This work contributes to the practice of healthcare system modelling, by presenting an urgent issue: the growing process of integrated healthcare supply networks in reducing public healthcare systems’ annual expenses and improving performance. Various critical aspects affect the strategic...

An approach to multi-channel blind de-convolution is developed, which uses an adaptive filter that performs blind source separation in the Fourier space. The approach keeps (during the learning process) the same permutation and provides appropriate scaling of components for all frequency bins in...

This paper presents a method to get the optimal tuning of Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller parameters for an AVR system of a synchronous generator using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. The AVR is not initially robust to variations of the power system parameters....

In this paper, the problem of gain-scheduled H8 filter design for a class of parameter-varying systems with time-varying delays is discussed. An improved stability and H8-performance condition of the augmented system is developed. A sufficient existence condition of a desired gain-scheduled H8...

Recent research findings reveal that human bioenergetics belongs to the class of multi-loop nonlinear feedback systems—the same class of systems that system dynamics aims to study. In this paper the author aims to demonstrate the utility of utilizing simple—bathtub...

This paper presents an adaptive hybrid fuzzy controller to achieve prescribed tracking performance of fractional order chaotic systems. Depending on plant knowledge and control knowledge, a weighting factor can be adjusted by combining the indirect adaptive fuzzy control effort and the direct...

Several shortcomings of traditional innovation diffusion research create major impediments to the ‘holistic’ understanding of diffusion of innovations as well as to the development of effective strategies of policy intervention to facilitate diffusion process. Among the major...

This paper explores the implications of the use of System Dynamics to model dramatic works and examines the model used in Pamela Lee Hopkins’ “Simulating Hamlet in the classroom.†This paper addresses this issue from both a literary and a modelling perspective. It begins by...

In today’s global competition, companies are obliged to go to market using multiple channels of strategy for various reasons. However, channel conflict is inevitable in multi-channel structures causing sharp decreases in the demand of one or more channels. A system dynamic model was...

The synchronization problem for a general-class of unknown chaotic systems is addressed. Fuzzy systems in Mamdani type are employed to provide an approximate model of the master chaotic system using an adaptive approach. Within this, a number of fuzzy systems are utilized to approximate the...