Genetic Experiments with Cosmos. II

Empirical evaluation of COSMOS 4 WS ii Empirical evaluation of COSMOS 4 WS

Coalescent experiments II: Markov bases of classical population genetic statistics

Evaluating the likelihood function of parameters in complex population genetic models from extant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences is computationally prohibitive. In such cases, one may approximately infer the parameters from various summary statistics of the data. Such method are known as approximate likelihood/Bayesian computations. We employ computational commutative algebraic methods t...

The Concept of Fractal Cosmos: Ii. Modern Cosmology

In the previous article (Grujić 2001, to be referred to as I) we examined Anaxagoras’ worldview and compared his hierarchical cosmos with that of Democritus. We analyzed a number of possible interpretations of his cosmology and argued that his ideas could be put in terms of the modern concept of fractal structuring of the material objects. The idea of hierarchical structuring of the material wo...

Modern Educational Experiments, II

CoSMoS 2008

In recent years the concept of emergence has gained much attention as computer systems have started exhibiting properties usually associated with complex systems. Although emergence creates many problems for engineering complex computerized systems by introducing undesired behaviour, it also offers many possibilities for advancements in the area of adaptive self-organizing systems. However, at ...