BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients received by radiotherapy departments are diverse and may be diagnosed with different cancers. Therefore, they need different radiotherapy treatment plans and thus have different needs for medical resources. This research aims to explore the best method of scheduling the admission of patients receiving radiotherapy so as to reduce patient loss and maximize the usa...

The current research aims to investigate the effectiveness of brain-rewiring techniques applied in virtual reality environments as a pioneer intervention for people with learning disabilities and various disorders. In addition, we examine whether these VR-assisted can improve metacognitive skills. Specifically, emphasize advantage VR clinical hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, subliminal tr...

An important factor in an efficient operation of freight railroad companies is their ability to obtain routes and schedules that improve rail network capacity utilization. In this paper we present a decision tool to aid train planners obtain quickly good quality routes and schedules for short time horizons (e.g., daily) to better manage the limited track capacity available for train movements. ...

Coordination languages are a new class of parallel programming languages which manage the interactions among concurrent programs. Basically, coordination is achieved either by manipulating data values shared among all active processes or by dynamically evolving the interconnections among the processes as a consequence of observations of their state changes. The latter, also called control-drive...

The untyped lambda calculus was introduced around 1930 by Church [11] as part of an investigation in the formal foundations of mathematics and logic. Although lambda calculus is a very basic language, it is sufficient to express all the computable functions. The process of application and evaluation reflects the computational behavior of many modern functional programming languages, which expla...

This chapter introduces the concept of improving student memory retention using a distance learning tool by establishing the student’s communication preference and learning style before the student uses the module contents. It argues that incorporating a distance learning tool with an intelligent/interactive tutoring system using various components (psychometric tests, communication preference ...

Bi-objective portfolio optimization for minimizing risk and maximizing expected return has received considerable attention using evolutionary algorithms. Although the problem is a quadratic programming (QP) problem, the practicalities of investment often make the decision variables discontinuous and introduce other complexities. In such circumstances, usual QP solution methodologies can not alw...

The competitiveness of retail stores depends heavily on the ability to handle the challenges of reducing control costs and increasing customer service levels. One element that affects cost significantly is labour costs. This paper addresses proposing a procedure of finding the optimal solutions of personnel planning, especially by making use of the actual Point of Sales (POS) data and consideri...