Train timetabling, platforming, and network maintenance scheduling are three highly interdependent problems that crucial in the planning of railway operations, each is normally addressed separately. In this paper, we simultaneously optimize these for a high-speed comprised multiple lines stations. We model on mesoscopic level formulate 0–1 binary integer programming minimizes total train weight...

1. To characterize approaches to fit assessment and identification. 2. To characterize fit maintenance triggers and policies, and factors that should be considered for such decisions.

Problem statement: A well designed user interface is comprehensible and controllable, helping users to complete their work successfully and efficiently and to feel competent and satisfied. To improve the usability of a software system, usability patterns can be applied. However, there are short comes shows that the software architecture of a system restricts certain usability patterns from bein...

Computerized information systems are used in all contemporary industries and have been applied to track maintenance information and history. To a lesser extent, such information systems have also been used to predict or simulate maintenance decisions and actions. This work details two models, a population data analysis, and a system infrastructure, to aid operations and maintenance managers wit...

One of the main aspects of knowledge management is the task of knowledge maintenance. Building and running knowledge intensive Case-Based Reasoning applications requires fundamental design decisions during the system design phase with regard to the knowledge maintenance within the system as well as accurate knowledge maintenance approaches within the running system. In this paper we will detail...

In International Criminal Court (ICC), the prosecutorial discretion in nature is a hybrid of the common-law adversarial model and the inquisitorial approach of civil-law systems. This paper studies the ICC prosecutorial discretion from the perspectives of common law and civil law and draws the conclusion that the ICC needs some more time to carefully design the prosecutorial discretion to reach...

Women's health specialists were rightfully alarmed by the April 2007 Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v. Carhart. In criminalizing the “intact dilation and extraction” abortion procedure and banning its use even to protect a woman's health, the U.S. Supreme Court has—with shocking ease— rejected science, overthrown legal precedent safeguarding women's health and seized authority over medical ...

After the watershed 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision Lawrence v.Texas, courts are faced with the daunting task of navigating the bounds of sexual privacy in light of Lawrence's sweeping language and unconventional structure. This Note focuses on the specific issue of state governments regulating sexual device distribution. Evaluating the substantive due process rights of sexual device retailers...