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Adaptive approach heuristics for the generalized assignment problem [PDF]

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The Generalized Assignment Problem consists in assigning a set of tasks to a set of agents with minimum cost. Each agent has a limited amount of a single resource and each task must be assigned to one and only one agent, requiring a certain amount of the
Helena Ramalhinho-Lourenço   +1 more
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Constraint-based local search for container freight rail scheduling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A traditional container rail service is based on regular timetables. This causes a risk that some customers may turn away if their preferred itinerary is not attainable and the take-up of some services in a fixed schedule may be low and therefore not ...
Indra-Payoong, Nakorn
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Assigning proctors to exams with scatter search [PDF]

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In this paper we present an algorithm to assign proctors to exams. This NP-hard problem is related to the generalized assignment problem with multiple objectives.
Helena Ramalhinho-Lourenço   +2 more
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‘Reinventing’ the Beach? Lessons from a Local Development Plan in the French Riviera

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Coastal squeeze is now so tangible both globally and locally that the focus of scientific debate has expanded from the erosion of beaches to the risk of their disappearance. In this context, it is crucial to explore local development plans that aim to preserve the long‐term existence of a beach.
Isabelle Bruno, Grégory Salle
wiley   +1 more source

Penerapan Metode Kombinasi Algoritma Genetika dan Tabu Search dalam Optimasi Alokasi Kapal Peti Kemas (Studi Kasus : PT. XYZ)

open access: yesJurnal Teknik ITS, 2017
Perkembangan perdagangan global menyebabkan penggunaan jasa transportasi menjadi bagian yang sangat penting dalam pendistribusian barang. Salah satunya yaitu jasa transportasi laut atau jasa pelayaran.
Novian Tiandini, Wiwik Anggraeni
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling constant weight codes using tabu search

open access: yes, 1997
In this paper a recently developed combinatorial optimisation technique known as tabu search is used to investigate lower bounds on the optimal sizes of some constant weight codes.
Baylis, D.J., Bland, J.A.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

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