This paper explores many important properties of negations using the neighborhood semantics. We generalize the correspondence between the properties of negations and the conditions on the frames and also establish the duality between distributive lattices with negation and descriptive general negation-neighborhood frames.

The Minimum Coloring Cut Problem is defined as follows: given a connected graph G with colored edges, find an edge cut E′ of G (a minimal set of edges whose removal renders the graph disconnected) such that the number of colors used by the edges in E′ is minimum. In this work, we present two approaches based on Variable Neighborhood Search to solve this problem. Our algorithms are able to find ...

Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic for solving optimization problems based on a systematic change of neighborhoods. In recent years, a large variety of VNS strategies have been proposed. However, we have only found limited experimental comparisons among different VNS variants. This paper reviews three VNS strategies for finding near-optimal solutions for vertex-cut minimizati...

A. We present a generalization of Segerberg’s onion semantics for belief revision, in which the linearity of the spheres need not occur. The resulting logic is called broccoli logic. We provide a minimal relational logic, introducing a new neighborhood semantics operator. We then show that broccoli logic is a well-known conditional logic, the Burgess-Veltman minimal conditional logic.

A VNS-based heuristic using both a facility as well as a customer type neighbourhood structure is proposed to solve the p-centre problem in the continuous space. Simple but effective enhancements to the original Elzinga-Hearn algorithm as well as a powerful ‘locate-allocate’ local search used within VNS are proposed. In addition, efficient implementations in both neighbourhood structures are pr...

The stabilisation through regional and multilateral cooperation within the framework of the European Union is the topic today. These terms are all part of standard political discourse in South East Europe, often accompanied by description of abundant initiatives by various regional or multilateral organisations. What is more often lacking is an explicit idea about how these institutional initia...