In this paper we attempt to introduce dynamics into the theory of cooperative games. A solution of the game is reached through an allocation process. At each stage of the allocation process of a cooperative game a budget of fixed size is distributed among the players. In the first part of this note we study a type of process that, at any stage, endows the budget to a player whose contribution t...

We proposed a mixed-integer program to model the management of C. trachomatis infections in women visiting publicly funded family planning clinics. We intended to maximize the number of infected women cured of C. trachomatis infections. The model incorporated screening, re-screening, and treatment options for three age groups with respective age-specific C. trachomatis infection and re-infectio...

Online algorithms that process one example at a time are advantageous when dealing with very large data or with data streams. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is such an algorithm and it is an attractive choice for online Support Vector Machine (SVM) training due to its simplicity and effectiveness. When equipped with kernel functions, similarly to other SVM learning algorithms, SGD is suscept...

Personal income tax is a on wages or salaries and other person earns during calendar year. It calculated the of all resident individuals each government imposes personal earnings according to its fiscal package. The taxable incomes has been focus latest package Albanian Government approved by end December 2019 starting from January 2020, changes effect larger category people. This paper focused...

OBJECTIVES This study developed a smartphone nutritional application (app) for making smart and healthy choices when purchasing food in grocery stores and tested its feasibility, usability, satisfaction and acceptability. METHODS "MyNutriCart" was developed following the ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) model. The goals of the app were to improve food sele...

The research of influence propagation in social networks via word-of-mouth processes has been given considerable attention in recent years. Arguably, the most fundamental problem in this domain is the influence maximization problem, where the goal is to identify a small seed set of individuals that can trigger a large cascade of influence in the network. While there has been significant progres...

BACKGROUND The physical and social environment influences access to a healthy lifestyle, of which transport is one determining factor. This paper estimates the cost of transport on the island of Ireland. METHODS Budget standards were developed on the basis of costs of baskets of core goods and services required for daily living. The transport budget was based on the needs of an urban living f...