A fermion-boson-type composite model for quarks and leptons is proposed. Elementary fields are only one kind of spin-1/2 and spin-0 preon. Both are in the global supersymmetric pair with the common electric charge of “e/6” and belong to the fundamental representations of (3,2,2) under the spontaneously unbroken SU(3)C ⊗ SU(2)L ⊗ SU(2)R gauge symmetry induced necessarily by the concept of “Carta...

The passenger line planning is a process of strategic long-term decision-making problem in the field of railway passenger planning. A line is a route between starting point and destination with certain stops, which has a certain frequency of train schedule. A new solution based on decomposition algorithm has been proposed in this paper, which is defined in a master problem and two sub problems....

Some domains, such as real-time strategy (RTS) games, pose several challenges to traditional planning and machine learning techniques. In this paper, we present a novel on-line case-based planning architecture that addresses some of these problems. Our architecture addresses issues of plan acquisition, on-line plan execution, interleaved planning and execution and on-line plan adaptation. We al...

A novel active-vision system for 3-D object recognition was developed. The vision system combines object pre-marking and active sensing. Therein, an object is modeled by a few of its 2-D perspective (standard) views, each with a corresponding viewing axis defined by a marker placed on the object. The operation of the active-vision system is characterized by its off-line planning and on-line rec...

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithmic approach to solve line planning problems. To this end, we model the line planning problem as a game where the passengers are players which aim at minimizing individual objective functions composed of travel time, transfer penalties, and a share of the overall cost of the solution. To find equilibria of this routing game, we use a best-response algor...

The problem of robust line planning requests for a set of origin-destination paths (lines) along with their frequencies in an underlying railway network infrastructure, which are robust to fluctuations of real-time parameters of the solution. In this work, we investigate a variant of robust line planning stemming from recent regulations in the railway sector that introduce competition and free ...

It is widely agreed that the rate of change in many industries is faster than ever before. Strategic decisions are, in addition to top management plans, made on a day-to-day basis closer to the firms markets. In order for the decisions made by individual employees to be strategically coherent it is necessary that the employees develop a shared understanding of some of the basic assumptions and ...