Let f be a function on Rd that is monotonic in every variable. There are 2d possible assignments to the directions of monotonicity (two per variable). We provide sufficient condit...
Heavy industry maintenance facilities at aircraft service centers or railroad yards must contend with scheduling preventive maintenance tasks to ensure critical equipment remains ...
Gang Quan, Garrison W. Greenwood, Donglin Liu, Xia...
Energy-efficency is a key concern when designing protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSN). This is of particular importance in commercial applications where demonstrable retur...
Marco Zimmerling, Waltenegus Dargie, Johnathan M. ...
The spectrum of a graph has been widely used in graph theory to characterise the properties of a graph and extract information from its structure. It has also been employed as a g...
We introduce a class of voting rules called generalized scoring rules. Under such a rule, each vote generates a vector of k scores, and the outcome of the voting rule is based onl...