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Tabu Search to Plan Schedules in a Multiskill Customer Contact Center
2006
International audience; We have studied a realistic case of scheduling problem in a customer contact center, dealing with multiskill agents. Our model combines the last two steps of the standard approach by determining shifts and by assigning them to agents at the same time (scheduling and rostering). Moreover, we have considered realistic vacations, according to legal constraints and preferences of agents. We have envisioned entire weeks of work, with variable meal times and meal durations, without overtime. In this paper, we define the problem and describe a Tabu search based solution.
How the country-of-origin impacts wine traders’ mental representation about wines: A study in a world wine trade fair
2020
Using data collected at a world wine trade fair, we study how the country-of-origin impacts wine traders’ mental representation about wines. In the analysis we use traditional exporters in Old (France) and New (Argentina) world wine countries in comparison to non-traditional exporters in Old (Switzerland) and New (Brazil) world wine countries. Three main findings are reported. First, the country-of-origin of wines was more important on guiding participants’ representations, than the category of countries the traders came from. Second, participants’ evocations were more precise and specific for traditional wine-exporting countries than for less traditional wine exporting countries. Finally, …
¿Una feria de cambios a la valenciana? Debate financiero y energía emprendedora en el siglo XVII
2020
In 1619 Philip IV sent to print a Real Pragmatic [Royal Pragmatic legislation] that would regulate changes between Valencia and Medina del Campo being introduced by Valencian merchant families to enable them to receive interest on their loans without being accused of usury. Only three years later, in 1622, the Republic of Genoa inaugurated the exchange fairs of Novi Ligure, with which the Genoese consolidated their international position in the international credit market. These apparently independent circumstances constitute an important episode for international financial knowledge and the transformation of the Mediterranean credit market during the seventeenth century. Studying financial…
On some difficulties of putting in dialogue animal rights with anthropological debates: a historical view in three episodes
2018
In this paper, I try to identify the reasons why the dialogue between sociocultural anthropology and animal rights theories and movements continues to be difficult and scarce. At first sight this weakness of communication is surprising, if one looks at the amount of anthropological studies on human/animal relationships, in most cases pointing to how animals are considered in many cultures as non- human subjects or persons. For understanding the roots of this state of affairs, I compare the ways anthropologists and animal rights theorists and activists have engaged with the issue of the differences and commonalities between human beings and nonhuman animals. For this aim, I contrast the sear…
Progress Checking for Dummies
2018
Verification of progress properties is both conceptually and technically significantly more difficult than verification of safety and deadlock properties. In this study we focus on the conceptual side. We make a simple modification to a well-known model to demonstrate that it passes progress verification although the resulting model is intuitively badly incorrect. Then we point out that the error can be caught easily by adding a termination branch to the system. We compare the use of termination branches to the established method of addressing the same need, that is, weak fairness. Then we discuss another problem that may cause failure of catching progress errors even with weak fairness. Fi…
Análisis jurisprudencial de la legitimación pasiva de las entidades financieras en las reclamaciones realizadas por consumidores derivadas de una com…
2021
Consumers, who acquired real estate through a deed of sale with a mortgage subrogation, have made numerous claims against the financial entities. They request the nullity of the clause that imposes upon them all the expenses cause by the notarial deed. Financial entities have alleged that they do not have the capacity to be sued. Courts decisions have been diverse.
Non-existence of unfair delay in the exercise of claim actio for amounts unduly collected. Comment on Spanish STS no. 243/2019, of April (RJ 2019, 15…
2020
El Tribunal Supremo considera que el mero retraso en el ejercicio de una acción de reclamación de cantidad no puede ser considerado por si sólo constitutivo de retraso desleal. Además, es necesario que previamente al ejercicio del derecho existan hechos, actos o conductas que provoquen en el obligado la confianza de que el derecho en su contra no se ejercitará. The Supreme Court considers that the mere delay in the exercise of an action of claim of quantity cannot be considered to constitute unfair delay. In addition, it is necessary that prior to the exercise of the right there are facts, acts or conducts that cause int the obliged the confidence that the right against him will not be exer…
Servicios de intermediación en línea en Europa : diseño de un sistema específico de solución de controversias
2021
Este trabajo analiza el sistema de solución de controversias específicamente diseñado, con la introducción de alternativas a la jurisdicción, en el Reglamento (UE) 2019/1150 sobre el fomento de la equidad y la transparencia para los usuarios profesionales de servicios de intermediación en línea, que ha entrado recientemente en vigor.
La obsolescencia programada : un supuesto de práctica comercial desleal con consumidores
2021
El presente artículo analiza la estrategia comercial desarrollada por la empresa multinacional estadounidense Apple basada en la obsolescencia programada de sus ?smartphones? y su posible consideración como práctica comercial desleal con consumidores y usuarios en el sentido de la Directiva 2005/29/CE.
Sull'esecuzione del contratto secondo buona fede
2023
Il saggio affronta le principali applicazioni della buona fede nell'interpretazione e nell'esecuzione del contratto. L'autore critica alcune soluzioni della giurisprudenza della Corte di cassazione, specie con riguardo a condotte riconducibili alla figura dell'abuso di personalità giuridica. The essay deals with the main applications of good faith in the interpretation and execution of the contract. The author criticizes some solutions of the jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation, especially with regard to conduct attributable to the figure of abuse of the legal person.