Connected vehicle (CV) technology is expected to bring additional opportunities share, collect, and exploit various information on vehicles their occupants. Assuming that CVs are able transmit on-board users data, a user-based signal timing optimisation (UBSTO) strategy proposed, designed optimise user throughput for signalised intersections. In the CV environment, inputs of proposed algorithm ...

The authors have developed a new robotics platform for researchers and educators, providing an improvement in processing power compared to existing low-cost solutions while maintaining a low cost. The platform includes a microcontroller board, GNU-based development tools, and a suite of device drivers and basic utilities. The authors successfully used the platform in a one-month long robotics c...

In recent decades, growth of overall world trade has been driven in large part by the rapid growth of trade in intermediate inputs. Much of this input trade involves multinational firms locating input processing in their foreign affiliates, thereby creating global vertical production networks. In this paper, we use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to examine trade in intermediate inputs f...

the aim of this study was to explore the minimum amount of urea formaldehyde (uf) resin content and optimum particleboard density while maintaining boards’ quality to reduce production costs. board density at three levels (520, 620 and 720 kg m-3) and resin content (6, 7 and 8%) were variable parameters. stepwise multivariate linear regression models were used to evaluate the influence of board...

 Ambiguity in the inputs of the models is typical especially in portfolio selection problem where the true distribution of random variables is usually unknown. Here we use robust optimization approach to address the ambiguity in conditional-value-at-risk minimization model. We obtain explicit models of the robust conditional-value-at-risk minimization for polyhedral and correlated polyhedral am...