The U.S. household carries over $7,500 in uncollateralized debt and likely saves at a negative rate. There is a growing body of evidence that this borrowing and saving behavior may not, as assumed by standard economics, be the product of rational financial planning. This paper discusses insights from behavioral economics on how self-control problems could play a crucial role in determining such...

The paper presents the way in which the active control can be improved via PC graphic software. It is describes an example in which for a dimensional control gauge, for different dimension shafts, the dimensional measuring can be aided by computer. In this way, all the necessary information regarding the form deviations of the shaft, could be generated and stored during the measuring process. T...

One of the major advantages of face recognition, compared to other biometrics, is the ease-of-use: no contact with the sensor, fast, in-line with the human way of recognizing people. In a border control scenario, fully automated gates using face recognition have now been deployed. As a passenger may use an automated solution only once in his life, the deployed system must operate with as little...

Support vector machines (SVM) are a powerful tool for building good spam filtering models. However, the performance of the model depends on parameter selection. Parameter selection of SVM will affect classification performance seriously during training process. In this study, we use combined Taguchi method and Staelin method to optimize the SVM-based E-mail Spam Filtering model and promote spam...

There is an obvious need to improve the adaptation of methods into Computer Aided Software/Systems Engineering (CASE) tools. This paper presents a new approach to adapting methods into CASE environments, called metamodeling. It applies a new generation CASE tool or CASE shell to offer flexible mechanisms to specify and implement methods, or to modify existing ones in tools. This allows customiz...

This work is concerned with electronically supported negotiations as an increasingly important part of the electronic support of business transactions in computer networks like the internet. Negotiations are – at least implicit – part of each such trade transactions. Nevertheless appropriate negotiation support systems are currently insufficient considered in the area of the electronic business...

the membrane separation technology by relying on microfiltration ultrafiltration, and reverse osmosis methods are becoming more important among consulting engineers, designers of environmental pollution control system, and industrial factories. the advantages of this technology together with its emphasis on recycling the fluid to the system and reusing the membranes have caused the membranes to...

This paper proposes a system-wide optimal resource dispatch strategy that enables a shift from a primarily energy cost-based approach, to a strategy using simultaneous price signals for energy, power and ramping behavior. A formal method to compute the optimal sub-hourly power trajectory is derived for a system when the price of energy and ramping are both significant. Optimal control functions...

This article presents a formal method that enables to design a logic control system from specifications given in natural language. The aim of the proposed method is to prevent designer's faults coming from specifications misinterpretation. A significant part of the article is devoted to the presentation of the formal framework that underlies this formal design method: the algebra II. The operat...