This paper analyzes the integration of two combinatorial problems that frequently arise in production and distribution systems. One is the Bin Packing Problem (BPP) problem, which involves finding an ordering of some objects ...

Low birth weight and preterm birth, and social disadvantage may negatively affect mental health of children, but findings have been inconsistent. To assess the influence of perinatal and social factors on mental health ...

A boolean network is a map F : {0, 1}(n) -> {0, 1}(n) that defines a discrete dynamical system by the subsequent iterations of F. Nevertheless, it is thought that this definition is not always reliable in the context of ...

This paper presents a method to solve the periodic vehicle routing problem with service frequency. The problem consists in finding a set of paths for a crew of vehicles to deliver products or services to a set of customers ...

Students in fourth grade should develop their critical thinking while performing their play at the same time as their second language is reinforced; developing. On the other hand, the writer looks forward to getting this ...

In this thesis, we study from a sample-based perspective four online selection problems that generalize two classic models: the secretary problem and the prophet inequality. In the first chapter, we propose a model we ...

The thesis consists of four parts. In the first part a problem which was discovered during our research for the Philosophy Masters course (2003) is brought back. We had determined that Kant systematically uses two terms ...