This paper presents a new multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for Environmental/Economic power Dispatch (EED) problem. The EED problem is formulated as a nonlinear constrained multiobjective optimization problem. A new Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA) based approach is proposed to handle the problem as a true multiobjective problem with competing and non-commensurable objectives....

I argue for a pattern theory of self as a useful way to organize an interdisciplinary approach to discussions of what constitutes a self. According to the pattern theory, a self is constituted by a number of characteristic features or aspects that may include minimal embodied, minimal experiential, affective, intersubjective, psychological/cognitive, narrative, extended, and situated aspects. A...

In practical system identification it is often desirable to introduce additional objectives and constraints into the identification problem. In some cases, these objectives and constraints are often non-commensurable and the objective functions are explicitly/mathematically not available. In this paper, Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) is used to effectively handle these identificatio...

Patient and citizen participation is now regarded as central to the promotion of sustainable health and health care. Involvement efforts create and encounter many diverse ethical challenges that have the potential to enhance or undermine their success. This article examines different expressions of patient and citizen participation and the support health ethics offers. It is contended that desp...

The problem of Bloch electrons in two dimensions subject to magnetic and intense electric fields is investigated. Magnetic translations, electric evolution and energy translation operators are used to specify the solutions of the Schrödinger equation. For rational values of the magnetic flux quanta per unit cell and commensurate orientations of the electric field relative to the original lattic...

Abstract In this paper, I revisit a debate between Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Barth, known as the ‘Barth–Feuerbach confrontation’. begin by framing contours of dispute it was initiated Barth carried forward his interpreters, who have sought in vain to make Barth's Feuerbach's positions commensurable. Having narrated history ongoing scholarly discussion clarified why remains intractable, turn Die...

A subgroup $H\leq G$ is said to be almost normal if every conjugate of $H$ commensurable $H$. If normal, there a well-defined quotient space $G/H$. We show that group $G$ has type $F_{n+1}$ and contains an coarse $PD_n$ with $e(G/H)=\infty$, then whenever $G'$ quasi-isometric $G$, it $H'$ Moreover, the spaces $G/H$ $G'/H'$ are quasi-isometric. This generalises theorem Mosher-Sageev-Whyte, who p...

In practical system identification, process optimization and controller design, it is often desirable to simultaneously handle several objectives and constraints. In some cases, these objectives and constraints are non-commensurable and they are not explicitly/mathematically available. This paper proposes a new subjective optimization method based on interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) t...

We study iterated function systems (IFSs) of contractive similitudes on Rd with overlaps. We introduce a generalized finite type condition which extends a more restrictive condition in [S.-M. Ngai, Y. Wang, Hausdorff dimension of self-similar sets with overlaps, J. London Math. Soc. (2) 63 (3) (2001) 655–672] and allows us to include some IFSs of contractive similitudes whose contraction ratios...

Conjecture 1.1 is out of reach for nonarithmetic lattices in O.n; 1/ and SU.n; 1/, since we do not understand the structure of such lattices. However, all known constructions of nonarithmetic lattices lead to noncoherent groups: See the author, Potyagailo and Vinberg [28] for the case of Gromov–Piatetsky–Shapiro construction; the same argument proves noncoherence of nonarithmetic reflection lat...