Title : 
Applications of semirings in engineering and social sciences
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Math. & Inf., Univ. of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
There are presented two recent applications of special semirings. There is introduced an innovative concept in modelling operations of container quay cranes based on pseudo-analysis in the form of maxplus semiring. In social sciences the ordering on a semiring of monotone doubly stochastic matrices in Shorrocks´ sense is investigated. It is identified a class of an equilibrium index of mobility that induces the full ordering in a semiring.
         
        
            Keywords : 
containerisation; cranes; group theory; matrix algebra; optimisation; sea ports; social sciences; stochastic processes; Shorrock sense; container quay crane operation modelling; engineering; equilibrium index; maxplus semiring; monotone doubly stochastic matrix; social science; special semirings; Algebra; Containers; Cranes; Economics; Markov processes; Mathematical model;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI), 2010 11th International Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Budapest
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-9279-4
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-9280-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CINTI.2010.5672278