In this paper we present a method for the automatic discovery and tuning of term similarities. The method is based on the automatic extraction of significant patterns in which terms tend to appear. Beside that, we use lexical and functional similarities between terms to define a hybrid similarity measure as a linear combination of the three similarities. We then present a genetic algorithm appr...

Late-onset myoclonic epilepsy is being increasingly recognized as a late complication in elderly patients with Down syndrome (DS) in association with cognitive decline. This specific syndrome bears some broad clinical and EEG similarities to the progressive myoclonic epilepsies, particularly Unverricht-Lundborg disease (ULD). Our aim was to investigate a possible shared patho-genetic mechanism ...

This article describes the similarities between learning classifier systems (LCSs) and coevolutionary algorithm, and exploits these similarities by taking ideas used by LCSs to design a non-generational coevolutionary algorithm that incrementally estimates fitness of individuals. The algorithm solves some of the problems known to exist in coevolutionary algorithms: it does not loose gradient an...

Oenocarpus mapora is an Amazonian palm species commonly used by native populations for food and in folk medicine. We measured genetic variability, using RAPD markers, of material kept in a germplasm bank composed of accessions sampled from the Brazilian Amazon. These included 74 individuals from 23 accessions sampled from 9 localities in three States of the Brazilian Amazon. Jaccard genet...