The objective of this note is to present and discuss the findings of piloting a task-based job matching tool developed by the World Bank and implemented in partnership with the Regional Labor Office of Pomerania, Poland. The aim of the pilot was to assess whether simple ML-based tools could...

Ocean energy technologies are in their developmental stages, like other renewable energy sources. To be useable in the energy market, most components of wave energy devices require further improvement. Additionally, wave resource characteristics must be evaluated and estimated correctly to...

Financial bubble prediction has been a significant area of interest in empirical finance, garnering substantial attention in the literature. This study aims to detect and forecast financial bubbles in the Vietnamese stock market from 2001 to 2021. The PSY procedure, which involves a right-tailed...

We present an approximation method for the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem based on relaxation and machine learning techniques. Our model combines a suitable relaxation of the objective function to a continuous solution space with a self-supervised learning method for neural networks, which...

Sustainability in supply chain management addresses various challenges, from waste minimization to resource efficiency maximization. Two-dimensional cutting problems are common problems in most supply chains where small rectangular items need to be cut from large rectangular stock sheets to meet...