Our past columns have emphasized repeatedly that modeling is the single most important activity in mechatronics, which is becoming the design process of choice for successful multidisciplinary systems ...

The basic problem of linear programming (LP) is to maximize or minimize a function of several variables subject to a number of constraints. The functions being optimized and the constraints are linear ...

Structural equation modeling (SEM) encompasses such diverse statistical techniques as path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, causal modeling with latent variables, and even analysis of variance ...