In coding theory, it is important to find upper bounds for the code size given a code length and minimum distance. The Hamming bounds and linear programming (LP) bounds were proposed in previous works. On the other ha...
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In coding theory, it is important to find upper bounds for the code size given a code length and minimum distance. The Hamming bounds and linear programming (LP) bounds were proposed in previous works. On the other hand, Masnick et al. proposed Unequal Error Protection (UEP) codes and modified Hamming bounds as upper bounds for the code size of UEP codes. In our previous work, we defined 2-level UEP codes as a subclass of UEP codes, and derived LP bounds for 2-level UEP codes. In this paper, we define multi-level UEP codes by extending 2-level UEP codes, and derive LP bounds for multi-level UEP codes. Moreover, we show that LP bounds for UEP codes are tighter upper bound than modified Hamming bounds.
In this paper we introduce a new operation for linear programming (LP), called LP complementation, which resembles many properties of LP duality. Given a maximisation (resp. minimisation) LP P, we define its complemen...
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In this paper we introduce a new operation for linear programming (LP), called LP complementation, which resembles many properties of LP duality. Given a maximisation (resp. minimisation) LP P, we define its complement Q as a specific minimisation (resp. maximisation) LP which has the same objective function as P. Our central result is the LP complementation theorem, that establishes the following relationship between the optimal value Opt(P) of P and the optimal value Opt(Q) of its complement: (Equation presented). The LP complementation operation can be applied if and only if P has an optimum value greater than 1. As it turns out, LP complementation has far-reaching implications. To illustrate this, we first apply LP complementation to hypergraphs. For any hypergraph H, we review the four classical LPs, namely covering K(H), packing P (H), matching M (H), and transversal T (H). For every hypergraph H = (V, E), we call H = (V, {V \ e: e ∈ E}) the complement of H. For each of the above four LPs, we relate the optimal values of the LP for the dual hypergraph H∗ to that of the complement hypergraph (Equation presented). As a second application of LP complementation, we consider fractional graph theory. We prove that the LP for the fractional in-dominating number of a digraph D is the complement of the LP for the fractional total out-dominating number of the digraph complement D of D. Furthermore we apply the hypergraph complementation theorem to matroids. We establish that the fractional matching number of a matroid coincide with its edge toughness. This result can then be applied to graphic matroids, yielding a formula for the edge toughness of a graph. Moreover, we derive an alternative proof of the relationship between the edge toughness of a matroid and the fractional covering number of its dual matroid. As our last application of LP complementation, we introduce the natural problem Vertex Cover with Budget (VCB): for a graph G = (V, E) and a positive integer b, w
Background and Objective: This study focuses on Multi-Channel Transcranial Electrical Stimulation, a non-invasive brain method for stimulating neuronal activity under the influence of low-intensity currents. We introd...
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This paper presents a method for scheduling resources in complex systems that integrate humans with diverse hardware and software components, and for studying the impact of resource schedules on system characteristics...
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This paper presents a method for scheduling resources in complex systems that integrate humans with diverse hardware and software components, and for studying the impact of resource schedules on system characteristics. The method uses discrete-event simulation and integer linear programming, and relies on detailed models of the system's processes, specifications of the capabilities of the system's resources, and constraints on the operations of the system and its resources. As a case study, we examine processes involved in the operation of a hospital emergency department, studying the impact staffing policies have on such key quality measures as patient length of stay (LoS), number of handoffs, staff utilization levels, and cost. Our results suggest that physician and nurse utilization levels for clinical tasks of 70% result in a good balance between LoS and cost. Allowing shift lengths to vary and shifts to overlap increases scheduling flexibility. Clinical experts provided face validation of our results. Our approach improves on the state of the art by enabling using detailed resource and constraint specifications effectively to support analysis and decision making about complex processes in domains that currently rely largely on trial and error and other ad hoc methods.
The continually increasing energy consumption represents a critical issue in modern heterogeneous computing systems. With the aid of dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS), task scheduling is considered an effective...
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The continually increasing energy consumption represents a critical issue in modern heterogeneous computing systems. With the aid of dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS), task scheduling is considered an effective software-based technique for reducing the total energy consumption and minimizing the overall schedule length (makespan). A natural solution is to reclaim the slack time in a given time-efficient schedule, which is also referred to as a two-pass method or a rescheduling method. A number of studies have focused on slack reclamation to achieve energy reductions through heuristics;although, these methods offer suboptimal solutions. In this article, the rescheduling optimization problem is formulated as a linear program for minimizing an energy objective function subject to precedence and deadline constraints implied in the given schedule. Two types of decision variables, ie, frequency duty factors and task intervals, are defined to set up the linear model. Consequently, an optimal solution to the problem can be provided in a straightforward manner by a linear programming solver, which suggests that such a rescheduling problem belongs to the P (polynomial time) class. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach and demonstrate that the performance is superior to that of other competitive algorithms in terms of both energy saving and runtime efficiency.
