The paper discusses the innovative sense of using Decision Support System based on a Bioinspired Algorithm related with Social Modelling in the build of three different scenarios to analyze the future promotion of sports in a larger city in Mexico, this research which permits select a specific number of locations to practice each one of 47 sports –In a time horizon of 20 years-related with a Na...

This article argues that contemporary, computer-mediated, algorithmic forms of sociality problematize a long and major tradition in cultural anthropology, which has appropriated the notion of artistic style to theorize culture as a relatively distinct, coherent, and durable configuration of behavioral dispositions. The article’s ethnographic site is a lab in a major institute of technology in t...

Nearly every community of practice develops its own representations to support the practices of the community. For example, the community of electric circuit designers has developed circuit diagrams to represent electric circuits. Members of that community rely on such diagrams to discuss, communicate, and document what they do. Past research has established that members of a given community no...

A novel cultural quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization algorithm (CQPSO) is proposed to improve the performance of the quantum-behaved PSO (QPSO). The cultural framework is embedded in the QPSO, and the knowledge stored in the belief space can guide the evolution of the QPSO. 15 high-dimensional and multi-modal functions are employed to investigate the proposed algorithm. Numerical simula...

D.J. Kennett , J.P. Kennett , G.J. West , J.M. Erlandson , J.R. Johnson , I.L. Hendy , A. West g , B.J. Culleton , T.L. Jones , Thomas W. Stafford, Jr. i a Department of Anthropology, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA b Department of Earth Science, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA c Department of Anthropology, University of Californ...

in order to estimate doa of coherent sources, shirvani moghaddam and keshavarz nasab proposed a method based on uniform linear array configuration that first determines the number of noncoherent sources and then estimates the doa of coherent signals in each group. for estimating doas close to the array endfire, ula does not perform well. as the main goal of this investigation, using the propose...

The Arroyo Seco 2 site contains a rich archaeological record, exceptional for South America, to explain the expansion of Homo sapiens into the Americas and their interaction with extinct Pleistocene mammals. The following paper provides a detailed overview of material remains found in the earliest cultural episodes at this multi-component site, dated between ca. 12,170 14C yrs B.P. (ca. 14,064 ...

Parental acceptance and control are the 2 dimensions of parenting that have been investigated most; however, little is known about their cross-cultural expressions. This longitudinal study examined acceptance, control, and R. Chao's indigenous Chinese notion of control--chiao shun (training)--in 35 immigrant Chinese American (CA) and 38 European American (EA) families. Data were collected when ...

This paper proposes a technique in which domain knowledge obtained from the search is used to improve the performance of evolutionary programming. Our approach is based on the concept of a cultural algorithm and is applied to constrained optimization problems in which a map of the feasible region is used to guide the search more efficiently. Our implementation uses 2-trees to store more efficie...

Extracting the rules from spatio-temporal patterns generated by the evolution of cellular automata (CA) usually produces a CA rule table without providing a clear understanding of the structure of the neighborhood or the CA rule. In this paper, a new identification method based on using a modified orthogonal least squares or CA-OLS algorithm to detect the neighborhood structure and the underlyi...