In this paper we study the emergence of homeodynamics and adaptation in a two-layer system of the Game of Life in which the Game of Life in the first layer couples with another cellular automata system in the second layer. Homeodynamics is defined here as a space-time dynamic that regulates the number of cells in state-1 in the Game of Life layer. A genetic algorithm is used here to evolve the ...

The ensemble classifier plays a critical role in protein fold recognition. In this article, a novel hierarchical ensemble classifier named GAOEC (Genetic-Algorithm Optimized Ensemble Classifier) is presented and it can be constructed in the following steps. First, a novel optimized classifier named GAET-KNN (Genetic-Algorithm Evidence-Theoretic K Nearest Neighbors) is proposed as a component cl...

This paper addresses the issue of cell loss and its consequent effect on video quality in a packet video system, and examines possible compensative measures. In the system's enconder, adaptive spectral separation is used to develop a two-layer coding scheme comprising a high priority layer to carry essential video data and a low priority layer with data to enhance the video image. A two-step er...

A characteristics of imbalanced points is their localities—an imbalanced point may be contiguous to some other imbalanced points in terms of 8-connectivity. A two-layer scheme was recently proposed for matching imbalanced points based on localities, where the first layer aims to build locality correspondence, and the second layer aims to build point correspondence within corresponding localitie...

Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure & Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China, State Key Lab for Advanced Photonic Materials and Devices, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People’s Republic of China, and State Key Lab on Integrated Opto-electronics, Jilin University Region, Changchun 130023, ...

Binary operations on commutative Jordan algebras are used to carry out the ANOVA of a two layer model. The treatments in the first layer nests those in the second layer, that being a sub-model for each treatment in the first layer. We present an application with data retried from agricultural experiments.

A combination of electrostatic interactions and covalent bonding is used to form films with low-molecular-weight chromophores by a layer-by-layer deposition process. Using a common, commercially available red dye, this deposition process results in noncentrosymmetric films (see scheme) that exhibit secondharmonic generation (red green), with (2) values as large as 11.3 10 9 esu, that is, six ti...