Robot-centric automation solutions (RAS) promise greater efficiency and consistent quality in production, relieving workers of physically demanding dangerous tasks, especially the times COVID-19. Nevertheless, due to their relatively high complexity implementation costs, RAS are only used a limited extent by small medium-sized manufacturing companies. As rule, costs arise from custom engineerin...

Holland's Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems largely dealt with how systems, comprised of many self-interested entities, can and should adapt as a whole. This seminal book led to the last 25 years of work in genetic algorithms (GAs) and related forms of evolutionary computation (EC). In recent years, the expansion of the Internet, other telecommunications technologies, and other large...

Critical success factor of e-commerce (EC) adoption is an important issue for developing countries. This research discusses the assessment indicators and impact factors for EC success. Combining literature review and expert investigation, four assessment indicators and ten impact factors are identified to be important for Chinese publishing companies. To test the relationship between the assess...

The importance of metric measures has been recognized in almost every scientific and engineering discipline, including software engineering where much progress in this application has been made. In this paper, metric measures are studied for their application to expert systems, for which little work has been done. The characteristics and organization of metric measures are discussed and present...

Esophageal cancer (EC) is the eighth most common cancer worldwide, with 482,000 new cases estimated in 2008, and the sixth most common cause of death from cancer with 407,000 deaths (Ferlay et al., 2010). In China, EC is the fourth most common cause of mortality and is frequently located in the thorax, while 95% of EC is pathologically diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma (Ferlay et al., 2010; ...

This study aims to determine the priority factors in development of plantation commodities, including cocoa, coffee, coconut, and oil palm as substitutes East Kolaka District-Southeast Sulawesi.The method used is analytic hierarchy process (AHP) expert choice software 11. The AHP includes: (a) developing a hierarchy; (b) determining priorities, (c) calculating consistency ratio (CR). test (CR) ...

The development of two probabilistic accident consequence codes sponsored by the European Commission and the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, COSYMA and MACCS respectively, was completed in 1990. These codes estimate the risks and other endpoints associated with accidents from hypothesised nuclear installations. In 1991, both commissions sponsored a joint project for an uncertainty ...

This paper deals with the need for generic software development tools in evolutionary computations (EC). These tools will be essential for the next generation of evolutionary algorithms where application designers and researchers will need to mix different combinations of traditional EC (e.g. genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary strategies, etc.), or to create new variations of...