Nodes in a distributed sensor network (DSN) gather and fuse information generated by heterogeneous sources to arrive at local decisions targeted at achieving a given global mission objective. These sources typically possess very diverse scopes of ‘expertise’ or frames of discernment (FoDs) that renders updating a knowledge base from the evidence received a challenging task. In this paper, we pr...

This paper proposes a modified form of operator based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for designing Genetic Fuzzy Rule Based System (GFRBS). The usual procedure of velocity updating in PSO is modified by calculating the velocity using chromosome’s individual best value and global best value based on an updating probability without considering the inertia weight, old velocity and constricti...

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of purchasing power parity (PPP) price indexes from the International Comparison Project. Global inequality increased with the latest revision of the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line relative to the US dollar. The recent large increase of nearly half a billion poor people came from an i...