The paper focuses on solving the ResourceConstrained Project Scheduling (RCPS) problem with a method based on intelligent agents. Parallelism for performing the tasks is allowed. Common and limited resources are available to all agents. The agents are non-cooperative and compete with each other for the use of common resources, thereby forming instances of RCPS problem. We analyze the global joi...

Since the mid-1990s, libraries and archives have been digitizing newspapers for preservation and access. The standards used for this work have evolved significantly during this time. Modern collections employ digitization techniques, metadata extraction and standards, and file formats that are very different compared to early collections. Increasingly, libraries and archives also include born-d...

An ocular Toxocara canis infection is reported for the first time in Vietnam. A 34-year-old man residing in a village of Son La Province, North Vietnam, visited the National Eye Hospital (NEH) in August 2011. He felt a bulge-sticking pain in his left eye and loss of vision occurred over 3 months before visiting the hospital. The eye examination in the hospital showed damage of the left eye, red...

The general flowshop scheduling problem is a production problem where a set of n jobs have to be processed with identical flow pattern on m machines. In permutation flowshops the sequence of jobs is the same on all machines. A significant research effort has been devoted for sequencing jobs in a flowshop minimizing the makespan. This paper describes the application of a Constructive Genetic Alg...

Participants will study with eight Yeats scholars from the United States, Ireland, Canada and Great Britain. In addition to O'Shea, author of two books on Yeats, they are Daniel Albright of Harvard University, author of "The Myth Against Myth: A Study of Yeats's Imagination in Old Age"; Brian Arkins of the National University of Ireland, Galway, author of a book on Greek and Roman themes in Yea...

A real wave packet based time-dependent method and a statistical quantum method have been used to study the He + NeH(+) (v, j) reaction with the reactant in various ro-vibrational states, on a recently calculated ab initio ground state potential energy surface. Both the wave packet and statistical quantum calculations were carried out within the centrifugal sudden approximation as well as using...

This paper proposes two constructive heuristics, i.e. HPF1 and HPF2, for the blocking flow shop problem in order to minimize the total flow time. They differ mainly in the criterion used to select the first job in the sequence since, as it is shown, its contribution to the total flow time is not negligible. Both procedures were combined with the insertion phase of NEH to improve the sequence. H...