A robust finding in psychological research is that combining information with a mechanical rule results in more valid predictions than combining information holistically in the mind. Nevertheless, information is typically combined holistically in practice, resulting in suboptimal predictions and...

The transformer is one of the most useful pieces of equipment in a power system. The objective of the optimum design is to build the equipment as economically as possible. The design which fulfils certain limitations is subordinated to the question of economic manufacture. This paper presents a...

Energy consumption is the key design criterion for routing data in wireless sensor network. However, some applications of wireless sensor network like disaster management, battlefield control etc. demand fast data delivery. In this paper, a data forwarding technique is proposed and its...

At a practical level, mathematical programming under multiple objectives has emerged as a powerful tool to assist in the process of searching for decisions which best satisfy a multitude of conflicting objectives, and there are a number of distinct methodologies for multicriteria decision-making...

In practice it is quite customary that an alternative is evaluated by means of n ≥ 2 grades x1, ..., xn, each of which taking an integer value from 1 («bad») to m ≥ 3 («perfect»). Thus, a problem arises to rank the set X of all n-dimensional vectors x with integer components from 1 to m....