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Balancing contractual and relational approaches for PPP success and sustainability
Useful synergies are targeted by proposing a convergence of hitherto parallel international endeavours towards: (1) developing better and sustainable relationships for more productive construction project teams, in general; and (2) optimising the necessarily long term contractual arrangements of PPPs in particular. Examples are drawn from Africa and Latin America to reinforce reported PPP experiences from other regions, in building up a case for injecting ‘relational contracting approaches’ in order to develop more productive and sustainable PPPs. Strong and sustainable relationships are shown to be essential, and complementary to appropriate contractual incentives, that would together empower PPP project teams to focus on developing sustainable infrastructure and ultimately on overall sustainable development. These propositions are merged into a basic model that merits further investigation and development, in order to ensure that planned PPPs benefit the community at large, in respect of both present and future generations
Improved Algorithms for the Point-Set Embeddability problem for Plane 3-Trees
In the point set embeddability problem, we are given a plane graph with
vertices and a point set with points. Now the goal is to answer the
question whether there exists a straight-line drawing of such that each
vertex is represented as a distinct point of as well as to provide an
embedding if one does exist. Recently, in \cite{DBLP:conf/gd/NishatMR10}, a
complete characterization for this problem on a special class of graphs known
as the plane 3-trees was presented along with an efficient algorithm to solve
the problem. In this paper, we use the same characterization to devise an
improved algorithm for the same problem. Much of the efficiency we achieve
comes from clever uses of the triangular range search technique. We also study
a generalized version of the problem and present improved algorithms for this
version of the problem as well
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