Status of this Memo This internet draft is an informal proposal. It is hoped that this work may influence future Internet Standards, but this draft does not represent a standard. This paper represents the personal opinion of the author, although some of the ideas presented are borrowed from other sources. Abstract Frequently a router may have multiple sources of information about paths through ...

This paper introduces the Spaceelling Curve with Optimal Partitioning (SFC OP) heuristic strategy for producing solutions to the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). This heuristic has the property that it generates good routes extremely quickly and the time required increases nearly linearly with problem size. Additionally, the SFC OP heuristic can easily be modiied to generate routes to VRP formula...

The underrepresentation of women in engineering is often explained by gender differences in interests or abilities, learning environments and learning styles, or the uncertainty of the job market. But young women in Norway have largely overcome many of the traditional gender differences, and the job market is favourable. However, female engineering students lack role models and networks. Many l...

People v. Simpson, dubbed by many as "the trial of the century," was an expensive court case that taxed Los Angeles County's coffers. Many creative, and occasionally unconstitutional, proposals were suggested to lessen the county's hardship, but none were implemented. While the Simpson case may have captured the nation's attention, it was a poor justification to radically alter how the courts' ...

Th e Impact of Spoilers on Peace Processes and Peacebuilding M ceasefires and peace agreements in civil wars are initially unsuccessful and give way to renewed violence. In other cases, peace processes have become interminably protracted: lengthy and circular negotiations in which concessions are rare and even if agreements are reached they falter at the implementation phase. State-building and...

In a Serial-Parallel Multistage Manufacturing System (SP-MMS), identical work-stations are utilized at each stage to meet the productivity and line balance requirements. In such a system, parts could go through different process routes and some routes may merge at certain stage(s). Due to the existence of multiple variation streams, it is challenging to model and analyze variation propagation i...