scholarly journals Modeling parameters of the lower and upper bounds and parameters of the objective function for generalized network flow programming problems

Author(s):  
L. A. Pilipchuk ◽  
A. S. Pilipchuk
Author(s):  
Seyed Jafar Sadjadi ◽  
Davood Shishebori

Electronic commerce plays an important role in many business activities, operations, and transaction processing. The recent advances on e-businesses have created tremendous opportunities to increase profitability. We present an optimal pricing and marketing planning where the primary objective function is to maximize the total profit. The proposed method of this paper considers different input parameters in uncertain regions and we provide a lower and upper bounds for the objective function of mathematical model with uncertain state. The paper is supported with a numerical example to demonstrate the implementation of the proposed method.


Author(s):  
Joanna Akrouche ◽  
Mohamed Sallak ◽  
Eric Châtelet ◽  
Fahed Abdallah ◽  
Hiba Haj Chhade

Abstract An essential step in the safe design of systems is choosing the system configuration that will maximize the overall availability of the system and minimize its overall cost. The main objective of this paper is to propose an optimization method of multi-state system availability in the presence of both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, to choose the best configuration for the system in terms of availability, cost, and imprecision. The problem is formulated as follows: let us consider several configurations of a system, with each configuration consisting of components with different working states, and imprecise failure and repair rates provided in the form of intervals. The aim is to find the best configuration regarding the system's imprecise availability, cost, and imprecision. First, the imprecise steady availability of each configuration is computed by using an original method based on Markovian approaches combined with interval contraction techniques. Then an objective function incorporating cost, the lower and upper bounds of availability, and imprecision is defined and computed to provide the best configuration. To illustrate the proposed method, a use case is discussed.


1958 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. R. Ford ◽  
D. R. Fulkerson

The theory developed for the study of flows in networks (2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7) sometimes provides a useful tool for dealing with certain kinds of combinatorial problems, as has been previously indicated in (3; 4; 6; 7). In particular, Hall-type theorems for the existence of systems of distinct representatives which contain a prescribed set of marginal elements (10; 11), or, more generally, whose intersection with each member of a given partition of the fundamental set has a cardinality between prescribed lower and upper bounds (9), can be obtained in this way (7).


1991 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.E. Rice ◽  
W.M. Grady ◽  
W.G. Lesso ◽  
A.H. Noyola ◽  
M.E. Connolly

1997 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-178
Author(s):  
Frank O'Brien

The author's population density index ( PDI) model is extended to three-dimensional distributions. A derived formula is presented that allows for the calculation of the lower and upper bounds of density in three-dimensional space for any finite lattice.


Author(s):  
S. Yahya Mohamed ◽  
A. Mohamed Ali

In this paper, the notion of energy extended to spherical fuzzy graph. The adjacency matrix of a spherical fuzzy graph is defined and we compute the energy of a spherical fuzzy graph as the sum of absolute values of eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of the spherical fuzzy graph. Also, the lower and upper bounds for the energy of spherical fuzzy graphs are obtained.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 940
Author(s):  
Zijing Wang ◽  
Mihai-Alin Badiu ◽  
Justin P. Coon

The age of information (AoI) has been widely used to quantify the information freshness in real-time status update systems. As the AoI is independent of the inherent property of the source data and the context, we introduce a mutual information-based value of information (VoI) framework for hidden Markov models. In this paper, we investigate the VoI and its relationship to the AoI for a noisy Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. We explore the effects of correlation and noise on their relationship, and find logarithmic, exponential and linear dependencies between the two in three different regimes. This gives the formal justification for the selection of non-linear AoI functions previously reported in other works. Moreover, we study the statistical properties of the VoI in the example of a queue model, deriving its distribution functions and moments. The lower and upper bounds of the average VoI are also analysed, which can be used for the design and optimisation of freshness-aware networks. Numerical results are presented and further show that, compared with the traditional linear age and some basic non-linear age functions, the proposed VoI framework is more general and suitable for various contexts.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 919-932
Author(s):  
Byeong Moon Kim ◽  
Byung Chul Song ◽  
Woonjae Hwang

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