elite's trust is an important part of the social capital in a social system that can lead to further system goals. relationship and influence on students by the professors of universities has an important place for them among the elite. subject of this article is the trust of university professors in islamic republic of iran (iri). essential questions focused on various aspects of professo...

Set covering problem is the model for many important industrial applications. In this paper, we solve some benchmarks of this problem with ant colony optimization algorithms using a new transition rule. A look-ahead mechanism was incorporated to check constraint consistency in ant computing. Computational results are presented showing the advantages to use this additional mechanism to ant syste...

Water distribution systems (WDSs) are costly infrastructure, and much attention has been given to the application of optimisation methods to minimise design costs. In previous studies, Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) has been found to perform extremely competitively for WDS optimisation. In this paper, five ACO algorithms are tested: one basic algorithm (Ant System) and four more advanced algorit...

We have used the metaphor of ant colonies to define "the Ant system", a class of distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization. To test the Ant system we used the travelling salesman problem. In this paper we analyze some properties of Ant-cycle, the up to now best performing of the ant algorithms we have tested. We report many results regarding its performance when varying the values o...

This paper presents an application of the Ant colony optimization metaheuristic to the job shop scheduling problem. A pheromone alteration strategy which improves the basic ant system by utilizing the behaviour of artificial ants to perform local search is introduced. Experiments using well-known benchmark JSSP problems show that this approach improves on the performance obtained by the basic a...

| Ant System is a general purpose algorithm inspired by the study of the behavior of Ant Colonies. It is based on a cooperative search paradigm that is applicable to the solution of combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper we introduce MAX{MIN Ant System, an improved version of basic Ant System, and report our results for its application to symmetric and asymmetric instances of the we...

Current situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Education for the liberal professions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elite education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 General...

Our research deals with the relationship between voice and gesture during speech in an interview situation. In this study, we focus on rapid eyebrow movements during questioning. Eyebrow movements were recorded using a motion analysis system (ELITE) enabling computer reconstruction of the trajectories of small infrared retroflexive markers attached to the subject's skin. This kinematic data and...