Yaşar University

About: Yaşar University is a education organization based out in Izmir, Turkey. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Exergy & Job shop scheduling. The organization has 760 authors who have published 1436 publications receiving 20813 citations. The organization is also known as: Yaşar Üniversitesi.

A Model Proposal on the Use of Creative Tourism Experiences in Congress Tourism and the Congress Marketing Mix

Abstract: Congress tourism has a great importance for the extension of the tourism season, enhancement of employment opportunities and tourism revenues, promotion and efficient use of the facilities in the area. Creative Tourism provides an authentic feel for a local culture through informal, hands-on work- shops and creative experiences. Ensuring that the attendants of congress tourism take part in creative tourism activities may be an example of the synergy to be achieved by including creative tourism in the congress marketing mix. In this study the tourism marketing mix, programming, packaging, partnership, people, product, price, promotion, place, are adapted for congress tourism and a model which illustrates how to use the creative tourism experiences and activities within the marketing mix is proposed.

A memetic algorithm with a variable block insertion heuristic for single machine total weighted tardiness problem with sequence dependent setup times

Abstract: In this paper, a memetic algorithm with a variable block insertion heuristic is presented to solve the single machine total weighted tardiness problem with sequence dependent setup times. Together with the traditional insertion neighborhood structure, the memetic algorithm is combined with a variable block insertion heuristic in which a block of jobs are removed from a sequence and then inserted into all possible positions of the partial sequence. For this purpose, we devise a variable neighborhood descent algorithm to incorporate different block insertion heuristics having different block sizes. We also employ a simulated annealing type of acceptance criterion to diversify the population. To evaluate its performance, the memetic algorithm is tested on a set of benchmark instances from the literature. The analyses of experimental results have shown highly effective performance of the memetic algorithm against the best performing algorithms from the literature. The proposed memetic algorithm was able to find 98 out 120 optimal solutions within reasonable CPU times.

The relationship between executive functions, episodic feeling-of-knowing and confidence judgements

Abstract: Metamemory processes and executive control may be related, given that both are frontally mediated. However, previous behavioural research has been limited in identifying common processes driving this somewhat weak relationship partly because they mostly relied upon global executive measures and composite scores of executive function (EF). The present study investigated the relationship between specific EFs (task shifting, interference resolution), working memory capacity and feeling-of-knowing (FOK) and confidence judgements (CONF) in an episodic memory task. We found that, of the EFs, only task-switching performance was correlated with FOK accuracy and proposed a shared mechanism that may be at play in both task-switching and FOK judgements. We also demonstrated that interference resolution and episodic memory measures were related, suggesting strategic influences on memory retrieval. Finally, we found a strong consistency in the strength and accuracy of FOK and CONF judgements, possibly due to retrieval...