The purpose of this paper is to use the levers of control framework to explore the antecedents of control systems – various facets of strategy that drive the use of controls; to explore the relations among control systems; and to explore the costs and beneWts of control systems – costs in terms of consumption of a constrained resource (i.e., management attention) and beneWts (i.e., learning). U...

This paper was presented at: • SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), June 1993, Nashville, Tenn • International Conference on Structural Dynamics, Vibration, Noise, and control, December 1995, Hong Kong. • InterNoise ’96 (1996 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering), August 1996, Liverpool, U.K. • This paper is also printed in “Mfg.”, which is the Brown and Sharpe in-house tech...

Control structure design (CSD) deals with the following fundamental question: Given the process flowsheet, where should the controllers be placed, or more specifically, what variables should be measured (sensors) and manipulated (valves) and how should the two sets be interconnected for safe and economic operation? These choices are not obvious for most systems encountered in practice. The prob...

In this paper, mobile phone capabilities in advertising are introduced and mobile advertising acceptance from the receivers’ perspective in Iran is investigated. In the research, the process of accepting mobile advertising is explained too. Based on this process, the key influential factors affecting mobile advertising acceptance in Iran are identified and a relevant novel model is presented. T...

Social networking sites (SNSs) have evolved as the centre for daily social interactions. However, some users experience difficulties in managing their incessant urges to use the site, and result in spending excessive amount of time on the platform. While the research on the dark side of SNS use is gaining momentum, the theoretical understanding of this issue remains limited. In this study, we a...

Incomplete information about connectivity and functionality of elements of networked control systems is a challenging issue in applying model-based security analysis in practice. This issue can be addressed by modelling techniques providing inherent mechanisms to describe incomplete information. We present and exemplary demonstrate a new, ontology-based method to adaptively model and analyse ne...

A probability-based robust control design methodology is presented that is applied to the \benchmark system," which is a highdelity model of an active-mass-driver laboratory structure. For the controller design, the objective is to maximize the probability that the uncertain structure/controller system achieves satisfactory performance when subject to uncertain excitation. The controller's robu...

In the context of aircraft, shimmy is an oscillatory phenomenon of the landing gear mainly due the tire dynamics and the landing gear structural dynamics. This phenomenon, which can result in severe structural damages of the landing gear, is here actively damped by an indirect fuzzy adaptive controller. The difficulties to model the ground/wheel interface require the use of an adaptive controll...