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Just how hard is the Raiders' schedule heading into the season? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ESPN names the best new conference games next season [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being aimed at high-speed SpaceWire-D, a method of schedule generation was put forward, implemented with greedy algorithm combined with SMT-Solver. The greedy algorithm was designed to generate a set of constraint for SMT-Solver and to make the frames and frame chips distribute more uniformly in the generated schedule. The SMT-Solver is an important tool and its function is to determine the satisfiability of input parameters. If it is satisfiable, the output module is the schedule wanted. In addition, new policies were proposed about setting the length of frame chips, the size of time-slots, and collision area division. The method was verified with experiments. The results show that the generation algorithm can acquire a schedule featured by approximate uniform distribution in hundreds of milliseconds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Large dynamical changes in thermalizing glassy systems are triggered by trajectories crossing record sized barriers, a behavior revealing the presence of a hierarchical structure in configuration space. The observation is here turned into a novel local search optimization algorithm dubbed record dynamics optimization, or RDO. RDO uses the Metropolis rule to accept or reject candidate solutions depending on the value of a parameter akin to the temperature and minimizes the cost function of the problem at hand through cycles where its ‘temperature’ is raised and subsequently decreased in order to expediently generate record high (and low) values of the cost function. Below, RDO is introduced and then tested by searching for the ground state of the Edwards–Anderson spin-glass model, in two and three spatial dimensions. A popular and highly efficient optimization algorithm, parallel tempering (PT), is applied to the same problem as a benchmark. RDO and PT turn out to produce solutions of similar quality for similar numerical effort, but RDO is simpler to program and additionally yields geometrical information on the system’s configuration space which is of interest in many applications. In particular, the effectiveness of RDO strongly indicates the presence of the above mentioned hierarchically organized configuration space, with metastable regions indexed by the cost (or energy) of the transition states connecting them. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The timetable problem is an essentially discrete problem. Although the discrete problem may have no feasible solution, there may exist a solution to the equivalent continuous problem. An example is given, for which the nondiscrete solution can be interpreted as a set of timetables, differing from week to week, which together satisfy the long-term requirements of the timetable problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A May NFL schedule release lets the league and networks gauge the most attractive matchups after the roster shuffling of free agency, trades and draft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How schools use time is an evergreen issue in education. No matter what time of year it is, time — or the lack of time — is always up for debate. But we have neglected one of the most crucial areas for using time more effectively: how teachers use their time. The editor proposes that teachers spend half of their work week on instruction and the other half on their own learning, and collaboration with colleagues. She also proposes that teachers work a full year, instead of an abbreviated academic year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

But the government doesn't want you to know about it [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Metal Bulletin senior correspondent Claire Hack will be working in the offices of sister title AMM in New York for a period of three months, from August 3 to October 30. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The schedule says a lot about Pope Francis' focus [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers news brief related to automobile industry. Topics include the consideration for the fifth-generation Camaro automobile as one of the most popular display at the 2012 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) auto show, the release of the National Muscle Car Association (NMCA) auto race 2013 schedule, and the participation of Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational at the 2012 SEMA show.