Nielsen today is expected to announce plans to begin rolling out a controversial method it says will fix some antiquated parts of its local TV measurement system: a process that would effectively use ...

In our model, individuals are autopolyploid with either four (Y 4) or six (Y 6) sets of chromosomes (that is, 2n=4x=tetraploid; 2n=6x=hexaploid), but all populations must have the same ploidy level ...

Synthetic populations are computer-generated models that mimic real-world populations in terms of characteristics such as age, gender, and occupation; they are useful when conducting social ...

The traffic assignment problem (TAP) with elastic demands can be formulated as an optimization problem, the objective of which is the sum of a congestion function and a disutility function. We propose ...

This paper describes a simple calculation for the assignment and transportation problems which is "dual to" the well-known Hungarian Method. While the Hungarian is a dual method, this method is primal ...

One of the most pressing challenges that sales leaders grapple with is how to effectively distribute leads to their sales reps. Historically, the default approach has been to assign leads based on ...

The student body at Alki Elementary is becoming more like the neighborhood around the school — which is to say whiter. Last year, 71 percent of the West Seattle school’s newest children — those in ...

Synthetic populations are computer-generated groups of people that are designed to look like real populations. They are built using public census information about people's characteristics, such as ...