This is a companion to Robert Niven’s block 4, 2007lectures. I point to an alternative way of deriving the MaxEnt and the MinXEnt-distributions which is claimed to be more fundamental as well as technically a good deal simpler than the standard method via Lagrange multipliers (sic, still what you find in many (any ?) textbook you may pick up in this field). I hope you, the students in Robert’s ...

Around the world, there appears to be a growing concern with spirituality in the general public as well as among scholars. Whether one looks at the list of best-selling books, searches the Web, watches contemporary movies or TV shows, or reads general-interest magazines, one quickly finds evidence of this trend. And one sees religion and spirituality (mixed with nationalism and ethnic tensions)...

2 Education and Qualifications 1983 MEng. Manufacturing Sciences & Engineering University of Strathclyde 1987 Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology 2002 MSc. Computing: Software Technology (Distinction) The Robert Gordon University 2004 Postgraduate Cert. in Research Methods (Distinction) The Robert Gordon University 2006 PhD Computing Science The Ro...

ion in Search-Based Optimization Joxan Jaffar Andrew E. Santosa Răzvan Voicu School of Computing, National University of Singapore Republic of Singapore 117543 {joxan,andrews,razvan}@comp.nus.edu.sg

Neil Winterburn Peggy Gregory Dan Fitton School of Computing School of Computing School of Computing Engineering & Physical Science Engineering & Physical Science Engineering & Physical Science University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire Preston, PR1 2HE, Preston, PR1 2HE, Preston, PR1 2HE, [email protected] [email protected] dbf...

As AI*IA is now a quarter of a century old, we thought it appropriate to celebrate the event with a special issue. They say that at 25 all neurons are still there, and creativity is at its peak. Yet I hope a lot more will happen and the Italian AI scene will continue to develop stronger and stronger. The potential is great as it seems that in our environment “maturity” does not entail “conserva...

Robert Fourer Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA [email protected] Jun Ma Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA [email protected] Kipp Martin Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, U...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor Robert Krasny, without whom this thesis would never have been possible. The highest standard he always sets for himself has been inspiring me over all these years. Beside the knowledge he has taught me, I am particularly grateful for his enormous patience and encouragement during many periods when no progress in was made. I look forward to worki...

Aleksandar Donev, 2 Robert Connelly, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato 2, 4, 5, ∗ Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544 PRISM, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544 Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544 Princeton Center for Theoretical Phys...