We consider a game-theoretic power control algorithm in interference limited fading channels, where we propose a distributed (non-cooperative) algorithm to optimize the induced fading outage probability by maximizing the certainty equivalent margin (CEM). We prove that the problem of maximizing CEM is the same (up to an upper bound) as minimizing the induced outage fading probability, and provi...

This paper investigates the behaviour in repeated decision situations. The experimental study shows that subjects show low or no riskaversion, but put very high value on the opportunity to sell the lottery in every stage of the decision problem. There is evidence that risk attitudes depend on whether they are measured by comparing the certainty equivalent and the expected value of a lottery or ...

We propose directed time series regression, a new approach to estimating parameters of time-series models for use in certainty equivalent model predictive control. The approach combines merits of least squares regression and empirical optimization. Through a computational study involving a stochastic version of a well known inverted pendulum balancing problem, we demonstrate that directed time ...

Two approaches to the analysis of spatial electrocardiographs vectors are currently being used: construction from the conventional ECG leads, and measurements from oscilloscopic recordings of spatial loops. There are seveml fundamental differences between the approaches, and there is no a priori certainty that equivalent or even similar phenomena are being investigated. This study presents a st...

This thesis deals with filtering of multidimensional signals. A large part of the thesis is devoted to a novel filtering method termed “Normalized convolution”. The method performs local expansion of a signal in a chosen filter basis which not necessarily has to be orthonormal. A key feature of the method is that it can deal with uncertain data when additional certainty statements are available...

This paper presents the extension of results on reasoning with totally ordered belief bases to the partially ordered case. The idea is to reason from logical bases equipped with a partial order expressing relative certainty and to construct a partially ordered deductive closure. The difficult point lies in the fact that equivalent definitions in the totally ordered case are no longer equivalent...

Elicitation methods in decision-making under risk allow us to infer the utilities of outcomes as well as the probability weights from the observed preferences of an individual. An optimally efficient elicitation method is proposed, which takes the inevitable distortion of preferences by random errors into account and minimizes the effect of such errors on the inferred utility and probability we...

Certainty is an epistemic quality or, as philosophers are used to say, an epistemic modality. It is not easily accounted for as such; but things get even more complicated due to the fact that certainty is often confused with other epistemic modalities. Since I cannot discuss here the quite sophisticated technical treatments of certainty, I focus on disentangling certainty from and relating it t...

Fuzzy Water Quality Index (FWQI) was applied in order to assess the degree of drinking water resources in Yazd province, Iran. Thisstudy has also offered the creation of a new fuzzy water quality index (FWQI) to evaluate this tool’s applicability. 12 chemicalparameters including toxic and non-toxic heavy metals measured in 71 groundwater samples collected from drinking water resourcesin rural a...