Distribution system reconfiguration (DSR) is a critical process that improves the power transfer efficiency and reduces the over-all operational cost. There have been various methods for addressing the DSR problems. R...
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Distribution system reconfiguration (DSR) is a critical process that improves the power transfer efficiency and reduces the over-all operational cost. There have been various methods for addressing the DSR problems. Recently, DSR problems formulated in mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has gained popularity as they generally can be solved by the state-of-the-art commercially accessible linear programming solvers, and is able to solve the system with thousands of unknown variables within a reasonable time. However, in some MILP formulations, the distribution line losses are omitted in the nodal power injections for the sake of simplicity. This compromises the accuracy of the linearised model and contributes to the disparity between the MILP and the true non-linear model. Hence, in this study, new formulations are introduced for embedding the expressions of line losses inside load flow equations so that the deviations between the modelled and exact losses notably reduce. Moreover, other novel formulations have also been presented for simultaneously optimising distributed generation (DG) locations and sizes, while at the same time considering various DG's modes of connection to the distribution grid. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed MILP model is tested on standard IEEE systems and actual distribution network.
A relevant challenge introduced by decentralized installations of photo-voltaic systems is the mismatch between green energy production and the load curve for domestic use. We advanced an ICT solution that maximizes t...
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A relevant challenge introduced by decentralized installations of photo-voltaic systems is the mismatch between green energy production and the load curve for domestic use. We advanced an ICT solution that maximizes the self-consumption by an intelligent scheduling of appliances. The predictive approach is complemented with a reactive one to minimize the short term effects due to prediction errors and to unforeseen loads. Using real measures, we demonstrated that such errors can be compensated modulating the usage of continuously running devices such as fridges and heat-pumps. linear programming is used to dynamically compute in real-time the optimal control of these devices.
This paper presents some improvements to the robot kinematic control strategy based on linear programming, as well as its application to a nonholonomic mobile manipulator. In addition to being computationally efficien...
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This paper presents some improvements to the robot kinematic control strategy based on linear programming, as well as its application to a nonholonomic mobile manipulator. In addition to being computationally efficient, this approach enables the inclusion of inequality and equality constraints in the system control inputs and has formal guarantee of stability. We first propose a new positive definite function of the error variation to avoid joint movements when the robot end-effector stabilizes at a point different from the desired one. In addition, the nonholonomic constraint of the mobile base is imposed as an equality constraint, and inequality constraints are defined to avoid both violation of joint limits and collisions between the mobile base and obstacles in the plane. Last, a performance comparison between the linear programming strategy and an approach based on the pseudoinverse of the whole-body Jacobian matrix is presented. Experimental results show that the controller based on linear programming has low computational cost, and the robot is able to control its end-effector without colliding with obstacles in the plane and without violating its joints limits. However, it tends to generate more abrupt control signals than the continuous controller based on the pseudoinverse of the whole-body Jacobian matrix.
Rank violation is a crucial criterion to decide the ordinal consistency of a priority vector derived from a pairwise comparison matrix. Popular prioritisation methods, such as the eigenvalue method, logarithmic least ...
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Rank violation is a crucial criterion to decide the ordinal consistency of a priority vector derived from a pairwise comparison matrix. Popular prioritisation methods, such as the eigenvalue method, logarithmic least squares, and weighted least squares have not guaranteed minimal rank violations even with cardinal consistency examination. This article closes this gap by proposing a linear-programming-based procedure to update a priority vector obtained by one of the popular prioritisation methods with a better one that ensures minimal rank violations. Taking advantage of rank preservation in an improved linear programming model, the proposed procedure can examine the feasibility of including inconsistent constraints with respect to a given priority vector, and hence determines the existence of a better priority vector with reduced rank violations. The process of obtaining updated priority vectors by the proposed procedure is demonstrated in classic examples.
The power industry is playing an increasingly important role in the world economy, and insufficient power supply may lead to huge enormous economic loss throughout the world. Then, the problem of power shortage is rec...
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The power industry is playing an increasingly important role in the world economy, and insufficient power supply may lead to huge enormous economic loss throughout the world. Then, the problem of power shortage is receiving a great deal of attention from operators and managers in electrical power system. With the merits of fast startup-shutdown, hydropower is regarded as one of the most reliable renewable energy sources to smooth the electricity shortage of power grid. Thus, this paper focuses on the operation of head-sensitive hydropower system considering power shortage aspect. To effectively address this problem, a novel method based on linear programming and successive approximation is proposed, where the initial hydraulic heads of each hydroplants is generated based on the actual working condition, and then the linear programming method is used to solve the fixed-head hydropower optimization problem involving a carefully-designed min-max optimization objective, while the successive approximation strategy is employed to incrementally improve the solution's quality by dynamically updating water heads of all the hydropower plants. The simulations demonstrate that compared with the original load demand, our method can make an average of approximate 20% reduction in electricity shortage of power system, demonstrating its effectiveness and practicability. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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