People base many decisions on affective forecasts, predictions about their emotional reactions to future events. They often display an impact bias, overestimating the intensity and duration of their emotional reactions to such events. One cause of the impact bias is focalism, the tendency to underestimate the extent to which other events will influence our thoughts and feelings. Another is peop...

This paper focuses on job shop scheduling problems in a cooperative environment. Unlike classical deterministic approaches, we assume that jobs are not known in advance but occur randomly during the production process, as orders appear. Therefore, the production schedule is adapted in a reactive manner all along the production process. These schedule adaptations are made according to a cooperat...

This paper addresses the problem of maintaining the consistency of a pre-defined schedule during its execution in a real or simulated environment. This issue, referred to as Reactive Scheduling Problem, is known to be inherently difficult due to the usually strict timelines in which the revising procedure is called to react. Schedule revision must be quick, and sometimes solution quality must c...

This paper deals with a tool which may help maintenance manager to schedule maintenance activities. To help him, we show that by using events which can be observed on a process, like maintenance events, we can predict failures before they occur. Principles are based on the hypothesis that failure is preceded by a typical sequence of events. We also show that Hidden Markov Models can be used acc...

Valeri Petkov,1,* Yong Peng,1 Geoff Williams,2 Baohua Huang,3,* Donald Tomalia,3 and Yang Ren4 1Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA 2Department of Biology, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA 3Dendritic NanoTechnologies, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858, USA 4Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Il...

I October 2016, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to approve the Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older, United States, 2017. The 2017 adult immunization schedule summarizes ACIP recommendations in 2 figures, footnotes for the figures, and a table of contraindications and precautions for vaccines recommended for adults (Figure). The...