We define the linkage model evolvability and the evolvabilitybased fitness distance correlation. These measures give an insight in the search characteristics of linkage model building genetic algorithms. We apply them on the linkage tree genetic algorithm for deceptive trap functions and the nearest-neighbor NK-landscape problem. Comparisons are made between linkage trees, based on mutual infor...

Community welfare is one of the important points for a region and also essence national development. The people in Indonesia fairly unequal, especially East Java. To be able to map an area its Java, way that can used use clustering. hierarchical clustering method methods grouping data. In clustering, single linkage, complete average linkage are suitable data, which will compare best use. result...

e nergy consumption has increased significantly in iran during the recent decades. in this study, an inter-industrial model has been improved to investigate the sources of the changes in the energy consumption of the country. the input-output tables of iran for the years 1988 and 2001 have been employed as the database of the model. the innovation of this research allows the researchers to stud...

two breeds of chickens were used to develop reference family and detect qtls affecting egg quality traits: cocks of a native polish breed green-legged partidgenous (glp) and hens of rhode island red (rir). during the first 100 days of the laying period, the glp hens lay about 40 eggs weighting on average 50 g, whilst the rir flock laid 83 eggs with a mean weight of 60 g. qtl analysis of egg qua...

linkage studies and epidemiological findings indicate that some possible genes in schizophrenia (scz) and bipolar mood disorder (bpd) are common. numerous evidences for linkage of two diseases on chromosome 22 have been found. these findings suggest that one or more genes in the 22q11.21 region may be involved in the development of both disorders. in the present case-control study, association ...

This paper represents linkage network of queues consisting of biserial and parallel servers linked to a common server in series with a flowshop scheduling system consisting of two machines. The significant transportation time of the jobs from one machine to another is also considered. Further, the completion time of jobs/customers (waiting time + service time) in the queue network is the set...

BACKGROUND We assessed the linkage and correct linkage rate using deterministic record linkage among three commonly used Canadian databases, namely, the population registry, hospital discharge data and Vital Statistics registry. METHODS Three combinations of four personal identifiers (surname, first name, sex and date of birth) were used to determine the optimal combination. The correct linka...

Record linkage is an important technique in NASS for minimizing the presence of duplicate names on its list sampling frame of farm operators and agribusinesses. In the late 1970' s, NASS developed an automated record linkage system which runs on an IBM mainframe for this purpose. With changes in technology, the need has arisen for portability between platforms, integration with client/server te...

Linkage analyses of highly heritable electrophysiological phenotypes (EEG, ERP) that can potentially identify individuals at risk for alcoholism were performed on a large sample of families with a high density of alcohol dependence as part of the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA); these genetic findings are summarized. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) were identified for se...

This work compares two alternative methods for record linkage: distance based and probabilistic record linkage. It compares the performance of both approaches when data is categorical. To that end, a distance over ordinal and nominal scales is defined. The paper shows that, for categorical data, distance-based and probabilistic-based record linkage lead to similar results in relation to the num...