Automatic water level control methods for open channels have difficulties to keep good performances for a large range of flow and significant unknown disturbances. A new concept called Model-Free Control is applied in this paper for hydroelectric run-of-the river power plants. To modulate power generation, a level trajectory is planned for cascaded power plants. Numerous dynamic simulations sho...

To get high performance on a distributed-memory multicomputer at present and for the foreseeable future, some explicit control is needed. This paper describes work aimed at harnessing the power of the functional notation in exercising such control. We have developed a declarative annotation scheme which allows explicit control over process placement and communications. The language, called Cali...

In some quality control applications, the quality of a process or a product is described by the relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables, called a profile. Moreover, in most practical applications, the qualitative characteristic of a product/service is vague, uncertain and linguistic and cannot be precisely stated. The purpose of this paper is to propose a ...

The main goal of this paper is to study Statistical Process Control (SPC) with Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) control chart when observations are seriallycorrelated. The characteristic of control chart is Average Run Length (ARL) which is the average number of samples taken before an action signal is given. Ideally, an acceptable ARL of in-control process should be enough large, s...

This paper integrates imperfect self-control into the standard model of endogenous growth. Individuals are conceptualized as “dual-selves” consisting of a long-run planner and a short-run doer. The long-run self can partly control the short-run self’s strife for immediate gratification. It is shown that the solution is structurally equivalent to the one of the standard endogenous growth model a...

A control system is presented, which adapts at run-time a software defined radio to the dynamic external environment. The goal is to operate with minimized use of resources and energy consumption, while satisfying an adequate quality of service. The control system is based on a model, which selects the most optimal configuration based on off-line gathered information and on-line measurements.