Smart routing for municipal solid waste collection: a heuristic approach

Published in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Jul 08, 2019

Louati Son Chabchoub

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is considered as one of the primary factors that contribute greatly to the rising of climate change and global warming affecting sustainable development in many different ways. It is indeed necessary to investigate an efficient computerized method for the optimization of MSW collection that minimizes the environmental and other factors according to a given waste collection scenario. In this paper, we propose a heuristic-based smart routing algorithm for MSW collectio...

Enhanced Axial-Ratio Bandwidth Single-Point-Fed CP Antenna Using Slot Structure Modification

Published in: 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting

Jul 07, 2019

Molecualr modelling studies on alpha-7 nicotinic receptor allosteric modulators yields novel filter-based virtual screening protocol

Published in: Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

Jul 02, 2019

Sarah Al Rawashdah Amar hamrouni

The ɑ7 receptor is a member in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) which has been implicated in several neurological disorders. Beside normal agonists and antagonists of α7 nAChRs, several studies revealed other types of molecules that are able to activate or deactivate ɑ7 receptors via allosteric binding; those are called positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) or negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), with the former having more pharmacological importance than the latter. Since both ty...

Examining the relationship between audit committee effectiveness and audit fees: An empirical investigation on companies listed in the UAE financial markets

Published in: Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis

Jun 04, 2019

This study seeks to understand the relationship between audit committee effectiveness and audit fees. Prior literature suggests two perspectives to explain this relationship; the first is demand based whereas a positive rela- tionship is expected, while the second is audit risk which propose a negative relationship between the two variables. In order to test the relationship be- tween the two variables, data were collected from 64 companies listed in Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and Dubai Fina...

Apply the quantum particle swarm optimization for the K-traveling repairman problem

Published in: Soft Computing

Jun 03, 2019

Jmal Syrine Haddar Boukthir Chabchoub Habib

This paper deals with an optimization problem encountered in the field of transport of goods and services, namely the K-traveling repairman problem (K-TRP). This problem is a generalization of the metric traveling repairman problem (TRP) which is also known as the deliveryman problem and the minimum latency problem. The K-TRP and the related problems can be considered as “customer-centric” routing problems because the objectif function consists in minimize the sum of the waiting times of custom...