Policy based network management is a promising approach for provisioning and management of quality of service in mobile ad hoc networks. In this thesis, we focus on performance evaluation of this approach in context of the amount of service received by certain nodes called policy execution...

The thesis aims to introduce an efficient resource development strategy in electric utility long term planning under uncertainty considerations. In recent years, electric utilities have recognized the concepts of robustness, flexibility, and risk exposure, to be considered in their resource...

The research presented in this dissertation is on the development of advanced reduced rank adaptive signal processing for airborne radar space-time adaptive processing (STAP) and steering vector mismatch robustness. This is an important area of research in the field of airborne radar signal...

Since commercial banks play important roles in the financial markets, it is important to evaluate whether banks operate efficiently. Moreover, given increased competition from non-bank financial institutions, commercial banks should operate more efficiently than they did previously. Commercial...

This study presents a multi-attribute decision making (MADM) frameworkin support of strategic resource planning of electric utilities. Study efforts have focusedon four technical issues identified to be essentially important to the process of strategicresource development, i.e., decision data...

Estimation of nonlinear models findsapplications in every field of engineering andthe sciences. Much work has been done tobuild solid statistical theories for its use andinterpretation. However, there has been littleanalysis of the tolerance of nonlinear modelestimators to deviations from...