Initially I was concerned with offline two-dimensional bin packing with one-dimensional vehicle routing. The problem is defined by a set of items, each having a height, a width and a destination distance within (0,1]. The destinations are aligned on the same road, along with the depot (starting point) on one side. The goal is to pack items into vehicles of 1 × 1 loading space, drive the vehicle...

Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) has developed and run our own Clearinghouse[1] for various academic researchers to share spatial data since 1999. This paper presents activities of the academic Clearinghouse and the backgrounds of it.

Background. For decades, the coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rate has been four or more times higher in Finland than in France despite comparable intakes of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat. A potential answer to this paradox is provided by this study of 40 countries and the analyses of other nutrients in the diets besides cholesterol and saturated fat. Medhds and Resuls. CHD death ...

ion-Based Misuse Detection: High-Level Specifications and Adaptable Strategies Jia-Ling Lin, X. Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia Center for Secure Information Systems George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 {jllin,xywang,jajodia}@gmu.edu http://isse.gmu.edu/ ̃csis

In the academic year 2001-2, Pace University CSIS students developed real-world Web and pervasive computing systems for actual customers. We describe the general use of team projects in CSIS at Pace University, the real-world projects from this academic year, the benefits of including real-world projects in the curriculum, and their cost in terms of the instructor load and the project developme...

Members from the order Bifidobacteriales, which include many species exhibiting health promoting effects, differ from all other organisms in using a unique pathway for carbohydrate metabolism, known as the "bifid shunt", which utilizes the enzyme phosphoketolase (PK) to carry out the phosphorolysis of both fructose-6-phosphate (F6P) and xylulose-5-phosphate (X5P). In contrast to bifidobacteria,...

The design of any complex products, such as information systems (IS), involves the coordination of different activities and knowledge. The systematisation of that knowledge must be considered in order to achieve IS levels of efficiency and effectiveness and to make organisations answers in turbulent times more agile. This paper presents an architecture of IS (CSIS – Concept System of Interventi...

Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7) [1], released in 2003, firmly established the term critical infrastructure protection and directed action be taken to identify, prioritize, and address the vulnerabilities to the systems and services that have relevance to the American way and quality of life. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) – are integral to the functioning of not only critical ...