1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466268603316

Titolo

Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems [[electronic resource] ] : 6th International Conference, CPAIOR 2009 Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 27-31, 2009 Proceedings / / edited by Willem-Jan van Hoeve, John N. Hooker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-642-01929-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 332 p.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 5547

Disciplina

518

Soggetti

Numerical analysis

Computer science—Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence

Operations research

Numerical Analysis

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

Artificial Intelligence

Operations Research and Decision Theory

Discrete Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Invited Talks -- Machine Learning Framework for Classification in Medicine and Biology -- G12 - Towards the Separation of Problem Modelling and Problem Solving -- Regular Papers -- Six Ways of Integrating Symmetries within Non-overlapping Constraints -- Throughput Constraint for Synchronous Data Flow Graphs -- A Shortest Path-Based Approach to the Multileaf Collimator Sequencing Problem -- Backdoors to Combinatorial Optimization: Feasibility and Optimality -- Solution Enumeration for Projected Boolean Search Problems -- k-Clustering Minimum Biclique Completion via a Hybrid CP and SDP



Approach -- Optimal Interdiction of Unreactive Markovian Evaders -- Using Model Counting to Find Optimal Distinguishing Tests -- Reformulating Global Grammar Constraints -- IBM ILOG CP Optimizer for Detailed Scheduling Illustrated on Three Problems -- Open Constraints in a Boundable World -- Sequencing and Counting with the multicost-regular Constraint -- Bandwidth-Limited Optimal Deployment of Eventually-Serializable Data Services -- Tightening the Linear Relaxation of a Mixed Integer Nonlinear Program Using Constraint Programming -- The Polytope of Context-Free Grammar Constraints -- Determining the Number of Games Needed to Guarantee an NHL Playoff Spot -- Scalable Load Balancing in Nurse to Patient Assignment Problems -- Learning How to Propagate Using Random Probing -- DFS* and the Traveling Tournament Problem -- Max Energy Filtering Algorithm for Discrete Cumulative Resources -- Extended Abstracts -- Hybrid Branching -- Constraint Programming and Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Rescheduling Trains under Disrupted Operations -- Constraint Models for Sequential Planning -- A Fast Algorithm to Solve the Frequency Assignment Problem -- A Hybrid LS/CP Approach to Solve the Weekly Log-Truck Scheduling Problem -- Modelling Search Strategies in Rules2CP -- CP-INSIDE: Embedding Constraint-Based Decision Engines in Business Applications -- An Integrated Genetic Algorithm and Integer Programming Approach to the Network Design Problem with Relays -- A Benders’Approach to a Transportation Network Design Problem -- Progress on the Progressive Party Problem.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2009, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in May 2009. The 20 revised full papers and 10 extended abstracts presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers describe current research in the fields of constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research and present new techniques or new applications in combinatorial optimization, thus exploring ways of solving large-scale, practical optimization problems through integration and hybridization of the fields' different techniques.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974439403321

Autore

Lopez Acevedo Gladys

Titolo

Impact evaluation of small and medium enterprise programs in Latin America and the Caribbean / / editors, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Hong W. Tan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2011

ISBN

1-283-10014-2

9786613100146

0-8213-8776-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 127 pages : color illustrations ; ; 28 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

TanHong

Disciplina

338.6/42098

Soggetti

Small business - Latin America

Small business - Caribbean Area

Business enterprises - Latin America

Business enterprises - Caribbean Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Motivation,methodology and main findings -- A review of recent SME program impact evaluation studies -- Evaluating SME support programs in Chile using panel firm data -- Evaluating small and medium enterprise support programs in Colombia -- Mexico : impact evaluation of sme programs using panel firm data -- Evaluating small and medium enterprise support programs in Peru.

Sommario/riassunto

Small and medium enterprise (SME) support programs are a common feature of industrial policy in developing countries, but one whose effectiveness is not well known. Governments are motivated to support SMEs both because they make up the majority of industrial enterprises and contribute substantially to GDP, employment and earnings, and because SMEs are thought to be weaker than their larger counterparts. Few governments, however, have evaluated their SME programs rigorously so there is little empirical basis for rational allocation of resources to the well performing programs. The paucity of e