Some Problems in Genetic Engineering

Some Problems with Genetic Horoscopes

The Charms and Perils of Genetic Astrology The view that dominated biological thought in general, and evolutionary biology in particular, from the 1940s until the beginning of the 21 st century, was focused on the gene. Development was seen as the product of genes’ action, and ecology as the context for the natural selection of genes. This view was well reflected in textbooks of evolutionary bi...

On Some Epistemological Problems of Software Engineering

The paper addresses some misconceptions of Software Engineering, requirements analysis and modelling in particular, due to underlying epistemological flaws., e.g. the believe that the system analyst's task be simlar to that of a natural scientist's. The fundamental issues, constitution of objects and signs, conceptualization and definability, are discussed. It comes out that the paradoxical sit...

Function of Religious Capital in the Acceptance of Genetic Engineering

Religions and religious schools have always been one of the main and fundamental factors in the creation and development of civilizations or their destruction. With the establishment of a religious government in Iran; based on the values of the Islamic Revolution, more attention was paid for science and technology. Iran is now praised for its continued growth in scientific publications during t...

Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms with Application to Control Engineering Problems

BASIC - A genetic algorithm for engineering problems solution

This paper introduces in details a genetic algorithm-called BASIC, which is designed to take advantage of well known genetic schemes so as to be able to deal with numerous optimization problems. BASIC GA follows all common steps of the genetic algorithms. It involves real representation schemes for both real and integer variables. Three biased selection schemes for reproduction; four for recomb...