Multi-objective optimization problems are currently gaining significant attentions from researchers because many real-world optimization problems consist of contradictory objectives. SPEA (Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm) is one of the most successful multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for approximating the Pareto-optimal set for multiobjective optimization problems. In this paper, ...

Investment decision making is one of the key issues in financial management. Selecting the appropriate tools and techniques that can make optimal portfolio is one of the main objectives of the investment world. This study tries to optimize the decision making in stock selection or the optimization of the portfolio by means of the artificial colony of honey bee algorithm. To determine the effect...

BACKGROUND Sports mega-events have expanded in size, popularity and cost. Fuelled by media speculation and moral panics, myths proliferate about the increase in trafficking into forced prostitution as well as sex work in the run-up to such events. This qualitative enquiry explores the perceptions of male, female and transgender sex workers of the 2010 Soccer World Cup held in South Africa, and ...

This paper brieey deals with the Evolutionary Multi-Agent Robotic System and disccusses the robot soccer platform as its test bed. Though simulator based robot soccer systems and maze contests were in exsitence for a long time, the Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament (MiroSot) initiated in Korea is one of its rst kinds. The rst and second MiroSot competitions were held in Korea Advanced Ins...

BACKGROUND Acute coronary syndromes are the major cause of death in Brazil and in the world. External stimuli, known also as triggers, such as emotional state and activity, may generate physiopathological changes that can trigger acute coronary syndromes. Among the studied triggers, the impact of stressful events, such as soccer championships, are controversial in literature and there is no eff...