Vesicular stomatitis (VS) is an economically devastating disease of livestock in the Americas. Despite strong circumstantial evidence for the role of arthropods in epizootics, no hematophagous vector explains the field evidence. Based on the spatiotemporal association of grasshopper outbreaks and VS epizootics, we investigated the potential role of these insects as vectors and reservoirs of the...

Ontology alignment is an essential and complex task to integrate heterogeneous ontology. The meta-heuristic algorithm has proven be effective method for ontology alignment. However, it only applies the inherent advantages of meta-heuristics rarely considers execution efficiency, especially multi-objective model. performance such optimization models mostly depends on well-distributed fast-conver...

Scale is the fundamental conceptual problem in assessing the sustainability or value of controlling grasshoppers or locusts. Using case studies from North America (United States: Wyoming), Africa (Eritrea), and Asia (Russia: Irkutsk), we analyzed the viability of control programs. There are at least four dimensions to acridid pest management. At the geopolitical scale, all three cases reveal th...

An itinerary scripting language provides a tool to accelerate the development of mobile agent applications. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss research challenges of itinerant mobile agents (ITAG) and describe the migration of ITAG to JADE, the popular FIPA-compliant agent platform. The migration process was based on two major steps: the migration of agent communications and agent tas...

Persistent systems support a single storage abstraction in which all data may be created and manipulated in a uniform manner, regardless of its longevity. In such systems a protection mechanism is required to ensure that programs can access precisely those objects they are supposed to access and no others. In a monolingual system this protection can be provided by the type system of the program...