Environmental management and planning problems cover important real life areas. These problems may include the scarcity of groundwater resource, the optimality of a multi-reservoir system, the management of forest resources, the air quality monitoring networks, the municipal solid waste policies, etc. Management and planning targets by authorities consist in allocations at appropriate places an...

Multi-label classification refers to the task of predicting potentially multiple labels for a given instance. Conventional multi-label classification approaches focus on the single objective setting, where the learning algorithm optimizes over a single performance criterion (e.g. Ranking Loss) or a heuristic function. The basic assumption is that the optimization over one single objective can i...

The number of objectives in a multiobjective optimization problem strongly influences both the performance of generating methods and the decision making process in general. On the one hand, with more objectives, more incomparable solutions can arise, the number of which affects the generating method’s performance. On the other hand, the more objectives are involved the more complex is the choic...

In this paper, we propose and compare singleand multi-objective programming (MOP) approaches to the language model (LM) adaptation that require the optimization of a number of competing objectives. In LM adaptation, an adapted LM is found so that it is as close as possible to two independently trained LMs. The LM adaptation approach developed in this paper is based on reformulating the training...

The American Bison (Bison bison Linnaeus) in the Henry Mountains are one of the last free-roaming, genetically pure herds of bison remaining in North America. Anecdotal evidence indicates that this herd is utilising a cattle winter range during the summer and fall, creating a conflict between the state agency that manages the bison, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and local ranchers. In...

The states of the Western Balkans constitute a major source of ‘soft security’ threats to the EU. The EU attaches a great deal of importance to this subject, as reflected by the fact that justice and home affairs is officially one of the most prominent areas of cooperation in the region. This paper aims at elaborating on this process and poses as its key analytical question: What are the actual...