The category of von Neumann correspondences from B to C (or von Neumann B–C–modules) is dual to the category of von Neumann correspondences from C to B via a functor that generalizes naturally the functor that sends a von Neumann algebra to its commutant and back. We show that under this duality, called commutant, Rieffel’s Eilenberg-Watts theorem (on functors between the categories of represen...

The High School Timetabling Problem consists in assigning timeslots and resources to events, satisfying constraints which heavily depend on the specific institution. This work deals with the problem of the ongoing III International Timetabling Competition (ITC), which includes a diverse set of instances from many educational institutions around the world. We proposed an approach based on Simula...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

this paper describes a methodology in designing high-performance concrete for simply supported beams, using a hybrid optimization strategy based on a variable neighborhood search threshold acceptance algorithm. three strategies have been applied to discrete optimization of reinforced concrete beams: variable neighborhood descent (vnd), reduced neighborhood search (rns) and basic variable neighb...

background: this study was proposed to monitor the situation of asymptomatic malaria among the native population and afghani and pakistani immigrants in kahnooj and ghale-ganj districts from kerman province, southeastern iran. methods: a number of 180 and 120 individuals from kahnooj and ghale-ganj respectively were registered and considered based on a cross-sectional surveillance method. from ...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

This paper investigates the structure of qualitative capacities, which are monotonic increasing set functions ranging on a finite totally ordered scale equipped with an orderreversing map. More specifically, we study whether these qualitative set-functions can be viewed as classes of more particular set functions, namely possibility measures, paralleling the situation of quantitative capacities...

An uncapacitated facility location problem considers a set of n warehouses W and a set of m stores S. Each warehouse w has a fixed cost fw, and the transportation cost from warehouse w to store s is given by cws. The problem is to find a subset of warehouses and an assignment of warehouses to stores in order to minimize the fixed and transportation costs. Observe that once the warehouses are se...