This paper presents a multi-objective and multi-service location-allocation model with capacity planning to design a healthcare facilities network through considering a referral system. Therefore, a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model containing two objective functions is proposed. The first objective function is  relates to minimization of total opening cost, minimization of tota...

In this paper, a cooperative task computation framework exploits the resource in user equipments (UEs) to accomplish more tasks meanwhile minimizes power consumption of UEs. The system cost includes UEs' and penalty unaccomplished tasks, is minimized by jointly optimizing binary offloading decisions, computational frequencies, transmit power. To solve formulated mixed-integer non-linear program...

We overview techniques for optimal geometric estimation from noisy observations for computer vision applications. We first describe estimation techniques based on minimization of given cost functions: least squares (LS), maximum likelihood (ML), which includes reprojection error minimization (Gold Standard) as a special case, and Sampson error minimization. We then formulate estimation techniqu...