The purpose of this paper is to contribute the theory profinite semigroups by considering special class consisting those all whose finitely generated closed subsemigroups are countable, which said be locally countable. We also call countable a pseudovariety V (of finite semigroups) for pro-V investigate operations preserving local countability pseudovarieties and show that, in contrast with fin...

An employee transporting problem is described and a set partitioning model is developed. An investigation of the model leads to a knapsack problem as a surrogate problem. Finding a partition corresponding to the knapsack problem provides a solution to the problem. An exact algorithm is proposed to obtain a partition (subset-vehicle combination) corresponding to the knapsack solution. It require...