The main goal in this paper is to propose an optimization model for determining the structure of a series-parallel system. Regarding the previous studies in series-parallel systems, the main contribution of this study is to expand the redundancy allocation parallel to systems that have repairable components. The considered optimization model has two objectives: maximizing the system mean time t...

We study the online allocation problem under a roommate market model introduced in [Chan et al., 2016]. Consider a fixed supply of n rooms and a list of 2n applicants arriving online in random order. The problem is to assign a room to each person upon her arrival, such that after the algorithm terminates, each room is shared by exactly two people. We focus on two objectives: (1) maximizing the ...

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This work attempts to study and offer a solution to an important resource allocation problem for explicitly parallel computing architectures. The problem of buffer space allocation in distributed on-chip memories is the key to lowering configuration (re-programming) overhead for systems such as SCORE [2] and enabling efficient virtualization of hardware resources essential for exploitation of s...

Results concerning the output regulation problem for over-actuated linear systems are presented in this paper. The focus is on the characterization of the solution of the full-information regulator problem for systems which are right-invertible (but not left-invertible) and the input operator is injective. The intrinsic redundancy in the plant model is exploited by parameterizing all solutions ...