Dominance relations compare states to determine whether one is at least as good as another in terms of their goal distance. We generalize these qualitative yes/no relations to functions that measure by how much a state is better than another. This allows us to distinguish cases where the state is strictly closer to the goal. Moreover, we may obtain a bound on the difference in goal distance bet...

The aim of this paper is to study the concept of a “dominance rule” in the context of combinatorial optimization. A dominance rule is established in order to reduce the solution space of a problem by adding new constraints to it, either in a procedure that aims to reduce the domains of variables, or directly in building interesting solutions. Dominance rules have been extensively used over the ...

Dominance relationships are common among primates, and are usually the result of resource competition. Adult male chimpanzees have pronounced dominance relationships, and can be ranked relative to one another in dominance hierarchies. Adult male chimpanzees achieve, and maintain, high rank through a combination of physical size, strength and political ability. Dominance in male chimpanzees has ...

Dominance trees have been used as a means for reengineering legacy systems into potential reuse candidates. The dominance relation suggests the reuse candidates which are identified by strongly directly dominated subtrees. We review the approach and illustrate how the dominance tree may fail to show the relationship between the strongly directly dominated procedures and the directly dominated p...

The replication of the rDNA complement of only one nucleolus organizer region during polytene chromosome formation (replicative dominance) was initially observed in Drosophila melanogaster. Here we demonstrate replicative dominance in Drosophila simulans and D. melanogaster/D. simulans interspecific hybrids. A second nucleolar phenomenon, nucleolar dominance, is observed in the diploid tissue o...

the inheritance of cold resistance was evaluated at the germination stage in crosses between seven rice genotypes as half diallel. analysis of variance indicated that there were highly significant differences among the genotypes, general combining ability (gca) and specific combining ability (sca) for percentage of reduction in radicle length (rl), percentage of reduction in plumule length (pl)...