This paper presents three hybrid metaheuristic algorithms that further improve the two hybrid differential evolution (DE) metaheuristic algorithms described in Liao [1]. The three improved algorithms are: (i) MDE′–HJ, which is a modification of MA–MDE′ in Liao [1] by replacing the random walk with direction exploitation local search with the Hooke and Jeeves (HJ) method; (ii) MDE′–IHS–HJ, which...

The present paper focuses on some interesting classes of process-control games, where winning essentially means successfully controlling the process. A master for one of these games is an agent who plays a winning-strategy. In this paper we investigate situations, in which even a complete model (given by a program) of a particular game does not provide enough information to synthesize | even in...

introduction. with recognition of clinical education problems in nursing and midwifery, the people in charge will be able to plan the optimal education programs to promote quality presentation of health services to all persons of the community. surveying the view points of students and faculty members of nursing and midwifery about clinical education problems were the aims of this study. method...

SemCast is a content-based dissemination model for large-scale data delivery applications. The model aims to segregate stream content over multiple channels, each of which acts as an independent dissemination tree. The channel contents, rates and destinations are monitored to determine if performance improvements are possible on the system. For my masters project, I implement the basic system m...

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