The management of environmental programs affects a great variety of issues and involves several stakeholders with diverse, and often conflicting, concerns. Any methodology proposed for environmental decision making should, then, be capable of integrating technical and value-laden objectives in a framework which ensures process transparency. Furthermore, only a methodology simple and easy to imp...

Millions of malware samples are reported everyday, but cannot be carefully reviewed one by one due to the time limitation of human analysts. A ranking list to recommend the most important samples for our human analysts is thus desirable. In this thesis, we propose two different criteria to evaluate the importance of each sample. For each criterion, several popular algorithms are applied to choo...

We consider a broadcast model involving multiple transmitters and receivers. Transmission is performed in rounds, where in each round any transmitter is allowed to broadcast a single message, and each receiver can receive only a single broadcast message, determined by a priority permutation over the transmitters. The message received by receiver R in a given transmission round is the one sent b...

A decade of research reveals the benefits of positive emotions for mental and physical health; however, recent empirical work suggests the explicit pursuit of happiness may backfire. The present study hypothesized that the pursuit of happiness is not inherently self-defeating; in particular, individuals who seek positivity, as exemplified by how they make decisions about how to organize their d...

Product managers in software companies are confronted with a continuous stream of incoming requirements. Due to limited resources they have to make a selection of those that can be implemented. However, few prioritization techniques are suitable for prioritizing larger numbers of requirements. Binary Priority List (BPL) is a binary search based technique for prioritizing requirements. Academics...