In Evolutionary Computation, genetic operators, such as, mutation and crossover, are employed to variate the individuals to generate next population. However, these fixed, problem independent genetic operators may destroy the subsolution, usually called building blocks, instead of discovering and preserving them. One way to overcome this problem is to build a model based on the good individuals...

This paper describes an initial implementation of an in terac t ive programming assistant system called the Programmer's Apprent ice (PA). The PA. is designed to be midway be tween an improved programming methodology and an automatic programming sys tem. The intent ion is that the programmer wil l do the hard par ts of design and implementation while the PA wil l assist him wherever possible. O...

Sustained Hospital-based Wellness Program Karen Danielson, MS, CHES; Katharine Jeffers, MS, RN; Leslie Kaiser, BA; Lee McKinley, MD, FACP; Thomas Kuhn, MSN, ANP-BC, COHN-S, CCM; Gigi Voorhies CTRS, CHMS Introduction: Beginning as a grassroots initiative, a community hospital employing 2800 celebrates the stress-transforming benefits of HeartMath for its employees and community. Initially introd...

Program analysis is fundamental for program optimizations, debugging, and many other tasks. But developing program analyses has been a challenging and error-prone process for general users. Declarative program analysis has shown the promise to dramatically improve the productivity in the development of program analyses. Current declarative program analysis is however subject to some major limit...

M than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, leading to the development of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, killing one in four Americans, and more than 73 million people have elevated cholesterol levels. Nutrition is a key element in maintaining wellness and managing chronic illness...

■ The Midcourse Space Experiment satellite was launched in 1996 into an 898-km altitude, near sun-synchronous orbit. A principal sensor on board the satellite is the Space-Based Visible (SBV) sensor, a visible-band electro-optical camera designed at Lincoln Laboratory to perform the first technical and functional demonstration of space-based space surveillance. The principal task of the SBV sen...

Notwithstanding the success of collaborative filtering algorithms for item recommendation there are still situations in which there is a need for content-based recommendation, especially in new-item scenarios, e.g. in streaming broadcasting. Since video content is hard to analyze we use documents describing the videos to compute item similarities. We do not use the descriptions directly, but us...

The paper presents a set of algorithms for the conversion of rule bases between priority-based and constraintbased representations. Inspired by research in precedential reasoning in law, such algorithms can be used for the analysis of a rule base, and for the study of the impact of the introduction of new rules. In addition, the paper explores an optimization mechanism, built upon assumptions a...

the prevent alcohol and risk related trauma in youth (p.a.r.t.y.) program is an injury prevention program set up in 2011 at a level-1 trauma center in germany. its objective is the prevention of road traffic accidents among young road users. our goal is to enable adolescents to recognize risks and to improve life-changing behavior to reduce the severity of injury and the number of killed young ...