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17-34 Monitoring interaction in organisations

Dastani M.; Van Der Torre L.; Yorke-Smith N. (Springer Verlag;, 2013)

In an organisational setting, such as an online marketplace, the organisation monitors agent interactions, and enforces norms by means of sanctions. This paper provides an operational semantics for agent interactions within ...
A branch-and-bound algorithm for single-machine scheduling with batch delivery and job release times

Mahdavi Mazdeh M.; Sarhadi M.; Hindi K.S. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2008)

This paper addresses scheduling a set of jobs with specified release times on a single machine for delivery in batches to customers or to other machines for further processing. This problem is a natural extension of ...
A branch-and-bound algorithm for single-machine scheduling with batch delivery minimizing flow times and delivery costs

Mazdeh M.M.; Sarhadi M.; Hindi K.S. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2007)

This paper addresses scheduling a set of jobs on a single machine for delivery in batches to customers or to other machines for further processing. The problem is a natural extension of minimizing the sum of flow times by ...
A case study in model selection for policy engineering: Simulating maritime customs

Harb H.; Srour F.J.; Yorke-Smith N. (, 2012)

The progress of containers through customs is more often an exercise in negotiation rather than a structured queuing process. As soon as a regulatory process involves negotiation, corruption becomes a factor. Studies by ...
A constraint propagation heuristic for the single-hoist, multiple-products scheduling problem

Hindi K.S.; Fleszar K. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2004)

A heuristic algorithm for solving the single-hoist, multiple-product scheduling problem is presented. The algorithm uses a non-standard Constraint Satisfaction Problem model and employs variable ordering, forward checking ...
A constraint-based approach to scheduling an individual's activities

Refanidis I.; Yorke-Smith N. (NEW YORK2 PENN PLAZA, STE 701, NEW YORK, NY 10121-0701 USA, 2010)

The goal of helping to automate the management of an individual's time is ambitious in terms both of knowledge engineering and of the quality of the plans produced by an AI system. Modeling an individual's activities is ...
A constructive bin-oriented heuristic for the two-dimensional bin packing problem with guillotine cuts

Charalambous C.; Fleszar K. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2011)

A new heuristic algorithm for solving the two-dimensional bin-packing problem with guillotine cuts (2DBPG) is presented. The heuristic constructs a solution by packing a bin at a time. Central to the adopted solution scheme ...
A critical assessment of a proposed public private partnership (PPP) for the management of water services in Lebanon

Yamout G.; Jamali D. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2007)

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly heralded as an innovative policy intervention in the context of critical urban infrastructure services where outright privatization and loss of control are considered ...
A design methodology for fault-tolerance in a DICOM-compliant data storage grid

Documet J.; Zhou Z.; Liu B.J.; King N.; Huang H.K. (, 2006)

With the increasing demand of PAC systems, more and more examinations are acquired by healthcare institutions which results in an enormous amount of image data and metadata information that needs to be archived and retrieved ...
A hybrid searching method for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem

Charalambous C.; Fleszar K.; Hindi K.S. (2010)

The work addresses the NP-hard problem of scheduling a set of jobs to unrelated parallel machines with the overall objective of minimizing makespan. The solution presented proposes a greedy constructive algorithm followed ...
A joint model for cash and inventory management for a retailer under delay in payments

Moussawi-Haidar L.; Jaber M.Y. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2013)

As retail companies continue to navigate through the economy downturn, it becomes critical to find innovative cost reduction methods. Cash management is a cost-intensive process for retailers, who are currently focusing ...
A mixed integer programming formulation for solving operating theatre layout problem: A multi-goal approach

Chraibi A.; Kharraja S.; Osman I.H.; Elbeqqali O. (IEEE Computer Society;, 2013)

Facility Layout Problem (FLP) has been widely used in industrial systems to manage the space and the facilities within the floor space. The layout has a great impact on the productivity and the efficiency of running an ...
A multi-objective mixed-integer programming model for a multi-section operating theatre facility layout

Chraibi A.; Kharraja S.; Osman I.H.; Elbeqqali O. (SciTePress;, 2014)

The operating theater layout problem (OTLP) in a hospital aims to determine for a set of facilities their positions and orientations on the floor-layout of departments in a hospital subject to a set of constraints on ...
A novel bayesian similarity measure for recommender systems

Guo G.; Zhang J.; Yorke-Smith N. (, 2013)

Collaborative filtering, a widely-used user-centric recommendation technique, predicts an item's rating by aggregating its ratings from similar users. User similarity is usually calculated by cosine similarity or Pearson ...
A PROBE-based heuristic for graph partitioning

Chardaire P.; Barake M.; McKeown G.P. (LOS ALAMITOS10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1314 USA, 2007)

A new heuristic algorithm, PROBE BA, based onthe recently introduced metaheuristic paradigm PROBE (PopulationReinforced Optimization Based Exploration) is proposedfor solving the Graph Partitioning Problem. The exploration ...
A review of survival trees

Bou-Hamad I.; Larocque D.; Ben-Ameur H. (, 2011)

This paper presents a non-technical account of the developments in tree-based methods for the analysis of survival data with censoring. This review describes the initial developments, which mainly extended the existing ...
A service value approach to the micro-organizational networks of e-prescribing

King N. (, 2011)

Value realization in service networks, such as healthcare, is receiving increasing attention as governments battle rising costs. But before value realization can be understood, there needs to be a conceptualization of the ...
A stakeholder approach to corporate social responsibility: A fresh perspective into theory and practice

Jamali D. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2008)

Stakeholder theory has gained currency in the business and society literature in recent years in light of its practicality from the perspective of managers and scholars. In accounting for the recent ascendancy of stakeholder ...
A study of customer satisfaction in the context of a public private partnership

Jamali D. (, 2007)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an original satisfaction survey in the context of a new public private partnership (PPP) in the Lebanese postal sector, highlighting traditionally overlooked ...
A tabu search procedure based on a random Roulette diversification for the weighted maximal planar graph problem

Osman I.H. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2006)

An efficient and effective tabu search implementation for the weighted maximal planar graph problem is proposed. The search incorporates a number of novel features including: the introduction of a new set of two-move ...

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