Videogames have become an important field in both the entertainment industry and the computational intelligence research community. Procedural Content Generation (PCG) allows to generate automatically interesting contents for a videogame with a low supervision from the game designers, or even without their supervision. This paper presents a search-based procedural content generator algorithm, t...

This Case Study describes the considerations that are needed to produce maps of data from the Census of Population. The ‘area value’ or choropleth map is the standard means of displaying such information on paper. It is a very imperfect visualisation device. First, it is necessary to be careful about the numbers that are mapped and, in particular, never to map absolute numbers. Second, chorople...

to investigate pedological criterion on land degradation in quaternary rock units, at first, a part of the shoor watershed area was selected. after distinguishing target area, slope classes, land use and geology maps were created, then map of units were founded by overlaying and crossing these maps. in this research three indices of erodibility, salinity and permeability of soils were considere...

A random beacon periodically outputs a random number and was introduced by Rabin[12] to secure remote transaction. We consider a random beacon that is pervasive in the sense that, it is available everywhere, and accesses to the beacon blends with normal activities. With a pervasive beacon, it is difficult to disrupt the beacon and detect accesses to it. As a result, the pervasiveness of the bea...

Currently, robotic rotorcraft determine landing zones based on visual cues or predetermined GPS waypoints. Missions such as perch-and-stare or cargo delivery demand the ability to detect safe landing zones in unstructured environments. To enable these missions, high fidelity maps can be constructed to assist the robot in locating a place to land. In constructing these maps, realistic problems s...

Revealing the layout of cortical maps is important both for understanding the processes involved in their development and for uncovering the mechanisms underlying neural computation. The typical organization of orientation maps in the cat visual cortex is radial; complete orientation cycles are mapped around orientation singularities. In contrast, long linear zones of orientation representation...

In a paper by Biro et al. [2], a novel twist on guarding in art galleries, motivated by geographical greedy routing in sensor networks, is introduced. A beacon is a point that when activated induces a force of attraction, or repulsion that can move points within the environment. The effect of a beacon is similar to standard visibility with some additional properties. The effects of a beacon are...