The REBOUND adaptation framework organizes a collection of adaptation tactics in a way that they can be selected based on the components available for adaptation. Adaptation tactics are specified formally in terms of the relationship between the component to be adapted and the resulting adapted component. The tactic specifications are used as matching conditions for specification-based componen...

Street demonstrations occur across the world. In Rio de Janeiro, June/July 2013, they reach beyond one million people. A wrathful reader of O Globo, leading newspaper in the same city, published a letter [1] where many social questions are stated and answered Yes or No. These million people of street demonstrations share opinion consensus about a similar set of social issues. But they did not r...

9 Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a bottom-up modeling approach, where each entity of the system being modeled is uniquely represented as an independent decision-making agent. ABMs are very sensitive to implementation details. Thus, it is very easy to inadvertently introduce changes which modify model dynamics. Such problems usually arise due to the lack of transparency in model descriptions, whi...

We propose a Case-Based Reasoning approach for action selection in the robot soccer domain presented in the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (2006). Based on the current state of a game, the robots retrieve the most similar past situation and then the team reproduces the sequence of actions performed in that occasion. In this domain we have to deal with all the difficulties that ...

1.5 Range of Application, Dosage, Mode of Administration 1.5.1 Indications 1.5.1.1 General Principles 1.5.1.2 Acute Blood Loss 1.5.1.3 Chronic Anemias 1.5.2 Indications for Special RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.1 Irradiated Leukocyte-Depleted RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.2 Washed RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.3 Cryopreserved RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.4 CMV and Parvovirus B19 1.5.3 Selection and Dosage of RBC Concentr...

Selecting Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components to fit requirements is still a problem because of the "black box" nature of COTS components and the rapid changes in marketplace. This paper describes the problems of COTS software evaluation and reviews existing frameworks to support COTS software evaluation and selection. Although a number of initiatives have been proposed to deal ...

Quality assurance remains a key topic in human computation research. Prior work indicates that majority voting is effective for low difficulty tasks, but has limitations for harder tasks. This paper explores two methods of addressing this problem: tournament selection and elimination selection, which exploit 2-, 3and 4-way comparisons between different answers to human computation tasks. Our ex...

This article proposes an agent-based model to study the impact of the European regulation REACH on industrial dynamics. This new regulation was adopted in 2006 and establishes a new philosophy of how to design environmental protection and health, especially through the authorization process and the extended producer responsibility. The main contribution of this article is to investigate how dif...

The process of evolution involves the emergence and disappearance of species. Many factors affect on the survival of species. Real study of factors’ influence is particularly difficult due to the complex interaction between them. An individual-based model (IBM) can assist in the analysis of effective factors. In this study, using an IBM called EcoSim, we have examined the impact of some factors...

in this paper, we propose a new gene selection algorithm based on shuffled frog leaping algorithm that is called sfla-fs. the proposed algorithm is used for improving cancer classification accuracy. most of the biological datasets such as cancer datasets have a large number of genes and few samples. however, most of these genes are not usable in some tasks for example in cancer classification. ...