This research proposes a normative approach in two infrastructural manufacturing decisions: quality and product development. Quality, as employed in the research, is defined as satisfying customer needs given a market segment. Product defects lead to customer dissatisfaction and have a negative...

Two aspects of small signal analysis of power systems are investigated in this dissertation. The first part presents the eigenvalue tracking method for power system stabilizer (PSS) placement. Traditional methods for determining PSS placements are based on the analysis of the interconnected...

In this paper, we provide a methodology to design strategies for either guaranteed capture or guaranteed evasion in the case of pursuit-evasion games with multiple players which are represented by nonlinear dynamic models. This methodology is based on the continuously differentiable upper and...