

A new hybrid direct/indirect adaptive fuzzy neural network (FNN) controller with a state observer and supervisory controller for a class of uncertain nonlinear dynamic systems is developed in this paper. The hybrid adaptive FNN controller, the free parameters of which can be tuned on-line by an observer-based output feedback control law and adaptive law, is a combination of direct and indirect ...

In this chapter we discuss how Petri nets can be used in the framework of supervisory control theory. A discrete event system is defined in such a theory as a language generator: this motivates the need to start the chapter with a short but self-contained introduction to Petri net languages. We consider the monolithic supervisory design that requires to construct the concurrent composition of t...