Changes in a construction project schedule can impact the project’s planned duration, resulting penalties. A manual trial-and-error probabilistic approach is usually conducted to find an appropriate set of corrective measures mitigate delays overall project. However, this does not capture actual goal-oriented behavior managers who react scenarios causing delays, leading fundamental modeling err...

An admission control algorithm for a multimedia server is responsible for determining if a new request can be accepted without violating the QoS requirements of the existing requests in the system. Most admission control algorithms treat every request uniformly and hence optimize the system performance by maximizing the number of admitted and served requests. In practice, requests might have di...

Scope and Purpose-In a recent paper. Slotnick and Morton introduce a problem of job selection in a heavily loaded shop. The problem is both practically relevant and theoretically interesting. As Slotnick and Morton point out, this kind of problems have just begun to receive attention in the research literature. For the problem at hand. Slotnick and Morton provide several algorithms (one exact a...

This paper proposes a novel clustering algorithm for the structure learning of fuzzy neural networks. Our clustering algorithm uses the reward and penalty mechanism for the adaptation of the fuzzy neural networks prototypes at every training sample. Compared with the classical clustering algorithms, the new algorithm can on-line partition the input data, pointwise update the clusters, and self-...

A dynamic multicast allows members to join or leave the multicast session during its active period. This paper studies the eeects of adaptive routing based on trunk reservation control and changes of membership simultaneously in the design of non-rearrangeable dynamic multicast routing. Two reference reward estimation schemes, the uniform reference reward scheme and weighted reference reward sc...

Patients sustaining lesions of the orbital prefrontal cortex (PFC) exhibit marked impairments in the performance of laboratory-based gambling, or risk-taking, tasks, suggesting that this part of the human PFC contributes to decision-making cognition. However, to date, little is known about the particular regions of the orbital cortex that participate in this function. In the present study, eigh...

Achieving high compliance rates in incentive-based agri-environmental schemes is an important issue. This paper explores the use of a mixed penalty-reward approach under heterogeneous compliance costs. Specifically, we examine the use of a “compliance reward” under asymmetric information and output price uncertainty. Using a budget-neutral approach, three possible sources of financing are consi...