We consider the problem of scheduling a maximum profit selection of jobs on m identical machines. Jobs arrive online one by one and each job is specified by its start and end time. The goal is to determine a non-preemptive schedule which maximizes the profit of the scheduled jobs, where the profit of a job is equal to its length. Upon arrival of a new job, an online algorithm must decide whethe...

OBJECTIVE To determine the numbers of actual and expected psychiatric admissions for the residents of the district health authorities of England and to develop a model to indicate which social, health status, and service provision factors best explain the variation of the actual from the expected psychiatric admissions; to use this model to predict psychiatric admission for district health auth...

We should test people the same way we test software. During the last decades, the field of software testing has matured into a solid sector of software engineering with a wide variety of available techniques, empirically supported usefulness and applicability claims, a sophisticated ontology of terms and approaches, as well as an arsenal of tools. The main contribution of this paper is a propos...