We consider a two-player, sequential location game, with n stages. At each stage, players 1 and 2 choose locations from a feasible set in sequence. After all moves are made, consumers each purchase one unit of the good from the closest location. Since player 1 has a natural first-mover disadvantage here (player 2 can obtain a payoff of 12 just by replicating player 1’s moves), we examine her mi...

With market-driven secondary spectrum trading, licensed users can receive benefits in terms of monetary rewards or various transmission services, thus setting a fair pricing structure by suitably defining spectrum quality characteristics and accurately addressing participant’s requirement is a key issue. In this paper, we investigate the pricing-based spectrum access by casting the problem of s...

Hotelling's Rule is the observation that the exploitation of a nonrenewable resource can only be economically e cient if the resource owner's marginal pro t increases at the prevailing discount rate. This has been a perennial topic in the literature of resource economics since the 1970s, with some authors extending the theory and others analyzing empirical data. This paper reports on the result...

This paper presents a wavelet characteristic based approach for the automated visual inspection of ripple defects in the surface barrier layer (SBL) chips of ceramic capacitors. Difficulties exist in automatically inspecting ripple defects because of their semi-opaque and unstructured appearances, the gradual changes of their intensity levels, and the low intensity contrast between their surfac...

Inference concerning the correlation coefficient of two random variables from the bivariate normal distribution has been investigated by many authors. In particular, Fisher [1915. Frequency distribution of the values of the correlation coefficient in samples from an indefinitely large population. Biometrika 10, 507–521] and Hotelling [1953. New light on the correlation coefficient and its trans...

1. The ability of crystalline ribonuclease to hydrolyze proteins is due to impurities present in the preparations and not to an intrinsic property of the ribonuclease molecule. The amounts of these impurities vary enormously with different preparations. 2. The dangers inherent in the use of crystalline enzymes as specific tools, without assaying them for all possible interfering impurities, are...

The objective of the current paper is to present an intelligent system for complex process monitoring, based on artificial intelligence technologies. This system aims to realize with success all the complex process monitoring tasks that are: detection, diagnosis, identification and reconfiguration. For this purpose, the development of a multi-agent system that combines multiple intelligences su...

The Hotelling's  control chart, is the most widely used multivariate procedure for monitoring  two or more related quality characteristics, but it’s power lacks the desired performance in detecting small to moderate shifts. Recently, the variable sampling intervals (VSI) control scheme in which the length of successive sampling intervals is determined upon the preceding values has been proved t...

conclusions in the case of existence gaussian noise, the results confirm that denoising is not effective on the measurement of t2* value. in the case of image distortion by rician noise, a predictor model is proposed to estimate the original t2* value. the predictor model is used to estimate the t2* value of new patients. the predicted t2* values were in good agreement with the corresponding or...