Laboratory architecture: Building for an uncertain future

Saving for an uncertain future.

T he units that are subject to selection pressure in evolutionary biology are ‘‘strategies,’’ which are conditional actions (for example, do P if X occurs; otherwise do Q). In contrast, the units in economics (they are called ‘‘people’’) select strategies from available menus so as to further their projects and purposes. If evolutionary dynamics involves mindless competition among strategies, e...

Discounting an uncertain future

The objective of this paper is to determine the socially optimal discount rate for public investment projects that entail costs and benefits in the very long run. We suppose that there is an exogenous process for the growth of consumption per capita, which is stochastic. We first evaluate the determinants of the discount rate for a specific horizon when the representative agent has a recursive ...

An Agent Architecture for Structured Uncertain Environments

This thesis proposal investigates a solution in building cognitive agents able to operate in a realistic environment. Agents have been the subject of study in different fields raising questions about their behavior, structure, relations with other agents and the environment. The main trend in the programming area is to model agents based on the knowledge of a problem domain, rarely learning or ...

An uncertain future for cardiovascular drug development?

Providing an Enterprise Architecture Framework Model for Laboratory Information Management Systems by Service Oriented Approach

Background and Aim: Laboratories are one of the most important scientific and research centers. Laboratory information management systems provide a platform for recording the information and collaborating between researchers. The main purpose of this study was suggesting an organizational architecture model of laboratory information management systems.  Materials and Methods: This study was a ...