There has not been a uniform agreement regarding what constitutes “good” performance for evolutionary algorithms in dynamic environments. A performance measurement method should, as a minimum, have an intuitive meaning and provide straightforward methods for statistical significance testing of comparative results. In this paper we attempt to resolve some issues related to EA performance measure...

The Japanese Economic Review, 2001, 52(4):405–16. This paper investigates the effects of population growth and China’s entry into the world trading regime on the North and the South. In the absence of the terms of trade effect, population growth reduces the standard of living and causes a decline in welfare. Unilateral trade liberalisation of China will worsen the terms of trade for other count...

Enterprise Architecture is gaining interest as a managerial tool for managing corporate ICT assets and their interplay. Our prior studies indicate that an ICT provider’s viewpoint on EA consulting, planning and development seems to be lacking in the proposed methodologies. Considering both literature and practical EA cases, we suggest an approach that supports restricted assignments in EA manag...

The goal of this paper is to develop the formalism of the two-particle irreducible (2PI) [1] (or Cornwall Jackiw Tomboulis (CJT) [2]) effective action (EA) in a way appropiate to its application to non equilibrium gauge theories. We hope this review article will stimulate new work into this field.

In a paper dealing with the representations of Lie groups by linear transformations in the n-dimensional and Hilbert space,' I have obtained the following particular result: Let Ht (c < t < co) be afamily of bounded selfadjoint transformations in Hilbert space i,? forming a group, i.e., Ho = E (the identical transformation), HtHs = Ht + s Suppose that (for every element f in O) the numerical fu...

Despite the increasing number of Americans who are considered to be a part of an ethnoracial minority group, there have been few investigations of the cross-cultural validity of measures of psychopathology. The limited existing literature suggests potential differences between African American (AA) and European American (EA) individuals with respect to the utility of self-report measures, inclu...

Since 1989 the Bank’s Operational Directive (OD) 4.01 Environmental Assessment and its successor documents OP/BP/G 4.0 have required that affected groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) be consulted as part of the environmental assessment of projects and particularly those with potentially significant impacts (Category A). The primary purpose of this provision is to protect the interes...