Motivated by evidence that parliament seatings are relevant for decision making, we consider the problem to assign seats in a members of parliament. We prove resulting seating assignment is strongly NP-hard several restricted settings. present Mixed Integer Programming formulation problem, describe two families valid inequalities and discuss symmetry-breaking constraints. Further, design heuris...

and is subject to annulment (negative procedure). It comes into force on 21 September, and will remain in force, unless they are annulled by the Parliament within 40 days, excluding the recess period, of being laid before the Parliament i.e. 9 October 2002. 2. The purpose of this instrument is to add the stadia used by Gretna and Inverurie Football Clubs to the list of designated sports grounds...

With increased calls for equal representation of the sexes in government throughout the world, various countries have employed gender-quota systems in their national legislatures. One such country, Rwanda, has achieved the number one rank of proportion of women in its national parliament, with 56.3 percent being women. However other countries, despite making similar attempts through enacting ge...