He said he expected some job cuts in overlapping departments, though he declined to say how many.
The Multi-Floor Layout Problem (MFLP) is the problem of finding the position of each department in a plant floor in a multi-floor building without any overlapping between departments in order to optimize a particular objective function, more commonly the sum of the material handling costs.
Moreover, there is an elevator set for transferring materials between floors and should be located without overlapping with departments and storages.
Under the proposed deal, Mr Pickles would have greater control over budgets like this and make savings in areas where spending currently overlaps between departments.
Although this system is utterly bewildering, with agencies and departments overlapping in their responsibilities, he said it would be a mistake to try to reorganize.
Two of the Conservative Party's biggest beasts will have to put their acrimonious past behind them as they run departments with overlapping remits and conflicting interests.
If a convention is not allowed, say, to put limits on the costs of operating hundreds of tiny school districts, tiny police departments and overlapping municipal governments, then its choices come down to raising taxes someplace else.
Many regulatory departments have overlapping mandates.
In one of the exact procedures, the facility layout problem is formulated as a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model in which binary (0/1) variables are used to prevent departments from overlapping with one another.
Australian ECEC is a multi-layered (across state/territory and commonwealth governments), complex system (i.e., overlapping responsibility betwee n departments within different governments (for providing, funding and regulating childcare.
