Resolving splits in location/allocation modeling: a heuristic procedure for transit center decisions

Developing Transit-oriented Strategies for Sanandaj City Center, Iran

Over recent decades, "Transit-oriented development" has been developed as a new approach based on sustainability concepts. This approach is mainly concerning coordinated action between land use planning and transportation planning which tries to create a clean, people friendly, livable, and dynamic community with growing local economy. Today, old urban centers face enormous challenges in terms ...

Human Decisions in User Modeling: Motivation, Procedure and Example Application

The aim of this study was to investigate the use and potential of the psychological theory of human-behavior modeling, called the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), in a user-modeling domain. We performed a user experiment involving a well-studied problem of user modeling, i.e., a recommender system (RS) for movies. As a part of the TPB, a survey to estimate the behavioral, normative and control...

A Heuristic Transit Network Design Algorithm for Medium Size Towns

A Heuristic Approach for Resolving the Class Responsibility Assignment Case

This paper describes one of the solutions for the ninth Transformation Tool Contest (TTC ’16), which resolves the Class Responsibility Assignment Case using a transformation tool based on Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic. In this project, these relatively unusual technologies are used to effectively enhance the processing of large models and matrices throughout different test cases proposed for...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...