Leading medical associations have called for renewed standards of medical professionalism, including stronger public advocacy, a commitment to social justice in health care, and greater community engagement. New strategies are needed to enhance community participation among physicians, which can improve public trust in the medical profession and contribute needed expertise and teamwork to matte...

This document presents software product metrics we usually use to build software defect prediction models. 1 Software product metrics This document presents software product metrics we usually use to build software defect prediction models, especially those built by Madeyski and Jureczko [6, 5, 4]. • The metrics suite suggested by Chidamber and Kemerer [2]: Weighted Methods per Class (WMC). The...

Colliding bodies optimization (CBO) is a new population-based stochastic optimization algorithm based on the governing laws of one dimensional collision between two bodies from the physics. Each agent is modeled as a body with a specified mass and velocity. A collision occurs between pairs of objects to find the global or near-global solutions. Enhanced colliding bodies optimization (ECBO) uses...

The current practices of software industry demands development of a software within time and budget which is highly productive. The traditional approach of developing a software from scratch requires considerable amount of effort. To overcome the drawback a reuse drive software development approach is adopted. However there is a dire need for realizing effective software reuse. This paper prese...

This paper examines the relationship between the static coupling between objects (CBO) metric and some of its dynamic counterparts. The dimensions of the relationship for Java programs are investigated, and the influence of instruction coverage on this relationship is measured. An empirical evaluation of 14 Java programs taken from the SPEC JVM98 and the JOlden benchmark suites is conducted usi...

report issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on October 13, 2004 set in motion a national debate on the economic value of disease management (DM) programs and sent shock waves through the industry with the statement that “there was insufficient evidence to conclude that disease management programs can generally reduce overall health spending.”1 The Congressional Budget Office left lit...

We present stochastic consensus and convergence of the discrete consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithm with random batch interactions heterogeneous external noises. Despite wide applications successful performance in many practical simulations, CBO was not rigorously investigated such a generality. In this work, we introduce generalized weighted representative point interactions, show tha...

This paper utilizes the Colliding Bodies of Optimization (CBO), Enhanced Colliding Bodies of Optimization (ECBO) and Vibrating Particles System (VPS) algorithms to optimize the reservoir system operation. CBO is based on physics equations governing the one-dimensional collisions between bodies, with each agent solution being considered as an object or body with mass and ECBO utilizes memory to ...

The main object of this research is to optimize an end-filled castellated beam. In order to support high shear forces close to the connections, sometimes it becomes necessary to fill certain holes in web opening beam. This is done by inserting steel plates and welding from both sides. Optimization of these beams is carried out using three meta-heuristic methods involves CSS, CBO, and CBO-PSO al...