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An academic performance indicator using flexible multi-criteria methods

2021

Composite indicators are a very useful tool for conveying summary information on the overall performance of institutions and facilitating decision-making. Increasingly, there is a demand for indicators that allow performance to be assessed after the implementation of a strategy. This has several difficulties, and in this paper, we address three of them: how to evaluate at different points in time, how to estimate the weighting of the criteria and how to normalize the data. Our proposal is based on multicriteria techniques, using a recent method, uwTOPSIS, and is applied to data collected from 2975 students enrolled in the first year of science and engineering at the Industrial University of…

Optimal design of complex passive-damping systems for vibration control of large structures: An energy-to-peak approach

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: Abstract and Applied Analysis. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/510236 Open Access We present a new design strategy that makes it possible to synthesize decentralized output-feedback controllers by solving two successive optimization problems with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints. In the initial LMI optimization problem, two auxiliary elements are computed: a standard state-feedback controller, which can be taken as a reference in the performance assessment, and a matrix that facilitates a proper definition of the main LMI optimization problem. Next, by solving the second optimization problem, the …

Optimization Problems via Best Proximity Point Analysis

2014

1 Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia 2Department of Mathematics, Atilim University, Incek, 06836 Ankara, Turkey 3 Department of Mathematics, Babes-Bolyai University, Kogalniceanu Street No. 1, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania 4Universita Degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy

Corrigendum to “Observer-Based Sliding Mode Control for Stabilization of a Dynamic System with Delayed Output Feedback”

2016

Static output-feedback control for vehicle suspensions: a single-step linear matrix inequality approach

2013

In this paper, a new strategy to design static output-feedback controllers for a class of vehicle suspension systems is presented. A theoretical background on recent advances in output-feedback control is first provided, which makes possible an effective synthesis of static output-feedback controllers by solving a single linear matrix inequality optimization problem. Next, a simplified model of a quarter-car suspension system is proposed, taking the ride comfort, suspension stroke, road holding ability, and control effort as the main performance criteria in the vehicle suspension design. The new approach is then used to design a static output-feedbackH∞controller that only uses the suspensi…

Dynamic Output Feedback Passive Control of Uncertain Switched Stochastic Systems with Time-Varying Delay

2013

Published version of an article in the journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Also available from Hindawi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/281747 Open Access This paper is concerned with the issues of passivity analysis and dynamic output feedback (DOF) passive control for uncertain switched stochastic systems with time-varying delay via multiple storage functions (MSFs) method. Firstly, based on the MSFs method, a sufficient condition for the existence of the passivity of the underlying system is established in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Furthermore, the problem of dynamic output feedback passive control is investigated. Based on the obtained passivity condition, a …

Tanto vale una hoz como un fusil, tanto un arado como una ametralladora ¡coordinemos nuestros instrumentos de guerra y trabajo contra el enemigo comú…

A la dreta falç i arada i a l'esquerra metralleta i fusell

A FAMILY OF THE SPIRAL SOLUTIONS OF THE NONLINEAR KLEIN‐GORDON EQUATION

1998

A family of the functions, intended for a construction the exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations, is given. Exact solutions of the Klein‐Gordon equation with a special potential are obtained. The behavior of complex and hypercomplex solutions of the second order is presented. First Published Online: 14 Oct 2010

Numerical experiments with single mode gyrotron equations

2012

Gyrotrons are microwave sources whose operation is based on the stimulated cyclotron radiation of electrons oscillating in a static magnetic field. This process is described by the system of two complex differential equations: nonlinear first order ordinary differential equation with parameter (averaged equation of electron motion) and second order partial differential equation for high frequency field (RF field) in resonator (Schrödinger type equation for the wave amplitude). The stationary problem of the single mode gyrotron equation in short time interval with real initial conditions was numerically examined in our earlier work. In this paper we consider the stationary and nonstationary …

Calculation of heat and moisture distribution in the porous media layer

2007

In this paper we study the problem of the diffusion of one substance through the pores of a porous material which may absorb and immobilize some of the diffusing substances with the evolution or absorption of heat. The transfer of moisture and the heat are described by the model. The system of two partial differential equations (PDEs) is derived, one equation expresses the rate of change of concentration of water vapour in the air spaces and the other the rate of change of temperature. The obtained initial‐boundary value problem is approximated by using the finite volume method. This procedure allows us to reduce the 2D transfer problem described by a system of PDEs to initial value problem…