Forty-something divorcee Mel is struggling with infertility. But when she has to look after her step-grandson, four year-old Billy, Mel's life begins to change in ways she never expected. A deeply empathic, humane debut, Gratitude asks how we live now and how we make meaning in lives that rarely work to plan.
InhaltsverzeichnisInvited Talks.Opt Art.Planning for Mixed Discrete Continuous Domains.Duality in Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction.Technical Papers.A Totally Unimodular Description of the Consistent Value Polytope for Binary Constraint Programming.Undirected Forest Constraints.Allocation, Scheduling and Voltage Scaling on Energy Aware MPSoCs.The Range Constraint: Algorithms and Implementation.On the Separability of Subproblems in Benders Decompositions.A Hybrid Column Generation and Constraint Programming Optimizer for the Tail Assignment Problem.The Power of Semidefinite Programming Relaxations for MAX-SAT.Expected-Case Analysis for Delayed Filtering.Plan B: Uncertainty/Time Trade-Offs for Linear and Integer Programming.Progressive Solutions: A Simple but Efficient Dominance Rule for Practical RCPSP.AND/OR Branch-and-Bound Search for Pure 0/1 Integer Linear Programming Problems.The Timetable Constrained Distance Minimization Problem.Conflict-Directed A* Search for Soft Constraints.Event-Driven Probabilistic Constraint Programming.Online Stochastic Reservation Systems.Traveling Tournament Scheduling: A Systematic Evaluation of Simulated Annealling.Open Constraints in a Closed World.Conditional Lexicographic Orders in Constraint Satisfaction Problems.An Efficient Hybrid Strategy for Temporal Planning.Improved Algorithm for the Soft Global Cardinality Constraint.