We are presenting in this volume selected, peer-reviewed, short papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS’14) which took place in Djerba, Tunisia, during October 8-11, 2014.

Available online 31 July 2008

The article provides general statistics of accidents that occurred due to improper compliance with labor protection requirements, presents significant risks harm health when performing hazardous activities in the construction industry and consequences their occurrence. Along this, unfavorable, but generally recognized real cases attitudes towards during or rehabilitation roads are discussed. Re...

We examine the impact of neighborhood socioeconomic conditions and "built environments" on obesity and overweight prevalence among U.S. children and adolescents using the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health. The odds of a child's being obese or overweight were 20-60 percent higher among children in neighborhoods with the most unfavorable social conditions such as unsafe surroundings; poor...

This paper studies the notion of ability and its relation with the notion of action in a multi-agent context. It introduces the distinction between two notions respectively called “theoretical ability” and “ability”. The main contribution of this paper is a model of these notions in the Situation Calculus.

Using Hart Smith’s, curvelet, and shearlet transforms, we investigate L functions with sufficiently smooth background and present here sufficient and necessary conditions, which include the special case with 1-dimensional singularity line. Specifically, we consider the situation where regularity on a line in a non-parallel direction is much lower than directional regularity along the line in a ...

Consider the graphs of n distinct polynomials of a real variable intersecting at some point. In the neighborhood of this point, the qualitative picture is described by some permutation of {1, . . . , n}. We describe the permutations that occur in such a situation. In this note, we shall examine the relative positions of the graphs of several functions in the neighborhood of a point where they i...

We present first ideas on how results about qualitative spatial reasoning can be exploited in reasoning about action and change. Current work concentrates on a line segment based calculus, the dipole calculus and necessary extensions for representing navigational concepts like turn right. We investigate how its conceptual neighborhood structure can be applied in the situation calculus for reaso...

People tend towards wishful thinking, in which they overestimate the probability of favorable outcomes and underestimate the probability of unfavorable outcomes. Many explanations for this phenomenon focus on its irrationality. We explore whether wishful thinking could actually help people make better decisions given that they have limited cognitive resources. We consider a situation in which m...

execution of every planned program in cities has different process. process involves inhabitant's preferences, capacity of area or neighborhood, scale of people participation. after these strategies plans will prepared and executors apply them. planning in city scale considering potentials of area and participation of people is very important stage to eliminate undesirable appearances of c...