The Integer Knapsack Problem with Set-up Weights (IKPSW) is a generalization of the classical Integer Knapsack Problem (IKP), where each item type has a set-up weight that is added to the knapsack if any copies of the item type are in the knapsack solution. The k-item IKPSW (kIKPSW) is also considered, where a cardinality constraint imposes a value k on the total number of items in the knapsack...

The way people do the business and transactions are changing drastically with the advent of Information Technology. The customer wants to access information, goods and services any time and in any place on his mobile device. Receiving financial data, trade on stock exchanges, accessing balances, paying bills and transfer funds using SMS are done through mobile phones. Due to involvement of valu...

Designing distributed protocols is challenging, as it requires actions at very different levels: from the choice of network-level mechanisms to protect the exchange of sensitive data, to the definition of structured interaction patterns to convey application-specific guarantees. Current security infrastructures provide very limited support for the specification of such guarantees. As a conseque...

Designing distributed protocols is complex and requires actions at very different levels: from the design of an interaction flow supporting the desired application-specific guarantees, to the selection of the most appropriate network-level protection mechanisms. To tame this complexity, we propose AnBx, a formal protocol specification language based on the popular Alice & Bob notation. AnBx off...

This talk describes the reasons why η and η decays are an interesting topic of study for both theory and experiment. The main part discusses the results of the recent calculation of η → 3π at two-loop order in ChPT. Some puzzling aspects of the results compared to earlier dispersive calculations are highlighted. I also like to remind the reader of the use of η and η decays for studying the anom...

Parallel manipulators are an interesting alternative to serial robots given the important mechanical and kinematic advantages offered. Nevertheless, they often present more complex and smaller workspaces with internal singularities (Altuzarra et al., 2004; Gosselin & Angeles, 1990). Thus, the workspace size, shape and quality are considered some of the main design criteria of these robots (Merl...

ABSTRACT Background: Root cause analysis (RCA) is a process used by hospitals to reduce the level of patient safety incidents. The minimized application root has resulted in inevitable Research objectives: ​​ This study aims determine RCA incidents hospitals. Method: method this was literature review. Articles were obtained through Pubmed, SAGE, and Google Scholar databases published 2016-2021....