This paper presents two memetic algorithms to solve multi-objective min-max problems, such as the ones that arise in evidence-based robust optimization. Indeed, the solutions that minimize the design budgets are robust under epistemic uncertainty if they maximize the belief in the realization of the value of the design budgets. Thus robust solutions are found by minimizing with respect to the d...

Debbie Budlender: Debbie Budlender is a principal researcher for the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), Cape Town, South Africa. A founding member of the South African Women's Budget Initiative, she is the leading international adviser on gender responsive budget (GRB) initiatives, having worked in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas. She has also written extensively o...

Almost all public library funding in the United States iscontrolled by local, state, and/or federal budgets, policies,and laws. Influencing budgets, policies, and laws happensthrough lobbying and advocacy campaigns. When signifi-cant changes or cuts to library funding are proposed, howdo stakeholders respond and what is the potential out-come of advocacy efforts? As (fic...

Stretched health care budgets and the increasing availability of high-cost medicines, together with increasing patient expectations, means that manufacturers seeking reimbursement for their products need to demonstrate more than ever that their drugs can provide value-for-money. Due to this complex environment, formal agreements between payers and manufacturers have been developed with the aim ...