The paper deals with the concrete planning problem (CPP) – a stage of the Web Service Composition (WSC) in the PlanICS framework. A novel SMT-based approach to CPP is defined and its performance is compared to the standard Genetic Algorithm (GA) in the framework of the PlanICS system. The discussion of both the approaches is supported by extensive experimental results.

OBJECTIVES To determine the health status of athletes before the start of an international athletics championship and to determine whether preparticipation risk factors predicted in-championship injuries. METHODS At the beginning of the 2013 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, all registered athletes (n=1784) were invited to complete a preparticipati...

Purpose This study aims to explain why organisations remain vulnerable financial failure despite increasing regulation improve governance. Using a case of gambling and in professional football England, it introduces the concept “regulatory legitimacy” show how this enables clubs gamble. Design/methodology/approach The quantifies extent which Championship English Football League (EFL) adopt conv...

Background. Attention to the loyalty of fans to the long-term success of sports organizations has become increasingly important. On this note, it seems necessary to pay attention to the variables that predict and influence the loyalty of spectators. Objectives. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of satisfaction in the effect of team reputation and team quality on the loy...

Background: Lavender is one type of medicinal plants which have long been used for different purposes. Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of fragrances of Lavender on the Quality of Sleep, Mood, Team Cohesion and Performance of Women Volleyball Players. Methods: The participants in this study were 24 women volleyball players from Junior Clubs First Championship ...

Sports had always fascinated humanity. In this context, soccer was taken as a study source. The objective of this paper is to formulate a simulation model to generate estimators for necessary scores to achieve certain places at the final classification ranking of the Brazilian National Soccer Championship. The main data used are the rules of the championship, the number of competitors and the p...

Opponent modeling in games deals with analyzing opponents’ behavior and devising a winning strategy. In this paper we present an approach to model low level behavior of individual agents using Robocup Soccer Simulation 3D environment. In 2D League, the primitive actions of agents such as Kick, Turn and Dash are known and high level behaviors are derived using these low level behaviors. In 3D Le...

This paper develops a Bayesian model for the analysis of bidding behaviour in nal ooer arbitration. Posterior calculations are obtained using a Markov chain algorithm. An example is considered using salary data from major league baseball.

Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that exceeds that of the strongest human players. MAVEN was the first program to demonstrate this against human opposition. Scrabble is a game of imperfect information with a large branching factor. The techniques successfully applied in two-player games such as chess do not work here. MAVEN combines a selective move generator, sim...