1. The following four books are all reviewed together by William Gasarch. Fair Division: From Cake Cutting to Dispute Resolution) , by Brams and Taylor, Cake Cutting: Be Fair if You Can by Robertson and Webb, The Win-Win Solution by Brams and Taylor, and Fair Allocation (Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Vol 33) Edited by H. Peyton Young. These books all deal with the problem of f...

We develop a Logic in which the basic objects of concern are games, or equivalently, monotone predicate transforms. We give completeness and decision results and extend to certain kinds of many-person games. Applications to a cake cutting algorithm and to a protocol for exchanging secrets, are given.

The no"t polygon is a powerful and e!ective tool for handling the geometry required for a range of solution approaches to two-dimensional irregular cutting-stock problems. However, unless all the pieces are convex, it is widely perceived as being di$cult to implement, and its use has therefore been somewhat limited. The primary purpose of this paper is to correct this misconception by introduci...

In this work we consider a one-dimentional cutting stock problem in which the non-used material in the cutting patterns may be used in the future, if large enough. This feature introduces difficulties in comparing solutions of the cutting problem, for example, up to what extent a minimum leftover solution is the most interesting one when the leftover may be used? Some desirable characteristics ...

— Chinese enterprises have become extensively linked with the global economy, yet in a shallow manner. They remain stuck in commodity manufacturing, undifferentiated activities for which innovation is absent. Competition then revolves around cutthroat cost cutting. This outcome stems from three factors. First, it reflects the new challenges to development posed by globally networked production....

Experimental results from a statistical analysis algorithm for objectively comparing toolmarks via data files obtained using optical profilometry data are described. The algorithm employed has successfully been used to compare striated marks produced by screwdrivers. In this study, quasi-striated marks produced by the cutting surfaces of slip-joint pliers were examined. Marks were made by cutti...

The present status of lattice calculations of fD, fB and some mass splittings are discussed. When one includes the uncertainties due to discretization errors, the results do not yet have a suucient precision to be relevant to phenomenological applications. There are, however, good prospects of cutting down the uncertainties by a factor of 2 or more soon.

This paper deals with the classical two-dimensional cutting stock problem, which consists of generating cutting patterns to produce bi rectangular items of sizes (li,wi), i=1,..,m, from rectangular objects of sizes (L,W), so that an objective is optimized, for example, the cost or trim loss. However, to cut the patterns they should be sequenced in such a way as to optimize another objective, fo...