This paper analyses the performance of a genetic algorithm using a new concept, namely a fractional-order dynamic fitness function, for the synthesis of combinational logic circuits. The experiments reveal superior results in terms of speed and convergence to achieve a solution. Keywords— Circuit Design, Fractional-Order Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Logic Circuits.

High-risk outdoor recreation has been gaining interest around the world in the past years. While those activities allow their enthusiasts to reach unprecedented levels of adrenaline and adventure, they also contain risks and require specific training (in part technological). In particular, its participants must be ready to react efficiently during an emergency or in response to an accident. Tec...

With emphasizing the process of innovation, this paper classifies government intervention focused on innovation adoption into three dimensionalities: information support, financial support and personnel support. It also refines technological cognition into two aspects: perceived benefits including functional benefits and social benefits, and perceived costs including financial cost and risk. Th...

Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions – even those providing the ...

This paper examines the relationship between collaborative disaster mapping and conceptions of risk. It looks at improvised mapmaking during the 2007 wildfires in Southern California to identify and analyze social and technological issues in creating a shared understanding through collaboration. By comparing and contrasting two different, yet intertwined, mapping practices this paper focuses on...

nowadays clean energy and technological innovation in this field have becomevery important. dynamic innovation and technology development are done by the formation of technological innovation systems and factors influencing thefunctions of system play a key role in the emergence of such systems.considering the lack of previous researches in this area, this research seeks toanswer the question t...

adopting a policy and deciding on long-term investment in the mining industry by a government orprivate sector actors depends strongly on the ability to predict the scarcity of mineral reserves. changein scarcity of mineral reserves is a function of several technological and non-technological factors.among them, change in technology is the most significant factor affecting scarcity. this paper ...

This essay argues that the process of digitization has farreaching implications for the broadcasting field and claims that the most suitable theoretical framework to comprehend the full scope of these changes is provided by Ulrich Beck’s theories on risk society. Despite predictable developments, digitization increases the sources of uncertainties and the level of risks for the expanding number...