the recent years have witnessed an increasing attention to the methods of multiple attribute decision making in solving the problems of the real world due to their shorter time of calculation and easy application. one of these methods is the ‘permutation method’ which has a strong logic in connection with ranking issues, but when the number of alternatives increases, solving problems through th...

This paper considers a no-wait multi product flowshop scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times. Lot streaming divide the lots of products into portions called sublots in order to reduce the lead times and work-in-process, and increase the machine utilization rates. The objective is to minimize the makespan. To clarify the system, mathematical model of the problem is presented. Sin...

Irregular pyramids are made of a stack of successively reduced graphs embedded in the plane. Each vertex of a reduced graph corresponds to a connected set of vertices in the level below. One connected set of vertices reduced into a single vertex at the above level is called the reduction window of this vertex. In the same way, a connected set of vertices in the base level graph reduced to a sin...

A generalized semi-Markou scheme models the structure of a discrete event system, such as a network of queues. By studying combinatorial and geometric representations of schemes we find conditions for second-order properties-convexity/concavity, sub/supermodularity-of their event epochs and event counting processes. A scheme generates a language of feasible strings of events. We show that monot...

The Multiscale method is a class of algorithmic techniques for solving efficiently and effectively large-scale computational and optimization problems. This method was originally invented for solving elliptic partial differential equations and up to now it represents the most effective class of numerical algorithms for them. During the last two decades, there were many successful attempts to ad...

Combinatorial key predistribution schemes can provide a practical solution to the problem of distributing symmetric keys to the nodes of a wireless sensor network. Such schemes often inherently suit networks in which the number of nodes belongs to some restricted set of values (such as powers of primes). In a recent paper, Bose, Dey and Mukerjee have suggested that this might pose a problem, si...

The glycine-binding site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) subunit GluN1 is a potential pharmacological target for neurodegenerative disorders. A novel combinatorial ensemble docking scheme using ligand and protein conformation ensembles and customized support vector machine (SVM)-based models to select the docked pose and to predict the docking score was generated for predicting the...

in this paper we provide explicit formulas for the number of elements/subgroups/cyclic subgroups of a given order and for the total number of subgroups/cyclic subgroups in a finite hamiltonian group. the coverings with three proper subgroups and the principal series of such a group are also counted. finally, we give a complete description of the lattice of characteristic subgroups of a finite h...

Local search is a powerful and well-established method for solving hard combinatorial problems. Yet, until recently, it has provided very little user support, leading to time-consuming and error-prone implementation tasks. We introduce a scheme that, from a high-level description of a constraint in existential second-order logic with counting, automatically synthesises incremental penalty calcu...