In today's increasingly heterogeneous compute landscape, there is high demand for design tools that offer seemingly contradictory features: portable programming abstractions hide underlying architectural detail, and the capability to optimise exploit features. Our meta-programming approach, Artisan, decouples application functionality from optimisation concerns address complexity of mapping hig...

In this paper, we show a procedure for solving multilevel fractional programming problems in a large hierarchical decentralized organization using fuzzy goal programming approach. In the proposed method, the tolerance membership functions for the fuzzily described numerator and denominator part of the objective functions of all levels as well as the control vectors of the higher level decision ...

The overall objective of this research is to support state departments transportation with their decision-making processes and transitions performance management performance-based planning programming mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in 21st Century Act. Accomplishing requires a systematic multiobjective optimization methodology. This proposes such methodology, referred as an “element-...

Purpose: To investigate the levels of store-switching for main food shopping consequent on a change in operator for a major superstore. To account for differences amongst switchers and non-switchers and to confirm/reject previous research findings. Design/methodology/approach: A two-phase random household postal survey on main food shopping behaviour was conducted in a central Scottish city. Th...