The Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory has become a fundamental tool in modeling the metabolic behaviour of organisms. Its capacity to describe the biological aspect of life alone justifies its applicability in Artificial Life. Aware of this potential, the DEB research group in Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon has joined the videogame company Biodroid Entertainment in the Life Engine ...

monthly and annual water and phosphorus mass budgets were set up over the year 2010 for thelake rio verde, brazil. limited data for the water budget was compensated using an interpolation methodwith data water budget data of a nearby reservoir. thus, errors of ca. 1.5% were estimated for the waterbudgets. dominant p mass input terms were inflows from the rivers and direct run off into the reser...

در بحث امدادرسانی به مصدومان بلایای طبیعی و غیرطبیعی، هدف اصلی یک زنجیره این است که اقلام موردنیاز مانند آب مواد غذایی، دارویی، پناهگاه سایر ملزومات سریع‌ترین زمان ممکن در­دسترس قرار بگیرد تا از تعداد مرگ‌ومیر ناشی وقوع بلایا حد امکان کاسته شود؛ بنابراین طراحی توسعه اجرایی­کردن می‌تواند نقش مهم بزرگی دست­‌یافتن پاسخ مناسب ایفا کند. بارزترین تفاوت‌ها برخورد با ، غیرقابل‌پیش‌بینی‌­بودن تقاضا نظر ...

In this paper, a reliability approach on reconfiguration decisions in a supply chain network is studied based on coupling the simulation concepts and artificial neural network. In other words, due to the limited budget for warehouse relocation in a supply chain, the failure probability is assessed for determining the robust decision for future supply chain configuration. Traditional solving ...

This study aims to study the effect of elimination of government intervention and liberalizationin meat market in rural area in Iran on consumer welfare with time series data for 1981-2007.An alternative partial equilibrium model was developed to examine the welfare effect of meattrade liberalization. Result show that on producer side, government budget (subsidy onproduction), foreign exchange ...

We study the controller synthesis problem under budget constraints. In this problem, there is a cost associated with making an observation, and a controller can make only a limited number of observations in each round so that the total cost of the observations does not exceed a given fixed budget. The controller must ensure some ω-regular requirement subject to the budget constraint. Budget con...

In this paper, the sustainability of public debt is interpreted as the result of the interaction of fiscal policy with the economic environment, and not as a statistical concept as in most of the recent literature. If debt must not explode over time, policy makers have to respond to the changing conditions in the macroeconomic environment. This paper defines the conditions which will ensure com...