The YinNan Irrigation District in NingXia, China diverts each year about 1.6 - 109 m3 water from the Yellow River for irrigation use. More than half of that water is discharged back to the downstream channel or some low-lying depressions as a result of agricultural drainage. Several studies...

This paper proposes a new nonlinear interval programming method that can be used to handle uncertain optimization problems when there are dependencies among the interval variables. The uncertain domain is modeled using a multidimensional parallelepiped interval model. The model depicts...

When the estimating function for a vector of parameters is not smooth, it is often rather difficult, if not impossible, to obtain a consistent estimator by solving the corresponding estimating equation using standard numerical techniques. In this paper, we propose a simple inference procedure...

A presumption of most consumer research is that consumers endeavor to maximize the utility of their choices and are in complete control of their purchasing and consumption behavior. However, everyday life experience suggests that many of our choices are not all that reasoned or conscious....

Purpose – Aims to introduce a self‐adjusting robotic painting process for automotive fuel containers, capable of predicting the required correction action to avoid further defect production. Design/methodology/approach – Presents the development, testing and on‐site implementation of a...