This paper presents our working notes for FIRE 2017, Information Retrieval from Legal documents -Task 2 (Precedence retrieval). Common Law Systems around the world recognize the importance of precedence in Law. In making decisions, Judges are obliged to consult prior cases that had already been decided to ensure that there is no divergence in treatment of similar situations in different cases. ...

The paper introduces value precedence on integer and set sequences. A useful application of the notion is in breaking symmetries of indistinguishable values, an important class of symmetries in practice. Although value precedence can be expressed straightforwardly using if-then constraints in existing constraint programming systems, the resulting formulation is inefficient both in terms of size...

It has been reported that many elderly persons exhibit problems in identifying the location of fused auditory images in a test of the precedence effect in sound localization. The precedence effect involves the neural integration of multiple competing binaural temporal cues, and may reflect subtle age-related neural timing or integration problems. This study investigated whether elderly persons ...

The historical research line on the algebraic properties of structured CF languages initiated by McNaughton’s Parenthesis Languages has recently attracted much renewed interest with the Balanced Languages, the Visibly Pushdown Automata languages (VPDA), the Synchronized Languages, and the Height-deterministic ones. Such families preserve to a varying degree the basic algebraic properties of Reg...

In this paper we study an extension of the classical Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) with minimum makespan objective by introducing a further type of precedence constraints denoted as “Feeding Precedences” (FP). This kind of problem happens in that production planning environment, like make-to-order manufacturing, when the effort associated with the execution of an activ...

In this paper, it is investigated how to sequence jobs with fuzzy processing times and predict their due dates on a single machine such that the total weighted possibilistic mean value of the weighted earliness–tardiness costs is minimized. First, an optimal polynomial time algorithm is put forward for the scheduling problem when there are no precedence constraints among jobs. Moreover, it is s...

We consider the single machine parallel-batching scheduling problem with precedence relations, release dates and identical processing times to minimize a regular objective function. When the processing times are unit, we give an O(n) time optimal algorithm. When there are no precedence relations, we solve this problem by dynamic programming in O(n) time. When the precedence relations are “layer...

Global precedence was examined in 8 baboons and 14 humans using compound stimuli presented in the left visual hemifield (LVF) or the right visual hemifield (RVF). Humans showed a global advantage and global-to-local interference. Baboons showed a local advantage and no interference. For humans and baboons, a LVF advantage appeared for global matching and an unsignificant RVF advantage appeared ...

We provide a general scheme for constructing monotone algorithms for a wide class C of scheduling problems Q|prec, rj |γ on related machines with precedence constraints and/or release dates. Our scheme works in the offline and the online setting. It takes as input two approximation/competitive algorithms for the (simpler) scheduling problems P |prec, rj |γ on identical machines and 1|prec, rj |...

Elementary, middle, and high school mathematics teachers (N = 105) ranked a set of mathematics problems based on expectations of their relative problem-solving difficulty. Teachers also rated their levels of agreement to a variety of reform-based statements on teaching and learning mathematics. Analyses suggest that teachers hold a symbol-precedence view of student mathematical development, whe...