Different techniques have been introduced for the improvement of Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) to increase their performance as well as to achieve better results. Adaptive methods are commonly used. In the scope of this work these extensions are applied to GeLog, a system which implements a combination of two different approaches for automatic programming: inductive logic programming and genetic...

Pair programming has gained widespread popularity with the advent of agile methodologies like Extreme Programming. Studies examining productivity improvement resulting from pair programming have produced mixed results. One of the important factors contributing to successful pair programming is pair composition. Developers’ styles need to be complimentary to each other, in order for each develop...

In this paper, we study a supply chain scheduling problem that simultaneously considers production scheduling and product delivery.  jobs have to be scheduled on a single machine and delivered to  customers for further processing in batches. The objective is to minimize the sum of the total weighted number of tardy jobs and the delivery costs. In this paper, we present a heuristic algorithm (HA...

abstract- this study aims to model optimal cultivation pattern based on the maximization of importing virtual water and social net income of major crops in marvdasht, iran. for this purpose, a linear programming model was developed considering constraints of virtual water and land limitations followed by other models to include employment restrictions. based on the findings, wheat and tomato we...

Enzymes are one of the most important biomolecules which has a wide range of applications in industrial as well as biomedical field. They are important due to their many useful properties. Their development, to a great extent, has been possible due to the availability of microbial sources. Microorganisms are of much attention because they can be produced economically and are amenable to genetic...

1 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, National Horticultural Research Center, P. O. Box 01000 220, Thika. 2 Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 3 Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 4 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Biotechnology Cen...

At the last Pig Genetics Workshop two papers described aspects of the lost potential in pig production at the commercial level. Black (2000) estimated that slower growth, reduced efficiency of feed use and fatter carcases decreased the profitability of pig enterprises by as much as 25%. Walters (2000) estimated that successful progress had been achieved in backfat reduction but that there were ...

This paper investigates the use of evolutionary programming for the search of hypothesis space in visual learning tasks. The general goal of the project is to elaborate human-competitive procedures for pattern discrimination by means of learning based on the training data (set of images). In particular, the topic addressed here is the comparison between the ‘standard’ genetic programming (as de...

In evolutionary programming, each parent has two pieces of information: location and cost. The cost of parent specifies whether its location is suitable for breeding offspring or not. If the parent’s cost is an acceptable value, producing offspring (or even steering other offspring) in the parent’s area is advisable. This information is used in estimating the region of global minimum; then, usi...

In this article, we introduce a new conception of a family of esport games called Samu Entropy to try to improve dataflow program graphs like the ones that are based on Google’s TensorFlow. Currently, the Samu Entropy project specifies only requirements for new esport games to be developed with particular attention to the investigation of the relationship between esport and artificial intellige...