Teaching in the university has been under pressure to change in recent years. On the one hand, there is financial pressure to decrease resources on the other, there is a need to keep quality and quantity of education offered high and to give due consideration to changes in technology and learning methods. One response to these pressures has been to study if it is possible to build a learning en...

For High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) applications, the control and protection system plays an essential role in the overall performance of the transmission system. The control and protection system adopted by ABB Power Systems uses the latest technology from the fields of electronics and microprocessors. The main objective of this paper is to describe the experience from using the MACHTM (Mod...

This paper addresses the problem of choosing the optimum portfolio in the context of continuous time jump stochastic models. The aim is to maximize the wealth of a small risk-averse investor that operates in this financial market. When the case of complete observation is considered, the optimal control problem is formulated and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved to yield the solutio...

This paper analyses the consumption-investment problem of a loss averse investor equipped with s-shaped utility over consumption relative to a time-varying reference level. Optimal consumption exceeds the reference level in good times and descend to the subsistence level in bad times. Accordingly, the optimal portfolio is dominated by a mean-variance component in good times and rebalanced more ...

To investigate how political tastes influence portfolio decisions, we exploit the mandatory disclosure of equity holdings made by U.S. Congress members and a continuous measure of ideology based on their voting records. By doing so, we address methodological issues facing the literature on political tastes and investment decisions. We find that politicians with similar beliefs hold similar equi...

We introduce a generic solver for dynamic portfolio allocation problems when the market exhibits return predictability, price impact and partial observability. We assume that the price modeling can be encoded into a linear state-space and we demonstrate how the problem then falls into the LQG framework. We derive the optimal control policy and introduce analytical tools that preserve the intell...

66 IEEE ConsumEr ElECtronICs magazInE ^ january 2015 F lash, already one of the dominant forms of data storage for mobile consumer devices, such as smartphones and media players, is experiencing explosive growth in cloud and enterprise applications. Flash devices offer very high access speeds, low power consumption, and physical resiliency. Flash technology has improved at a dramatic rate over ...

Giardia is the most common enteric protozoan pathogen of humans, domestic animals and wildlife. Children are at the most risk from the clinical consequences of Giardia infection, particularly those in developing countries and living in disadvantaged community settings. Molecular epidemiological studies have helped to elucidate sources of infection and the public health significance of animal re...

To provide good transportation services for passengers in the modern buildings, a good elevator group control system (EGCS) is inevitably necessary. The viewpoint of designing the EGCS is very important. Passenger-based vieypoint proposed here provides a new way to think about this system. The capacity constraint following the thoughtfulness consideration for the passengers is utilized to make ...

The Robust-Control Toolboz [1] is a collection of 40 "M-files" which extend the capability of PC/PRO-MATLAB to do modern multivariable robust control system design. Included are robust analysis tools like singular values and structured singular values, robust synthesis tools like continuous/discrete H2/H o° synthesis and LQG Loop Transfer Recovery methods and a variety of robust model reduction...