Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming [[electronic resource] ] : 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014, Proceedings / / edited by Helmut Simonis

• Record Nr.: UNISA996203719903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 3-319-07046-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 482 p. 88 illus.)
• Collana: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 8451
• Disciplina: 518
• Soggetti: Numerical analysis; Computer science—Mathematics; Discrete mathematics; Algorithms; Artificial intelligence; Operations research; Management science; Numerical Analysis; Mathematical Applications in Computer Science; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence; Operations Research, Management Science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Call-Based Dynamic Programming for the Precedence Constrained Line Traveling Salesman -- Stable Roommates and Constraint Programming -- Detecting and Exploiting Permutation Structures in MIPs -- Solving the Quorumcast Routing Problem as a Mixed Integer Program -- A New MIP Model for Parallel-Batch Scheduling with Non-identical Job Sizes -- Mining (Soft-) Skypatterns Using Dynamic CSP -- Modelling with Option Types in MiniZinc -- Interactive Design of Sustainable Cities with a Distributed Local Search Solver -- Sliced Table Constraints: Combining ; Compression and Tabular Reduction -- The PrePack Optimization Problem -- An Integrated Constraint Programming Approach to Scheduling Sports Leagues with Divisional and Round-Robin Tournaments -- Local Search for a Cargo Assembly Planning Problem -- A Logic Based Benders’ Approach to the Concrete Delivery Problem -- Evaluating CP Techniques to Plan Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Distributed Stream Processing -- Disregarding Duration Uncertainty in Partial Order Schedules? Yes, We Can -- An Exact Branch and Bound Algorithm with Symmetry Breaking for the Maximum Balanced Induced Biclique Problem -- Domain k-Wise Consistency Made as Simple as Generalized Arc Consistency -- Representative Encodings to Translate Finite CSPs into SAT -- SAT and Hybrid Models of the Car Sequencing Problem -- Continuously Degrading Resource and Interval Dependent Activity Durations in Nuclear Medicine Patient Scheduling -- Cost Impact Guided LNS -- Proteus: A Hierarchical Portfolio of Solvers and Transformations -- Buffered Resource Constraint: Algorithms and Complexity -- Combining Discrete Ellipsoid-Based Search and Branch-and-Cut for Binary Quadratic Programming Problems -- Parallel Combinatorial Optimization with Decision Diagrams -- A Portfolio Approach to Enumerating Minimal Correction Subsets for Satisfiability Problems -- Parallel Depth-Bounded Discrepancy Search -- Self-splitting of Workload in Parallel Computation -- The Markov Transition Constraint -- New Lower Bounds on the Number of Vehicles for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows -- Constrained Clustering Using Column Generation -- A Constraint Programming-Based Column Generation Approach for Operating Room Planning and Scheduling -- Dynamic Controllability and Dispatchability Relationships.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on the Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) Techniques in Constraint Programming, CPAIOR 2014, held in Cork, Ireland, in May 2014. The 33 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers focus on constraint programming and global constraints; scheduling modelling; encodings and SAT logistics; MIP; CSP and complexity; parallelism and search; and data mining and machine learning.

Sustaining the peace after civil war [[electronic resource] /] / T. David Mason

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910698359503321
• Autore: Mason T. David (Thomas David), <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Carlisle Barracks, PA] : , : [Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College], , [2007]
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 108 pages : digital, PDF file
• Soggetti: Civil war; Civil war - Forecasting; Peace; Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Evaluation; Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Peace
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 10, 2008).; "December 2007."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-108).
• Nota di contenuto: Defining the risk set: which nations are susceptible to civil war? -- Win, lose, or draw: how civil wars end -- Sustaining the peace after civil war -- From peacekeeping to peace building -- Conclusions -- Post-script: the war in Iraq.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the end of World War II, there have been four times as many civil wars as interstate wars. For a small subset of nations civil war is a chronic condition: about half of the civil war nations have had at least two and as many as six conflicts. This book presents an analytical framework that has been used to identify a set of factors that make civil war more or less likely to recur in a nation where a civil war has recently terminated. The outcome of the previous civil war -- whether it ended in a government victory, a rebel victory or a negotiated settlement -- as well as the duration and deadliness of the conflict affect the durability of the peace after civil war. The introduction of peacekeeping forces, investment in economic development and reconstruction, and the establishment of democratic political institutions tailored to the configuration of ethnic and religious ; cleavages in the society also affect the durability of peace after civil war. The book closes by applying these propositions in an analysis of the civil war in Iraq: what can be done to bring the Iraq conflict to an earlier, less destructive, and more stable conclusion?