The paper focuses on a new class of combinatorial problems which consists in restructuring of solutions (as sets/structures) in combinatorial optimization. Two main features of the restructuring process are examined: (i) a cost of the restructuring, (ii) a closeness to a goal solution. Three types of the restructuring problems are under study: (a) one-stage structuring, (b) multi-stage structur...

OBJECTIVES Most research on the negative impact of restructuring on employees' health considers restructuring involving personnel reduction. The aim of this study was to explore the assumption that the type of restructuring, business expansion versus restructuring not involving expansion (only reductions and/or change of ownership), influences its psychological responses: appraisal of the chang...

Loop transformation and array restructuring are important compiler optimizations that improve memory locality in complementary ways. Although previous researchers have proposed integrating the two techniques, there exists no analytical framework for determining how best to combine them for a given program. In this paper, we propose a cost model for choosing between all combinations of loop and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Increasingly, academic hospitals have adopted hospitalist-based systems of inpatient pediatric care. Some studies comparing hospitalists with other attending physicians have suggested trainees are more satisfied with education from hospitalists. However, there are published concerns that the increased presence of hospitalists may reduce residents' autonomy. The objectiv...

In this paper, a 2 X 2 factorial design was used to assess the main and interaction effects of GSS and facilitation on knowledge restructuring under experimental conditions. To measure knowledge restructuring, the concept mapping technique and similarity coefficient were used to evaluate the level of restructuring of individual structural knowledge (complexity and integration) and the commonali...

This paper deals with a special hold-up problem in privatization. Since the enterprise, which is to be privatized, has to be restructured in a situation of uncertainty and the restructuring investments are sunk when the final decision on the sale price is taken in renegotiations, there is an imminent danger that restructuring is not done on an efficient scale, and there is underinvestment. We c...

objectives: one of the education ministry’s concerns in high schools is the problem of academic achievement. the researches have mentioned that student’s false attribution and absence of scholastic counseling service are the most important factors affecting student’s low performance and achievements. the main goal of this research was to study the rate of cognitive reconstructive effect on attr...

1 This work was partially supported by NSF grant #CCR-9803876 Abstract In this paper, we describe restructuring of C code into new C++ classes. Such restructuring is done to facilitate both software reuse and software evolution. The restructuring is accomplished by restructuring tools and scenarios. We discuss the transformation tool-set and the design of the individual tools. The approach is d...

1 This work was partially supported by NSF grant #CCR-9803876 Abstract In this paper, we describe restructuring of C code into new C++ classes. Such restructuring is done to facilitate both software reuse and software evolution. The restructuring is accomplished by restructuring tools and scenarios. We discuss the transformation tool-set and the design of the individual tools. The approach is d...