Golden jackal optimization (GJO) is inspired by the cooperative attacking behavior of golden jackals and mainly simulates searching for prey, stalking enclosing pouncing on prey to solve complicated problems. However, basic GJO has disadvantages premature convergence, a slow convergence rate low computation precision. To enhance overall search abilities, an enhanced (EGJO) method with elite opp...

Virus isolates from three important reservoirs for rabies in Africa (domestic dogs, jackals and yellow mongooses) were compared by their reaction with a panel of monoclonal antibodies directed to the nucleocapsid protein and by the nucleotide sequence of a 200 base pair segment of the nucleocapsid gene. Although antigenically dissimilar, the variants commonly transmitted in dogs and jackals wer...

Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversationbased approach is largely determined by the conversational model it uses. Finite State Machines, used heavily to date for this purpose, are not su cient for complex agent interactions requiring a notion of concurrency. We propose the use of Colored Petri Nets as a model underlying...

Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational model it uses. Finite State Machines, used heavily to date for this purpose, are not su cient for complex agent interactions requiring a notion of concurrency. We propose the use of Colored Petri Nets as a model underlyin...

A rapid and extensive range expansion of the golden jackal has recently been documented in continental Europe, raising new policy legal questions creating an urgent need to understand mechanisms underlying this distribution change. Because human persecution, population Greece went through a serious bottleneck is therefore now listed as endangered. We used data from field work publicly accessibl...