In this paper, there are two competitors in a planar market. The first competitor, called, the leader, opens p new facilities. After that, the second competitor, the follower, reacts to the leader’s action and opens r new facilities. The leader and the follower have got some facilities in advance in this market. The optimal locations for leader and follower are chosen among predefined candidate...

We model a real-world case problem as a price competition model between two leader-follower supply chains that each of them consists of one manufacturer and one retailer. T he manufacturer produces partially differentiated products and sells to market through his retailer. The retailer sells the products of manufacturer to market by adding some values to the product and gains margin as a fracti...

This paper proposes a novel neural finite-time formation control algorithm for multiple underactuated surface vessels with actuator faults. In the algorithm, leader-follower problem is formulated as two-stage tracking problem. First, to address configuration without information of leader velocity, virtual vessel designed track reference trajectory leader. Second, an adaptive fault-tolerant (AFF...

we model a real-world case problem as a price competition model between two leader-follower supply chains that each of them consists of one manufacturer and one retailer. t he manufacturer produces partially differentiated products and sells to market through his retailer. the retailer sells the products of manufacturer to market by adding some values to the product and gains margin as a fracti...

Phenotypic heterogeneity is widely observed in cancer cell populations. Here, to probe this heterogeneity, we developed an image-guided genomics technique termed spatiotemporal genomic and cellular analysis (SaGA) that allows for precise selection and amplification of living and rare cells. SaGA was used on collectively invading 3D cancer cell packs to create purified leader and follower cell l...

The problem of coordinated control of a leader-follower system is solved using a virtual vehicle approach to alleviate information requirements on the leader. The virtual vehicle stabilizes to a shifted reference position/heading defined by the leader, and provides a reference velocity for the synchronization control law of the follower. Only position/heading measurements are available from the...

This paper studies the leader-follower formation control for multiple quadrotors. Two controllers are used. The first one is a proportional derivative controller used to ensure the tracking of the leader to the desired trajectory, while the second is based on fuzzy logic in order to achieve the desired formation in ! − ! plane with equal height (!) for all follower quadrotors. In order to ensur...

We investigate the solvability of the reverse Stackelberg game. Here, a leader player acts first by presenting a leader function that maps the follower decision space into the leader decision space. Subsequently, the follower acts by determining his optimal decision variable. Such a game setting can be adopted within a multi-level optimization approach for large-scale control problems like road...

* This work is partially supported by NSFC Grant #61340041 and 61374079 and The Project-sponsored by SRF for ROCS, SEM to Yunzhong Song. Abstract: In order to explore the rendezvous problems of leader-follower multi-agent system further, three different kinds of strategies, namely the democracy strategy, the autarchy strategy as well as the mixed strategy, which were inspired by the mankind sys...

Providing transparent replication of servers has been a major goal in the fault tolerance community. Transparent replication is particularly challenging for highly nondeterministic applications, such as the ones that use multithreading. For such applications, keeping replicas in a consistent state becomes non-trivial. One way to deal with the non-determinism is to use a leader/follower approach...