A new hybrid algorithm is proposed in this paper. An independent task scheduling algorithm is designed based on the hybrid algorithm. The hybrid algorithm adopt list scheduling method to code harmony solution and convert harmony vector to priority-based independent task scheduling model, and perform variable neighborhood search on harmony solutions to improve Harmony Search efficiency and solut...

The mission of ORTEC, and specifically of HARMONY, is to provide planners and managers access to the benefits of mathematics, and operations research in particular. The basic philosophy of HARMONY is to integrate workforce management with administrative and (other) logistic processes of an organisation and to enrich decision-making within workforce management by OR/MS techniques. The integral a...

Are Asians and Asian Americans more or less likely to seek social support for dealing with stress than European Americans? On the one hand, the collectivist orientation of Asian countries might favor the sharing of stressful problems; on the other hand, efforts to maintain group harmony might discourage such efforts. In 2 studies, Koreans (Study 1) and Asians and Asian Americans in the United S...

Tonal Harmony is widely considered to be the most technical and complex part of music theory, and harmonic skills can be hard to acquire. Experience of the precise and flexible manipulation of harmony in real time generally requires hard-won instrumental skill. Even with instrumental skills, it can be hard to gain clear insight into harmonic abstractions. The above state of affairs gives rise t...

Vowel harmony is a class of phonotactic restrictions in which vowels in a language are divided into two or more subclasses, and words must contain only vowels from only one such subclass regardless of intervening consonants. Languages worldwide (Turkish, Finnish, Mongolian, Warlpiri, but not English) exhibit vowel harmony. The opacity of such potentially long distance alternations poses a chall...

Mutual policing is an important mechanism that maintains social harmony in group-living organisms by suppressing the selfish behavior of individuals. In social insects, workers police one another (worker-policing) by preventing individual workers from laying eggs that would otherwise develop into males. Within the framework of Hamilton's rule there are two explanations for worker-policing behav...

This paper describes AutoChorusCreator(ACC), a system capable of producing, in real-time, a variety of fourpart harmonies from lead sheet music. Current algorithms for generating four-part harmony have established a high standard in producing results following rules of harmony theories. However, it is still a challenging task to increase variation in the output. Detailed constraints for describ...

Variability in penetration, development, and reproduction of two resistance-breaking field pathotypes (pt.) of Meloidogyne arenaria, M. incognita, and a population of mixed Meloidogyne spp. virulent to grape hosts were compared on two resistant Vitis rootstocks 'Freedom' and 'Harmony' in separate tests. 'Cabernet Sauvignon' was included as a susceptible host to all four nematode populations. Se...