In the context of structural design, risk optimization allows one to find a proper point of balance between the concurrent goals of economy and safety. Risk optimization involves the minimization of total expected costs, ...

Mainstream programming languages provide built-in exception handling mechanisms to support robust and maintainable implementation of exception handling in software systems. Most of these modern languages, such as C#, Ruby, ...

In this paper we build forecasts for Chilean year-on-year inflation using both multivariate and univariate time series models augmented with different measures of international inflation. We consider two versions of ...

The administration of electronic publication in the Information Era congregates old and new problems, especially those related with Information Retrieval and Automatic Knowledge Extraction. This article presents an ...

In this work, Tamm mode based devices were synthesized using mesoporous thin films as building blocks. Several systems were designed and built, based on silicon and titanium mesoporous oxides obtained through amphiphilic ...

Nowadays, wing-based systems represent imperative built-in constituents of many structures in a variety of fields. Consequently, robust modeling capable of accurately predicting such systems’ responses is an intriguing key ...

We develop and analyze a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method with optimal test functions (DPG method) for a shallow shell model of Koiter type. It is based on a uniformly stable ultraweak formulation and thus converges ...