Push technologies are rapidly moving toward autonomous and evolutionary intelligent agents for seeking, organizing, and creating information via the Web and other pervasive and innovative information technologies. We describe and define autonomous and evolutionary agents designed for push technologies. Memes, which are messages one agent broadcasts to another, causing the agent to evolve are in...

lutely lacks feed back to candidates interested in a teaching job thereby resulting usually into deliberate selection and non selection of undeserved and meritorious candidates, respectively. The selection procedure also allows many candidates to try various pushes and pulls (both financially and politically) to get entry into lecturership. Until this phenomenon is totally replaced by ethical s...

Background. There is a strong regional component to most environmental issues. It is difficult to fully appreciate, let alone address, regional environmental problems from the seat of the central government. This situation has been recognized by various agencies; such as, EPA and NPS. Within NOAA, it has been recognized by only NWS and NMFS. While there is some regional distribution to the OAR ...

In this paper I compare cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to multi-criteria analysis (MCA). I review the nature of the two approaches and consider the criticisms that have been made of CBA. I conclude that these criticisms largely lack merit, and that even to the extent to which they are meritorious, they provide no justification for relying on MCA. I conclude by expressing my concerns about the grow...

The profuse use of the information highway has promoted it as a meritorious medium for global information sharing; accessing and sharing information stored in different databases that are inter-linked by the internet. We present an internet-based database application, a ‘Re-configurable Internet Information Broker’ that provides (a) the functionality to dynamically connect and interact in real-...