in some data envelopment analysis (dea) applications, some inputs of dmus have negative values with positive cost. this paper generalizes the global cost malmquist productivity index to compare the productivity of dierent dmus with negative inputs in any two periods of times under variable returns to scale (vrs) technology, and then the generalized index is decomposed to several components. th...

The linear and nonlinear scale spaces are generalized in the complex domain, by combining the di usion equation with the simpli ed Schr odinger equation. A fundamental solution for the linear case is developed. Preliminary analysis of the complex di usion shows that the generalized di usion has properties of both forward and inverse di usion. An important observation, supported theoretically a...

We study some classes of generalized a¢ ne functions, using a generalized di¤erential. We study some properties and characterizations of these classes and we devise some characterizations of solution sets of optimization problems involving such functions or functions of related classes. Key words: colinvex, colin…ne, generalized di¤erential, optimization problem, protoconvex function, pseudocon...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of generalized dI-univexity in which each component of the objective and constraint functions is directionally differentiable in its own direction di for a nondifferentiable multiobjective programming problem. Based upon these generalized functions, sufficient optimality conditions are established for a feasible point to be efficient and properly efficien...

We study some classes of generalized a¢ ne functions, using a generalized di¤erential. We study some properties and characterizations of these classes and we devise some characterizations of solution sets of optimization problems involving such functions or functions of related classes. Key words: colinvex, colin…ne, generalized di¤erential, optimization problem, protoconvex function, pseudocon...

In this paper, we are concerned with a nondifferentiable multiobjective programming problem with inequality constraints. We introduce four new classes of generalized convex functions by combining the concepts of weak strictly pseudoinvex, strong pseudoinvex, weak quasi invex, weak pseudoinvex and strong quasi invex functions in Aghezzaf and Hachimi [Numer. Funct. Anal. Optim. 22 (2001) 775], d-...

We study some classes of generalized convex functions, using a generalized di¤erential approach. By this we mean a set-valued mapping which stands either for a derivative, a subdi¤erential or a pseudodi¤erential in the sense of Jeyakumar and Luc. We establish some links between the corresponding classes of pseudoconvex, quasiconvex and another class of generalized convex functions we introduced...

We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation and subject it to rigorous experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we …nd that the di¤erent predictions of previous imitation models are due to di¤erent informational assumptions, not to di¤erent behavioral rules. It is more important whom one imitates rather than how. In a laboratory experiment we test the di¤erent th...

The description of the inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive black hole sitting at a galactic centre is a problem of major relevance for the future space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), as the signals from these systems will be buried in the data stream and accurate gravitational-wave templates will be needed to extract them. Th...

‎In 1970‎, ‎Menegazzo [Gruppi nei quali ogni sottogruppo e intersezione di sottogruppi massimali‎, ‎ Atti Accad‎. ‎Naz‎. ‎Lincei Rend‎. ‎Cl‎. ‎Sci‎. ‎Fis‎. ‎Mat‎. ‎Natur. 48 (1970)‎, ‎559--562.] gave a complete description of the structure of soluble $IM$-groups‎, ‎i.e.‎, ‎groups in which every subgroup can be obtained as intersection of maximal subgroups‎. ‎A group $G$ is said to have the $FM$...