JAX Colony Management System (JCMS): an extensible colony and phenotype data management system

Monkey colony management.

Designing and Implementing an Asthma Management System Based on Air Pollution Data

Introduction: Asthma is an untreatable but manageable disease that has increased dramatically during the last fifty years due to contamination of the surrounding environment with triggers such as air pollution and has become one of the common chronic diseases throughout the world. Researchers consider allergies and environmental stimuli to be one of the essential components of asthma management...

REAM: An SQL Based and Extensible Relational Database Management System

REAM (RElational dAtabase Management system) is a relational database management system developed by OKI. The relational database has been expected to be widespread thanks to its well-defined mathematical foundation; however, application programmers have suffered from incompatible access interfaces among various so-called relational database svstems so far due to the absence of the internationa...

Ant Colony System Optimization

Successful heuristic algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems have mimicked processes observed in nature. Two highly successful families of algorithms that do this are simulated annealing and genetic algorithms. Here, a third family of algorithms, ant colony optimization is explored and implemented in C#. The test bed for evaluating the quality of solutions is based on several...

Recruiting Ant Colony System

We briefly describe an approach to extend the Ant Colony System by a group recruitment strategy. The underlying idea is very similar to the behavior of real ants, which use e.g. tandem-techniques to guide each other to large food sources. General investigations with small and medium sized colonies have shown that such strategies in combination with mass recruitment (pheromones) increase the foo...