educational centers are of those types of organizations to which almost everyone refer during the life to use the services. accordingly, the suitability of safety situation in these organizations is of high importance. the present study aims at investigation of effective factors on safety management in educational-training organizations of metropolises. this study is an applied descriptive rese...

The Darwinian concept of random variation and natural selection through differential survival provides a general model for the deterministic description of adaptive phenomena. Recently this model has seen increased application to the adaptive phenomena described by psychologists as problem solving or learning. It is the purpose of this paper to suggest the application of the model to a third le...

This paper argues that evolutionary robotics (ER) techniques can act as useful and potentially wide ranging tools in the scientific investigation of adaptive behaviour. After discussing the kinds of investigations ER can play a central role in, a concrete example is presented. We conclude that these kinds of studies are not only scientifically useful, but are necessary for the field to develop ...

Background and Objectives: Rheological characteristics of dough are important for achieving useful information about raw-material quality, dough behavior during mechanical handling, and textural characteristics of products. Our purpose in the present research is to apply soft computation tools for predicting the rheological properties of dough out of simple measurable factors. Materials and Me...

The dissemination of science is grounded on the reliability and value of the research literature that, through an editorial process, expresses the necessary detail to meet the reproducibility and refutably demands that underlie the scientific method. Three roles are defined in this editorial process that the researcher may assume at differing times or simultaneously, from the beginning of his c...

Model-free decentralized optimizations and learning are receiving increasing attention from theoretical and practical perspectives. In particular, two fully decentralized learning algorithms, namely Trial and Error (TEL) and Optimal Dynamical Learning (ODL), are very appealing for a broad class of games. In fact, ODL has the property to spend a high proportion of time in an optimum state that m...

Spark has been established as an attractive platform for big data analysis, since it manages to hide most of the complexities related to parallelism, fault tolerance and cluster setting from developers. However, this comes at the expense of having over 150 configurable parameters, the impact of which cannot be exhaustively examined due to the exponential amount of their combinations. The defaul...

considering the major change occurred in business cells from plant to “chain” and the critical need to choose the best partners to form the supply chain for competing in today’s business setting, one of the vital decisions made at the early steps of constructing a business is supplier selection. given the fact that the early decisions are inherently strategic and therefore hard and costly to ch...