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Ismayil YILMAZ 1, Ismail DEMIRYILMAZ 2, Mehmet I. TURAN 3*, Bahadır SULEYMAN 4, Isil S. TURAN 5, Durdu ALTUNER 4, Hamit H. ALP 6 & Halis SULEYMAN 4 1 Erzincan University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Erzincan, Turkey 2 Ibni Sina Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Kayseri, Turkey 3 Diyarbakir Research and Educational Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Diyarbakir, T...

The purpose of this paper is to show how the search algorithm known as particle swarm optimization performs. Here, particle swarm optimization is applied to structural design problems, but the method has a much wider range of possible applications. The paper's new contributions are improvements to the particle swarm optimization algorithm and conclusions and recommendations as to the utility of...

Constrained ordination methods include constrained (or canonical) correspondence analysis (CCA), redundancy analysis (RDA) and distancebased redundancy analysis (db-RDA). Constraining means that ordination only shows the community variation that can be explained by external environmental variables or constraints. This document describes the following basic concepts (1) usage of constrained ordi...

This paper presents a holonic co-ordination server which is made up of a recursive hierarchy of three different agent types: On the top stands an agent providing matchmaking services and representing the co-ordination server to the outside. It passes incoming requests to a subordinated agent type that is equipped with co-ordination mechanisms such as auctions, negotiations and coalition formati...