In this paper, two methods named distance and triangle methods are extended to evaluate the quality of approximation of the Pareto set from solving bi-objective problems. In order to use evaluation methods, a bi-objective problem is needed to define. It is considered the problem of scheduling jobs in a hybrid flow shop environment with sequence-dependent setup times and the objectives of minimi...

This paper develops a method for nodal pricing and market clearing mechanism considering reliability of the system. The effects of components reliability on electricity price, market participants’ profit and system social welfare is considered. This paper considers reliability both for evaluation of market participant’s optimality as well as for fair pricing and market clearing mechanism. To ac...

Recent proposals suggest that some interventions designed to improve language skills might also target or train selective attention. The present study examined whether six weeks of high-intensity (100 min/day) training with a computerized intervention program designed to improve language skills would also influence neural mechanisms of selective auditory attention previously shown to be deficie...

The articles in this issue eff ectively summarize three decades of Problem Based Learning (PBL) research. The meta-analysis (Walker & Leary) and meta-synthesis (Strobel & van Barneveld) articles review outcomes of studies conducted from 1976 to 2007 that compared a PBL curriculum to a traditional curriculum. The third article off ers a critique of assessments used in these studies. This comment...

In this contribution, it is introduced a linguistic dynamic multi-criteria decision-making model to solve decision problems in which time dimension is included in the solving process, and the decision-maker provides the assessments by means of linguistic terms. An illustrative example of linguistic dynamic multicriteria decision-making is exhibited.

Conceptual models communicate the important aspects of a problem domain to stakeholders. The models therefore should be accessible to users who need to interpret them. On the other hand, the quality of the produced models is highly dependent on the usability of the modelling method used. This paper presents a series of usability assessments conducted on a method that integrates the use of a sem...

Does birthright citizenship boost immigrant children’s educational participation and success? We address this question relying on a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 to birthright citizenship. We isolate the impact of birthright citizenship by comparing children born shortly before and shortly after the cutoff in years of policy ch...