A common function of anonymity systems is the embedding of subjects that are associated to some attributes in a set of subjects, the anonymity set. Every subject within the anonymity set appears to be possibly associated to attributes of every other subject within it. The anonymity set covers the associations between the subjects and their attributes. The limit of anonymity protection basically...

Global trends in pollinator-dependent crops have raised awareness of the need to support managed and wild bee populations to ensure sustainable crop production. Provision of sufficient forage resources is a key element for promoting bee populations within human impacted landscapes, particularly those in agricultural lands where demand for pollination service is high and land use and management ...

Stratified case-based reasoning (SCBR) is a technique in which case abstractions are used to assist case retrieval, matching, and adaptation. Previous work has shown that SCBR can significantly decrease the computational expense required for retrieval, matching, and adaptation under a variety of different problem conditions. This paper extends this work to two new domains: a problem in combinat...

A large deployment of energy storage solutions will be required by the stochastic and non-controllable nature most renewable sources when planning for higher penetration electricity into mix. Various have been suggested dealing with medium- long-term storage. Hydrogen ammonia are two frequently discussed as they both carbon-free fuels. In this paper, authors analyse cost efficiency hydrogen amm...

One of the most important decision making problems in many production systems is identification and determination of products and their quantities according to available resources. This problem is called product-mix. However, in the real-world situations, for existing constrained resources, many companies try to provide some products from external resources to achieve more profits. In this pape...

a comprehensive and integrated study of any supply chain (sc) environment is a vital requirement that can create various advantages for the sc owners. this consideration causes productive managing of the sc through its whole wide components from upstream suppliers to downstream retailers and customers.  on this issue, despite many valuable studies reported in the current literature, considerabl...

This paper describes a methodology for the case mix problem at the strategic level in the health care sector. Aiming to maximize hospital profits under the given resource capacity, a mathematical model is developed to produce an optimal case mix pattern and a corresponding resource allocation scheme. Two exact methods, integer linear programming and branch-and-price, are deployed to solve the c...

Generation expansion planning problems should take into account not only satisfaction of future demand but also environmental constraints, such as government imposed limits on pollution produced by coal based power plants. For a vertically integrated system of power plants, we model those features as a two-stage stochastic programming problem with recourse that can be solved by decomposition me...

Physician supply Canada’s doctors also called for a comprehensive national health care resources strategy to better meet emerging needs. “The goal is to find the right number, mix and distribution of physicians,” said Dr. Jesse Pasternak, chair of the Canadian Association of Internes and Residents’ health human resources committee. The CMA has been struggling for years with how best to assure t...

This paper proposes a production planning approach for job shop type manufacturing company in electronics sector that operates with make-to-order (MTO) convention and has high-mix range. A novel Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model is proposed finds workload-dependent horizon by making order acceptance decisions. Partial of orders delayed internal target deliveries contribute to the no...