The paper aims to present an application of constraint programming techniques for project portfolio scheduling taking into account the imprecision in activity duration and cost. Data specification in the form of discrete α-cuts allows combining distinct and imprecise data, and implementing a constraint satisfaction problem with the use of constraint programming. Moreover using α-cuts, optimisti...

Because of electricity subsidies, electricity price in Iran is much lower than its real value, and the growth of electricity demand is much more than its rational rate, which in turn implies ever increasing investment in the electricity section by the Government. Therefore, the recent Government policies are based on elimination of electricity subsidies, followed by commissioning complete elect...

This paper establishes an approach to forecast air cargo demand related to terminal capacity expansion. To balance capacity and demand, it is required to forecast the future demand based on optimistic and pessimistic projections to decide when and how much, the airport should expand the capacity. System dynamics simulation model can provide reliable forecast and generate scenarios to test alter...

In a typical supervised data analysis task, one needs to perform the following two tasks: (a) select the best combination of learning methods (e.g., for variable selection and classifier) and tune their hyper-parameters (e.g., K in K-NN), also called model selection, and (b) provide an estimate of the performance of the final, reported model. Combining the two tasks is not trivial because when ...

      Many large oil and gas fields in the most productive world regions happen to be fractured. The exploration and development of these reservoirs is a true challenge for many operators. These difficulties are due to uncertainties in geological fracture properties such as aperture, length, connectivity and intensity distribution. To successfully address these challenges, it is paramount to im...

hformatdon from the Social Security Adminbtration’s Survey of Neu2y Entitled Beneficiaries was analyzed for economic status dije”erenee8 between blacks and whites. Black new beneficiaries were more likely than whites to become entitled to papable than to postponed benefits and particular@ to full rather than to reduced benefits. At whatever age they became entitled and whatever their payment st...

Abstract The current global freshwater crisis threatens the present and future supply of water as a resource for humans. scarcity drinking dependence food industry on water-intensive chains require urgent development strategies to analyze guarantee sustainability countries. This study proposes fuzzy-data envelopment analysis composite index that measures, from benchmarking approach, by simultan...

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination. The right to health is...

Vehicular traffic simulations are useful in applications such as emergency planning and traffic management, for rapid response and resilience. Here, a parallel traffic simulation approach is presented that reduces the time for simulating emergency vehicular traffic scenarios. We use a reverse computation-based optimistic execution approach to parallel execution of microscopic, vehicular-level m...