An approach to auctions and bidding is founded on observations and expectations of the opponents' behavior and not on assumptions concerning the opponents' motivations or internal reasoning. The approach draws ideas ...

The process management spectrum extends from conventional workflow processes to emergent processes. Three categories of process are identified. Activity-driven processes that are managed by a single reactive ...

This paper presents an intelligent control method and its engineering application in the control of braking-induced longitudinal vibration of floating-type railway bridges. Equations of motion for the controlled floating-type ...

This paper presents a double closed-loop controller for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) power system. which consists of a PEMFC stack, a controller, an AC-DC and DC-AC converter with the function ...

In this paper, a new intelligent control approach for high-speed quadruped bounding and galloping gaits is presented. The controller is capable of learning the leg touchdown angles and leg thrusts required to track the ...

One of the leading causes of automobile accidents is related to driving impairment due to drowsiness. A large percentage of these accidents occur due to drivers' unawareness of the degree of impairment. An automatic detection ...

A complete, immersive, distributed virtual trading environment is described. Virtual worlds technology provides an immersive environment in which traders are represented as avatars that interact with each other, and ...

Creating an applicable and precise financial early warning model is highly desirable for decision makers and regulators in the financial industry. Although Business Failure Prediction (BFP) especially banks has been ...