Putting More Thought into Criminology

Putting More Genetics into Genetic Algorithms

The majority of current genetic algorithms (GAs), while inspired by natural evolutionary systems, are seldom viewed as biologically plausible models. This is not a criticism of GAs, but rather a reflection of choices made regarding the level of abstraction at which biological mechanisms are modeled, and a reflection of the more engineering-oriented goals of the evolutionary computation communit...

Putting more practice into communities of practice

The Paper is based on the evaluation of a sample of communities of practice formed with funding from Reframing the Future in 2002. The paper provides three good practice examples from the 2002 communities that were effective in identifying, reflecting upon and improving their practice, such as their ideas, tools and work styles. This reflection on practice was particularly apparent in the follo...

Preferences; Putting More Knowledge into Queries

Preferences: Putting More Knowledge into Queries * M. Lacroix and P. Lavency Philips Research Laboratory, Brussels Classical query languages provide a way to express mandatory qualifications on the data to be retrieved. They do not feature facilities for expressing preferences or desirable qualifications. The need for preferences is illustrated in a software engineering framework. A preference ...

putting prevention into practice

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Putting Theory into Practice