English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

Abstract In interactive multiobjective optimization methods, the preferences of a decision maker are incorporated in solution process to find solutions interest for problems with multiple conflicting objectives. Since exist these various trade-offs, crucial identify best solution(s). However, it is not necessarily clear how lead particular and, by introducing explanations we promote novel parad...

The human is a creature whose being is filled with instinctive and innate qualities. One of these qualities is the “Halū‘iyyat” which is noted in the Qur’ān 70:19 and discusses the sensitivity of the human to the good and the evil. There is a disagreement among the exegetes with regard to the interpretation of this verse. This article has adopted a descriptive-analytical method to examine the o...

Many planning applications must address conflicting plan objectives, such as cost, risk, duration, and resource consumption and decision makers want to know the possible trade-offs. Traditionally, such problems are solved by invoking a single-objective algorithm (such as A*) on multiple, alternative preferences of the objectives to identify non-dominated plans. The less-popular alternative is t...

The Bi-mode Insulated Gate Transistor BIGT is a single chip reverse conducting IGBT concept, which is foreseen to replace the standard IGBT / Diode two chip approach in many high power semiconductor applications. Therefore, it is necessary to understand in detail the design challenges and performance trade-offs faced when optimizing the BIGT for different application requirements. In this paper...

Today’s urban traffic network management strategies often overlook the interests of the individual road user, insufficiently consider travel choice behaviour and underestimate the importance of human psychology. Their effectiveness is at stake. This research contributes to knowledge about trade-offs between conflicting interests and objectives, by combining insights from traffic management, tra...

This article seeks to contribute the ongoing discussion on values in co-design processes, by introducing concepts from emerging field of valuation studies. Using work David Stark and Ignacio Farías as an entry point this perspective, it shows how can be understood a collective process finding negotiated settlements among conflicting accounts value, through practices coordination. idea is illust...

Power generation expansion planning inherently involves multiple, conflicting and incommensurate objectives. Therefore, mathematical models become more realistic if distinct evaluation aspects, such as cost and environmental concerns, are explicitly considered as objective functions rather than being encompassed by a single economic indicator. With the aid of multiple objective models, decision...