Neo-Liberalism, Democracy and the State: Temporal and Spatial Constraints to Globalisation

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Johnston ◽  
Amy Glasmeier
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakim Mitiche ◽  
Dalila Boughaci ◽  
Maria Gini

Abstract We propose a method for task allocation to multiple physical agents that works when tasks have temporal and spatial constraints and agents have different capacities. Assuming that the problem is over-constrained, we need to find allocations that maximize the number of tasks that can be done without violating any of the constraints. The contribution of this work is the study of a new multi-robot task allocation problem and the design and the experimental evaluation of our approach, an iterated local search that is suitable for time critical applications. We created test instances on which we experimentally show that our approach outperforms a state-of-the-art approach to a related problem. Our approach improves the baseline’s score on average by 2.35% and up to 10.53%, while responding in times shorter than the baseline’s, on average, 1.6 s and up to 5.5 s shorter. Furthermore, our approach is robust to run replication and is not very sensitive to parameters tuning.


2019 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Shane Kelly ◽  
Weiwei Zhou ◽  
Sonia Bansal ◽  
Matthew S. Peterson ◽  
Wilsaan M. Joiner

Author(s):  
RUOMING JIN ◽  
SCOTT MCCALLEN ◽  
CHUN-CHI LIU ◽  
YANG XIANG ◽  
EIVIND ALMAAS ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 233 (12) ◽  
pp. 3379-3392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Corveleyn ◽  
Joan Lopez-Moliner ◽  
Yann Coello

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2657-2670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitri Kalenitchenko ◽  
Sonja K Fagervold ◽  
Audrey M Pruski ◽  
Gilles Vétion ◽  
Mustafa Yücel ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Yadira Fabiola LÓPEZ-ÁLVAREZ ◽  
Ricardo JARA-RUÍZ ◽  
Sergio Humberto DELGADO-GUERRERO ◽  
Martín Eduardo RODRÍGUEZ-FRANCO

Non-contact techniques for the analysis of deformations on surfaces has had great boom and acceptance in various sectors of science. When a beam of light with characteristics of temporal and spatial coherence radiates about optically rough surface, it presents a random distribution of intensity, giving rise to the phenomenon called speckle; said phenomenon is a representation of bright and dark dots formed by the random distribution of said coherent light, this distribution of overlapping speckle patterns generate interference fringes, its fringes are presented when in second pattern fringes has phase difference between them, which, give information about the state of deformation suffered by the material that is analyzed. This work reports the procedure that is followed for the analysis of deformations in materials using interferometric techniques. Different configurations of interference fringes are presented, and the procedure for their demodulation is described.


1980 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 894-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene L. Peck

The knowledge of the temporal and spatial variability of precipitation is important to many aspects of our society. A review of the research that has been accomplished on precipitation variability is presented. This is coupled with a discussion of the state of the art in measurement and estimation of precipitation to evaluate the present ability to properly design precipitation networks.


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