In the classical data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, inputs and outputs are assumed as known variables, and these models cannot deal with unknown amounts of variables directly. In recent years, there are few researches on handling missing data. This paper suggests a new interval based approach to apply missing data, which is the modified version of Kousmanen (2009) approach. First, the prop...

this article aims to provide a simple robust method to test the parameters of a normal population by using the new diagnostic tool called the “forward search” (fs) method. the most commonly used procedures to test the mean and variance of a normal distribution are student’s t test and chi-square test, respectively. these tests suffer from the presence of outliers. we introduce the fs version of...

In this paper‎, ‎the impacts of premium bounds of put option contracts on the operation of put option and day-ahead electricity markets are studied‎. ‎To this end‎, ‎first a comprehensive equilibrium model for a joint put option and day-ahead markets is presented‎. ‎Interaction between put option and day-ahead markets‎, ‎uncertainty in fuel price, impact of premium bounds, and elasticity of con...

nowadays, scheduling problems have a considerable application in production and service systems. in this paper, we consider the scheduling of n jobs on a single machine assuming no machine idleness, non-preemptive jobs and equal process times. in many of previous researches, because of the delivery dalays and holding costs, earliness and tardiness penalties emerge in the form of linear combinat...

The robustness property can be added to DSC system at the expense of reducing performance, i.e., increasing the sum-rate. The aim of designing robust DSC schemes is to trade off between system robustness and compression efficiency. In this paper, after deriving an inner bound on the rate–distortion region for the quadratic Gaussian MDC based RDSC system with two encoders, the structure of...

Feasibility pump is a general purpose technique for finding feasible solutions of mixed integer programs. In this paper we report our computational experience on using geometric random walks and a random ray approach to provide good points for the feasibility pump. Computational results on MIPLIB2003 and COR@L test libraries show that the walk-and-round approach improves the upper bounds of a l...

Conformance testing is a formal and structured approach to verifying system correctness. We propose a conformance testing algorithm for cyber-physical systems, based on the notion of hybrid conformance by Abbas and Fainekos. We show how the dynamics of system specification and the sampling rate play an essential role in making sound verdicts. We specify and prove error bounds that lead to sound...