Given a directed acyclic graph with timing constraints, the budget management problem is to assign to each vertex an incremental delay such that the total sum of these delays is maximized without violating given constraints. We propose the notion of slack sensitivity and budget gradient to demonstrate characteristics of budget management. We develop an optimal polynomial-time algorithm for the ...

The Yellow River Basin is an important energy base of China, and its green development crucial to Chinese economic transformation. In this paper, we calculate the total factor productivity (GTFP) measure level by using Slack Based Model- Global Malmquist-Luenberger (SBM-GML) index model. On basis, use a Generalized Method Moments (GMM) model further analyze impact resource endowment industrial ...

Inside a case-based system, a case c is represented by a set of information entities ei E: c = {e1, e2, ..., en}. It is compared with a query q that is as well just a set of information entities. A composite similarity function for q, c ⊆ E determines a numeric value for the degree of similarity SIM(q, c). SIM is computed by means of a local similarity function sim : E × E → R. A very simple ex...

This paper describes a generic framework for explaining the prediction of a probabilistic classifier using preceding cases. Within the framework, we derive similarity metrics that relate the similarity between two cases to a probability model and propose a novel case-based approach to justifying a classification using the local accuracy of the most similar cases as a confidence measure. As basi...

Solving scheduling problems with Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP’s) techniques implies a wide space search with a large number of variables, each one of them with a wide interpretation domain. This paper discusses the application of CSP heuristic techniques (based on the concept of slack of activities) for variable and value ordering on a special type of job-shop scheduling problems in wh...

Air Traffic Control Planning is a complex area of research in which there is a great need for new and efficient coordination techniques. The tight connection between several parties with different interests makes it a typical and challenging area for the application of multiagent techniques. We study the relation between two important underlying principles in airport traffic planning, namely ut...

• Efficiency of operational processes with undesirable outputs containing series and parallel processes. Developing a network Slacks-Based DEA model to include components. A Slack-Based data envelopment analysis for measuring efficiency banks. An assessment Chinese commercial banks considering both This paper proposes new slacks-based measure (SBM-NDEA) evaluate the performance production that ...

The sodium-activated potassium KNa channels Slack and Slick are encoded by KCNT1 and KCNT2, respectively. These channels are found in neurons throughout the brain, and are responsible for a delayed outward current termed I KNa. These currents integrate into shaping neuronal excitability, as well as adaptation in response to maintained stimulation. Abnormal Slack channel activity may play a role...

BACKGROUND There is growing awareness of the role of information technology in evidence-based practice. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of organizational context and nurse characteristics in explaining variation in nurses' use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile Tablet PCs for accessing evidence-based information. The Promoting Action on Research Implementatio...

Abstract With the rapid development of Internet technology, field hotel management has begun to carry out informatisation construction, through which level and operational efficiency hotels can be improved. The traditional work with a complex structure cumbersome process is facing huge challenges. Therefore, this paper aims design, develop implement small medium-sized system based on customer r...