Urban growth modelling cellular automata has blossomed due to the advancement in geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing and computer technology. Among such urban growth models, our urban growth model (UGM), was modified from SLEUTH (Slope Land-use Transport Hill-shade) model. UGM has been integrated in the XULU modeling frame-work (eXtendable Unified Land Use Modelling Platform). ...

This paper proposes a two-strategy reinforcement evolutionary algorithm using data-mining crossover strategy (TSR-EADCS) with a TSK-type fuzzy controller (TFC) for solving various control problems. The purpose of the R-EADCS is not only to improve the design of traditional reinforcement signal but also to determine the suitable rules in a TFC and the suitable groups that are selected to perform...

This work presents the use of local fuzzy prototypes as a new idea to obtain accurate local semantics-based Takagi–Sugeno–Kang ~TSK! rules. This allow us to start from prototypes considering the interaction between input and output variables and taking into account the fuzzy nature of the TSK rules. To do so, a two-stage evolutionary algorithm based on MOGUL ~a methodology to obtain Genetic Fuz...

The purification and molecular properties of lysine decarboxylase from Hafnia alvei and the preparation of polyvalent antibodies specific for this enzyme are described. The enzyme was purified within two HPLC steps on a TSK G 4000 SW and a MonoQ column to homogeneity. The subunit of the enzyme has a molecular weight of approximately 80.000 d. Under "native" condi­ tions it seems to form aggrega...

This book considers Jesuit architecture through the lens of ‘propaganda’ and vice versa. Fascinated by apparent connections between Nazi propaganda and Jesuit architecture, Levy asks whether we might usefully think of early modern Jesuit architecture in terms of propaganda. Conversely, she suggests that National Socialist architecture was indebted to the Baroque: ‘That Speer and Hitler self-con...