Many incomplete approaches for MAX-SAT have been proposed in the last years. The objective of this investigation is not so much horse-racing (beating the competition on selected benchmarks) but understanding the qualitative differences between the various methods. In particular, we focus on reactive search schemes where taskdependent and local properties in the configuration space are used for ...

In this paper we study turn prohibition based multicast wormhole message routing in computer networks with irregular interconnection graphs. Routing is accomplished in two phases. When a topology change is detected the first phase of routing is executed. Here the network graph is analyzed and a set of turns to be prohibited to break all cycles in the channel dependency graph is created. The tur...

A recent decision by the High Court of Australia (Wong v Commonwealth; Selim v Professional Services Review Committee (2009) 236 CLR 573) (the PSR case) has not only clarified the scope of the Australian constitutional prohibition on "any form of civil conscription" in relation to federal legislation concerning medical or dental services (s 51xxiiiA), but has highlighted its importance as a gre...

Predatory pricing law attempts to keep prices low by harshly sanctioning prices that are anticompetitively low. The paradox of predatory pricing law is that even an analytically perfect specification of the line between predatory and innocent price cuts would result in deviations from optimal pricing because the very recognition of a predatory pricing offense will induce some firms to forgo inn...

the proscription of illustration and painting in islam is a topic often discussed by researchers and art-ists. most orientalists have suggested that islam generally opposed art, especially painting and illustra-tion, thus resulting in a number of limitations. a survey of different prophetic sayings on this subject (hadith singular, hadis plural), verses of the qur'an, and artworks in the era of...