GA genetic algorithm HGA hybrid genetic algorithm SA simulated annealing algorithm ACO ant colony optimization TS tabu search IA immune algorithm GDA great deluge algorithm CEA cellular evolutionary approach NN neural network NFT near feasible threshold UGF universal generating function MSS multi-state system RB/i/j recovery block architecture that can tolerate i hardware and j software faults ...

the islamic sharia as a full legal value system with sustainable resources (qur’an and the tradition) as well as benefiting from wisdom as inner messenger is the most adaptable value system with changes of the world. the logic used in qur’an and the tradition is a multi-valued and continuous logic. in this value system, religious statements have been expressed in continuous and graded linguisti...

The research analyzed the land tenure system among rice farmers in Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Two hundred and forty (240) farmers were sampled by a multi stage sampling procedure and used as respondents for the study. Well-structured questionnaires were used for data collection. The main means of data analysis were percentages and correlation. Findings revealed that 4...

background and aims. this study aimed to investigate release of nickel ion from three types of nickel-titanium-based wires in the as-received state and after immersion in a simulated oral environment. materials and methods. forty specimens from each of the single-strand niti (rematitan “lite”), multi-strand niti (speed supercable) and copper niti (damon copper niti) were selected. twenty specim...

in this paper smart operation of micro energy hub is presented. energy hub system consists of certain energy hubs and interconnectors that are coordinated by energy hub system operator. an energy hub contains several converters and storages to serve demanded services in most efficient manner from available energy carriers. in this paper, the flexibility of energy delivery point is enhanced u...

Minimal Cut Vectors (MCVs) and Minimal Path Vectors (MPVs) are one of the principal tools of reliability engineering. MCVs represent situations in which repair/improvement of any system component results in functioning/ improvement of the system. MPVs coincide with circumstances under which failure/degradation of any system component causes system failure/degradation. MCVs and MPVs allow us to ...

The paper addresses the problem of information fusion in Multi-Agent System. Since the knowledge of the process state is distributed between agents, the efficiency of the task performance depends on a proper information fusion technique applied to the agents. In this paper we study the case in which each agent has its own sensing device and is able to collect information with some certainty. Si...

Knowledge based programs have been proposed as an abstract formalism for the design of multi-agent protocols, based on the idea that an agent's actions are a function of its state of knowledge. The key questions in this approach concern the relationship between knowledge based programs and their concrete implementations. We present a variant of the framework of Fagin et al. that facilitates the...