After the fall of Roman in uence in the British Isles at the beginning of the 5 Century A.D., two West Germanic tribes began pouring into Britain in increasing numbers. Originally recruited as mercenaries against the Picts in modernday Scotland, the Angles and Saxons stayed and eventually overwhelmed the Celts and other inhabitants of modern-day England and Wales who had invited them (Wikipedia...

Consumption is commonly used as a proxy for permanent income. We go a step further by establishing the link between the distribution of consumption and that of permanent income in terms of dominance orderings. We introduce two new dominance orderings, the Generalized Top Lorenz test and the related affluence ordering. If consumption is a concave function of permanent income, we get an indirect ...

This study investigates the usefulness of a scenario advisor tool which was designed to be used in the military domain where human or machine errors cause safety-critical problems. The tool provides traceability between scenario models and requirements and helps to generate new scenarios and scenario variations. Through two series of evaluation sessions, we found that the tool is useful to gene...

The emergence of lead generation companies has created a tremendous change in the world of data collection. This opportunity has enhanced the possibility of tracing and offering classified packages of user behavior in the virtual world. As such, this paper aims at discovering the possible connections between the lead generation and electronic health. The recent trends were followed to present t...

Seaport terminals recognise the need to change current practices in order to improve regional air quality while enhancing their terminals’ competitiveness. One area that terminals can do better at is to improve their yard crane operations and in turn reduce the trucks in-terminal delay. This study examines various container rehandling strategies by the yard cranes with the goal of improving the...

Reappraisals of the history and historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment abound these days. Yet however much is produced, authors continue to find new and interesting things to say. John Dwyer has certainly proved this in his excellent, fairly short study of the Scottish moralists. Dwyer, thankfully, has not taken the high road to philosophy but has investigated the output of the eighteenth...

This paper adopts the two-sector overlapping generation (OLG) model to capture the impact of population ageing on the regional economy and compares the effectiveness of government policy in an endogenous growth perspective. Comparing the computational results of a one-sector OLG model, where agent’s productivity is given exogenously, this paper confirms that endogenously determined investment i...

This paper discusses a case study of the board game of Scotland Yard from a computational perspective. Interestingly, Scotland Yard is a genuine “playgame” with imperfect information. For reasons not completely clear to me, games with imperfect information have escaped the interest of researchers in Algorithmic combinatorial gametheory. I show by means of a powerset argument, that Scotland Yard...

Transformation-based optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively usually apply all possible transformation rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is produced. In general, diierent sequences of transformation rules may end up deriving the same element. The optimizer must detect and discard these duplicate elements generated by multiple paths. In this paper we conside...