We consider algorithms to schedule packets with values and deadlines in a size-bounded buffer. At any time, the buffer can store at most B packets. Packets arrive over time. Each packet has a non-negative value and an integer deadline. In each time step, at most one packet can be sent. The objective is to maximize the total value gained by delivering packets no later than their respective deadl...

Dr. Gerald N. Glickman, President, Baylor College of Dentistry Dr. Stephen K. Young, President-elect, University of Oklahoma Dr. Leo E. Rouse, Immediate Past President, Howard University Dr. Ryan T. Hajek, Vice President for Students, Residents, and Fellows, University of Nebraska Medical Center Dr. Pamela J. Hughes, Vice President for Hospitals and Advanced Education Programs, University of Mi...

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We investigate in this paper the properties of multimodular functions. In doing so we give alternative proofs for properties already established by Hajek, and we extend his results. In particular, we show the relation between convexity and multimodularity, which allows us to restrict the study of multimodular functions to convex subsets of Z m. We then obtain general optimization results for av...

Beek (2016) argued that Rubus aetnicus Cupani ex Weston was the correct name of taxon then called R. canescens DC., and which previously known as tomentosus Borkh. Moreover, stated to be not identical with aetnicus, but rather a form × collinus DC. Matzke-Hajek raised objections both statements. Therefore, aim this study thoroughly analyse names support analysis field work at type localities by...

The Imitation Game (Alan M. Turing, 1950), now commonly known as the Turing Test (see, e.g., Oppy and Dowe, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test, 2003), was proposed as a way in which thinking or intelligence could be ascribed to any agent including a computer program or machine able to play the game. People routinely ascribe intelligence to humans and other animals by a variety of mea...

The bounded delay buffer management problem, which was proposed by Kesselman et al. (STOC 2001 and SIAM Journal on Computing 33(3), 2004), is an online problem focusing of a switch supporting Quality Service (QoS). definition as follows: Packets arrive to over time each packet specified the release time, deadline value. An algorithm can transmit at most one from integer gain its value profit if...

frequent finding in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies evaluating individuals with bipolar disorder compared with healthy controls. Such findings have been reported in individuals with the early stages of bipolar disorder as well as in their unaffected relatives, and this has been taken as suggestive that white-matter hyperintensities could reflect abnormal neurodevelopmental processes in...

Drift analysis is a powerful tool used to bound the optimization time of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). Various previous works apply a drift theorem going back to Hajek in order to show exponential lower bounds on the optimization time of EAs. However, this drift theorem is tedious to read and to apply since it requires two bounds on the moment-generating (exponential) function of the drift. A ...

This paper is a preliminary phonetic exploration of aspects of the well-known Italian sandhi phenomenon of Raddoppiamento sintattico (henceforth RS), which involves the gemination of word-initial consonants under certain conditions, eg dei [k]ani ‘‘some dogs’’ but tre [kk]ani ‘‘three dogs’’. It is often assumed that RS C-gemination is regular, but there is increasing evidence that it competes w...