Constraint Programming typically uses the technique of depth-first branch and bound as the method of solving optimisation problems. Although this method can give the optimal solution, for large problems, the time needed to find the optimal can be prohibitive. This paper introduces a method for using iterative improvement techniques within a Constraint Programming framework, and applies this tec...

We used a description of a combustion simulation's mathematical and computational methods to develop a version for parallel execution. The result was a reasonable performance improvement on small numbers of processors. We applied several important programming techniques, which we describe, in optimizing the application. This work has implications for programming languages, compiler design, and ...

Computational Thinking skills are basic and important to manipulate computers. Currently, several systems exist to provide a effective way to learn programming that use computers, smartphones, tablets, or programmable robots. Although studies have reported improved programming skills and motivation to learn programming using an on-screen application or a programmable robot, the benefits of thes...

Generation (or a posteriori) methods in Multi-Objective Mathematical Programming (MOMP) is the most computationally demanding category among the MOMP approaches. Due to the dramatic increase in computational speed and the improvement of Mathematical Programming algorithms the generation methods become all the more attractive among today’s decision makers. In the current paper we present the gen...

Earlier this year, Swedsoft (an industrial network of large Swedish software developers) called for an order of magnitude improvement in software development productivity over the next decade, if Sweden is to remain competitive. Coincidentally, an improvement of roughly an order of magnitude in productivity over conventional programming languages is the claim that has been made for functional p...

OBJECTIVE To find if patients experiencing postsurgical facial nerve stimulation caused by underlying disease process (ie, otosclerosis) can improve their hearing performance with their cochlear implant by reimplantation and by an optimal programming strategy. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Academic tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Two cochlear otosclerosis patients with resista...

Computational Thinking skills are basic and important to manipulate computers. Currently, several systems exist to provide an effective way to learn programming that use computers, smartphones, tablets, or programmable robots. Although studies have reported improved programming skills and motivation to learn programming using an on-screen application or a programmable robot, the benefits of the...