there have been different indices identified for desertification. among these is technogenic desertification index which seems much more efficient. in this study, some of technogenic desertification indices were studied and evaluated. first land use maps of the region were taken from irs-pan satellite image and aerial photos analysis. after evaluating the area of different uses, lands that had ...

The majority of Procedural Content Generation (PCG) research has made use of human authored rules, heuristics and evaluation metrics. Machine learning techniques have gone relatively unused in PCG. We introduce a data-driven level generation approach, and apply it to the of dungeons for Zelda-like Action Roleplaying Games (ARPGs). We use Bayesian Networks (BNs) to learn distributional informati...

When executing their tasks, Grid and Cloud users want to express their requirements in terms of high-level metrics (e.g. in terms of execution time, not in terms of CPU MHz). Moreover, at the submission time they would like to know if the resource provider will fulfil with their requirements in order to decide if they would rather prefer another provider. On the other hand, the resource provide...