Automatic methods for designing artificial neural nets are desired to avoid the laborious and erratically human expert’s job. Evolutionary computation has been used as a search technique to find appropriate NN architectures. Direct and indirect encoding methods are used to codify the net architecture into the chromosome. A reformulation of an indirect encoding method, based on two bi-dimensiona...

Stem/progenitor cell based therapeutic approach in our daily routine clinical practice, has been elusive dream in medical sciences and improvement of stem cell homing as one of major challenges in cell therapy programs, has been considered a promising milestone. It has been proved that stem/progenitor cells exhibit a homing response to injured tissues/organs, mediated by interactions of chemoki...

The research described in this paper is a direct extension of Baldwin et al. (1997), which proposed a declarative rule-based system to analyse gapping in simple Japanese relative clauses. Two shortcomings of this original framework are its inability to handle complex relative clauses, and its non-deterministic nature in choosing between multiple parses for the main verb of the relative clause. ...

Evolutionary Robotics is a research field focused on autonomous design of robots based on evolutionary algorithms. In this field, neuroevolution methods aim in particular at designing both structure and parameters of neural networks that make a robot exhibit a desired behavior. While such methods have shown their efficiency to generate reactive behaviors, they hardly scale to more cognitive beh...

In this paper a new patch-based digital signature (DS) is proposed. The proposed approach similar to steganography methods hides the secure message in a host image. However, it uses a patch-based key to encode/decode the data like cryptography approaches. Both the host image and key patches are randomly initialized. The proposed approach consists of encoding and decoding algorithms. The encodin...

Introduction Echo-planar imaging (EPI) is a group of fast data acquisition methods commonly used in fMRI studies. It acquires multiple image lines in k-space after a single excitation, which leads to a very short scan time. A well-known problem with EPI is that it is more sensitive to distortions due to the used encoding scheme. Source of distortion is inhomogeneity in the static B0 field that ...

dustry Day, which provided real-world experiences utilizing CBR in fielded applications. The second day featured four workshops on various CBR related topics: health sciences, textual case-based reasoning, computer gaming and simulation environments, and similarities—processes—workflows. Days 3 and 4 comprised presentations and posters on theoretical and applied CBR research, as well as invited...