Network location models comprise one of the main categories of location models. These models have various applications in regional and urban planning as well as in transportation, distribution, and energy management. In a network location problem, nodes represent demand points and candidate locations to locate the facilities. If the links network is unchangeably determined, the problem will be ...

The present study introduced a novel hierarchical hub set covering problem with capacity constraints. This study showed the significance of fixed charge costs for locating facilities, assigning hub links and designing a productivity network. The proposed model employs mixed integer programming to locate facilities and establish links between nodes according to the travel time between an origin-...

Abstract The recent narrative on museums as catalysts of innovation and growth considers their relations with other cultural creative industries (CCIs) to be very important. We argue that most establish CCI firms institutions are unlikely produce strong positive externalities make the latter more innovative. To prove this claim, we propose a conceptual framework qualifying project-based supply ...

Bisociative knowledge discovery is an approach that combines elements from two or more “incompatible” domains to generate creative solutions and insight. Inspired by Koestler’s notion of bisociation, in this paper we propose a computational framework for the discovery of new connections between domains to promote creative discovery and inspiration in design. Specifically, we propose using topic...

This research paper aims to assess the influence of Retail Service Quality and CSR as antecedents Retailer Personality Customer Reactions. Also, reviews were done for studies which implemented Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The relationships links identified from a rigorous literature review. A conceptual model has been developed proposed, with Policy retailer Reactions consequences Personal...

The analysis of big data, although potentially a very rewarding task, can present difficulties due to the complexity inherent to such datasets. We suggest that conceptual graphs provide a mechanism for representing knowledge about a domain that can also be used as a useful scaffold for big data analysis. Conceptual graphs may be used as a means to collaboratively build up a robust model forming...

That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, and set it free!. .. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. —Keller 1904, 22 Word learning, more than any other development achievement, stands at the very center of the crossroad of human cognition and language. Even before they can tie their own shoes, human infants spontaneously form concepts 1 to capture...

On March 20, 1996, a day known as Black Wednesday to the British beef industry, the British Secretary of State of Health announced that a possible link existed between BSE and the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human variant of mad cow. Seven years later, a somewhat comparable fate struck the Canadian beef industry. In May 2003, the discovery of the first native North American case of BS...

Odors are often difficult to identify, and can be perceived either via the nose or mouth ("flavor"; not usually perceived as a "smell"). These features provide a unique opportunity to contrast conceptual and perceptual accounts of synesthesia. We presented six olfactory-visual synesthetes with a range of odorants. They tried to identify each smell, evaluate its attributes and illustrate their e...

The work described in this paper focuses on how to reveal culturally-related data to city tourists to help them in navigating both the physical space through which they are moving (the cityscape) and a conceptual space around points of interest which links them through shared stories of time, place, people and theme (the datascape). The research goal is to discover to what extent navigational s...