Litter has become a social problem. To prevent litter, we consider urban planning, the efficient placement of garbage bins, and interventions with litterers. In order to carry out these actions, need comprehensively grasp types locations litter in advance. However, existing methods, collecting is very costly low privacy. this research, have proposed conceptual design estimate using only sensor ...

The redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is one of the most commonly used approaches for improving reliability systems. present study investigates recent variant RAP, namely, RAP with heterogeneous components under mixed strategy. An exact branch-and-price (BP) algorithm proposed that solves in less than CPU second all benchmark instances reported literature. not only first a strategy but also a...

Abstract Background Mannose is a sugar monomer of the aldohexose series carbohydrates, important in human metabolism, especially glycosylation certain proteins. There handful controversial data from observational studies on serum levels mannose and risks renal disease. Purpose We performed Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis to obtain unconfounded estimates casual associations between genetic...

In the resource allocation problem (RAP), goal is to divide a given amount of over set activities while minimizing cost this and possibly satisfying constraints on allocations subsets activities. Most solution approaches for RAP its extensions allow each activity have own function. However, in many applications, often structure objective function same activity, difference between functions lies...

Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) is a supporting tool which widely spread in different areas of science and industry. Many researchers have confirmed that MCDM methods can be useful for selecting the best solution many problems. In this paper, two novel are presented applied on existing decision-making processes mining The first method multiple ranking by alternative trace (MCRAT) secon...

Apart from a shared focus on community relations, this year’s candidates for Notre Dame stu­ d en t body p re s id en t and vice president vary greatly in experi­ ence, goals and age. One ticket is led by current stu­ den t body vice p residen t Lizzi Shappell. Another is headed by Jason Laws, a m em ber of the 2004-05 national championship fencing team . Another two are completely comprised of...

In this work we extend previous results on moment-based characterization and minimal representation of stationary Markovian arrival processes (MAPs) and rational arrival processes (RAPs) to transient Markovian arrival processes (TMAPs) and Markovian binary trees (MBTs). We show that the number of moments that characterize a TMAP of size n with full rank marginal is n + 2n − 1, and an MBT of siz...

Procedures are at the heart of all crewed spacecraft operations. They are the accepted means to command systems. Current procedure representations do not lend themselves to automation. A new procedure representation language (PRL) is being proposed to NASA’s Constellation program to allow for procedures to be automated whenever possible. PRL is similar to many other procedural languages that ha...

Resource allocation problems are naturaly represented as constraint networks (CN), with constraints of inequality among activities that compete for the same resources at the same time 4]. A new algorithm for solving networks of RAPs is described and its detailed behavior is presented on a small example and on a real world problem. The proposed algorithm delays assignments of resources to select...

Die Bedeutung von IT-basierten Planungshilfen hat in den letzten Jahren zugenommen. Bedingt durch den Strukturwandel wachsen die Betriebsstrukturen und auf großen Betrieben wird vermehrt in moderne Technologien investiert. In dieser empirischen Studie wurde der Einfluss von betrieblichen und sozio-demografischen Faktoren auf die Adoption bzw. die Nutzung von ITbasierten Planungshilfen durch lan...