We consider a weighting scheme that yields a best-case scenario for measured human development such as the official equally-weighted Human Development Index (HDI) using an approach that relies on consistent tests for stochastic dominance efficiency (SDE). We compare the official equally-weighted...

We consider a weighting scheme that yields the best-case scenario measurement of the Human Development Index (HDI) using an approach that relies on consistent tests for stochastic dominance efficiency (SDE). We compare a given hybrid composite index such as the official equally-weighted HDI to...

This report describes the design, implementation and test of a software able to monitor the load of a cluster IBM Power 6, acting on its nodes switching them on and off on the basis of their load (jobs), scheduled by LSF, taking into account a linear, integer variables optimization model which...

In this paper, we initiate the study of the protein folding problem from an integer linear programming perspective. The particular variant of protein folding that we examine is known as the hydrophobic-hydrophilic (HP) model of protein folding on the integer lattice. This problem is known to be...

Determining the optimal size for a private warehouse is a planning problem which can affect the overall operations of a firm. Some Authors presented a linear programming formulation which determines the optimal size warehouse to construct when demand is highly seasonal and public warehouse space...

Given a set of elements, each having a profit and cost associated with it, and a budget, the 0-1 knapsack problem finds a subset of the elements with maximum possible combined profit subject to the combined cost not exceeding the budget. In this paper we study a stochastic version of the problem...

The thesis provides an algorithmic approach to the scheduling problem for call centre agents. It shows that this problem is NP-complete and even inapproximable. A broad statistical analysis of call data from a call centre is contained, too.