Optimal three-part tariff pricing and marketing strategies for consumer overconfidence.

Experts in traditional pricing literature often assume that consumers are rational in their purchasing decisions, and tend to ignore the effect of psychological behavior. One of the fundamental irrational psychological behaviors is overconfidence, which refers to overestimation. The benefits of three-part tariffs under demand uncertainty caused by overconfident consumers have been demonstrated in various forms.

Practically Predefined-Time Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems.

This article addresses the practically predefined-time adaptive fuzzy tracking control problem of strict-feedback nonlinear stochastic systems, where the system under consideration includes stochastic disturbances and uncertain parameters. First, in this study, practically predefined-time stochastic stabilization (PPSS) in the p th moment sense is introduced, and a Lyapunov-type criterion for PPSS is proposed to assure the stabilization of the system considered. With these ideas, based on the backstepping design method, a semiglobally practically predefined-time adaptive fuzzy tracking control algorithm is proposed with a fuzzy system used to approximate the unknown part of the system.

Event-Triggered SMC for Networked Markov Jumping Systems With Channel Fading and Applications: Genetic Algorithm.

The event-triggered sliding-mode control (SMC) for discrete-time networked Markov jumping systems (MJSs) with channel fading is investigated by means of a genetic algorithm. In order to reduce resource consumption in the transmission process, an event-triggered protocol is adopted for networked MJSs. A key feature is that the signal transmission is inevitably affected by fading phenomenon due to delay, random noise, and amplitude attenuation in a networked environment.