As the impacts of climate change become increasingly evident, resource managers and conservationists are being challenged to rethink long-held assumptions and strategies. Preparing for and coping with the effects of climate change—or climate adaptation—is becoming an overarching framework for conservation, and offers insight into the reconsideration of existing goals and strategies. This is an ...

Operating conditions are often changing so strongly that the changes in nonlinearities must be taken into account. A practical solution comprises several intelligent systems: intelligent analysers make the adaptation easier by providing informative measurements for the controller, and high-level control supervises the adaptation procedure. Linguistic equation (LE) controllers combine various co...

the main purpose of this research was to study the variables and factors that affect adaptation of university to external environment and to develop a model for assessment of tehran public universities adaptation to external environment. a mixed method research approach involving a three-round delphi study was used to record responses to the closed-questions and open-ended-questions. other data...

Self-adaptive software-intensive cyber-physical systems (sasiCPS) encounter a high level of run-time uncertainty. State-of-the-art architecture-based self-adaptation approaches assume designing against a fixed set of situations that warrant self-adaptation; as a result, failures may appear when sasiCPS operate in environment conditions they are not specifically designed for. In response, we pro...