We discuss four discrete problems, one problem for each occurrence of the word 'match' in the title of this paper. The solutions of all four problems are based on underlying matching problems.

the usage of turbochargers in diesel engines has led to the downsizing of the motors as well as usage of the waste gates in turbochargers. any dimensional reduction in turbochargers and appurtenant leads to an enhancement on the performance of internal combustion engines and in environmental problems in terms of aerodynamic, thermodynamic and mechanical specifications for both engines and turbo...

the cúk converter, which has voltage buck and boost ability, offers high flexibility as an interface device for solar panels. in addition, current ripple can be more reduced because of two input and output inductors at both sides. this paper presents a new application of current-variable inductors in a cúk converter that reduces the size and capacity of storage elements. because of two inductor...

Recently there has been much interest in blending successful development methods such as agile development and product line engineering into an even more successful hybrid. I will consider one technique for accomplishing this blending. I will briefly present an example that will be discussed in more detail at the Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) in September. In this issue of Strategic S...

We use the photopigment template of Baylor et al. (1987) to define the set of Rayleigh matches that would be satisfied by a photopigment having a given wavelength of peak sensitivity (lambda(max)) and a given optical density (OD). For an observer with two photopigments in the region of the Rayleigh primaries, the observer's unique match is defined by the intersection of the sets of matches that...

This paper discusses a cryptographic protocol to evaluate an and-gate such that a party can keep his input bit secret from the other party. Such a protocol is of interest, because it can be generalized to any logical circuit for any number of participants. A formal statement of this generalization reads as follows: n participants want to compute together a function f(x1; x2; :::; xn) with xi be...

Booking.com is a virtual two-sided marketplace where guests and accommodation providers are the two distinct stakeholders. They meet to satisfy their respective and different goals. Guests want to be able to choose accommodations from a huge and diverse inventory, fast and reliably within their requirements and constraints. Accommodation providers desire to reach a reliable and large market tha...

A trend that has been observed over the recent years is that many companies, especially so‰ware companies, are outsourcing work to previously unknown parties [11]. Instead of outsourcing tasks to known, or previously used, firms, they obtain workers through online platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk [2]. Œis type of outsourcing is sometimes referred to as crowdsourcing. On the market tod...

On August 18 and 19, 1980, at Stanford University during the AAAI conference, the first of a projected pair of annual chess competitions pitting the world’s best computer programs against rated human players of approximately the same strength was held. These matches are part of the Fredkin prize competition, wherein a sum of $100,000, established by the Fredkin Foundation of Cambridge, Mass , i...

Best match graphs (BMGs) are vertex-colored digraphs that naturally arise in mathematical phylogenetics to formalize the notion of evolutionary closest genes w.r.t. an a priori unknown phylogenetic tree. BMGs explained by unique least resolved trees. We prove property rooted, leaf-colored tree be for some BMG is preserved contraction inner edges. For special case two-colored BMGs, this leads ch...