In our attempts to understand the evolution of biological, cognitive and cultural systems, critical questions arise concerning the origin of meaning. I argue that the key to success in attempts to create computational systems that exhibit the same capacities as their natural counterparts to evolve new and creative ways of interacting with their environment, beyond that which is simply “programm...

in this article, a finite horizon, multi product and multi period economic order quantity like seasonal items is considered where demand rate is deterministic and known but variable in each period. the order quantities of items come in batch sizes and the end of the period order quantity and, consequently, demand of customers are zero. in addition, storage space is constrained and the problem ...

This paper describes a novel multi-modal multi-user audio-visual interface – the Magic Music Desk (MMD) which employs the principles of embodied interaction, and emphasizes social interaction between users. This research is aimed for use in wearable and mobile sound and music systems. We combine multiple modalities for the interfaces including speech recognition, hand gesture recognition, sound...

this paper presents a cooperative control which is applied to the secondary control of a microgrid controlled via a multi-agent scheme. balancing power that leads to voltage and frequency stability in a microgrid is essential. the voltage and frequency regulations are limiting within the specified limits and conveying them to their nominal values. limiting and conveying the voltage and frequenc...

We present MVE, the Multi-View Environment. MVE is an end-to-end multi-view geometry reconstruction software which takes photos of a scene as input and produces a surface triangle mesh as result. The system covers a structure-from-motion algorithm, multi-view stereo reconstruction, generation of extremely dense point clouds, and reconstruction of surfaces from point clouds. In contrast to most ...

generally, alluvial basins of arid and semiarid zones are the places with excessive groundwater withdrawal, and also they have a high potential for land subsidence. excessive groundwater withdrawals have caused severe land subsidence in tehran, iran. at present, the maximum land subsidence rate is 36 cm/year, covering an area of nearly 530 km2. in the 2000s, as a result of economic and populati...

a three stage production system is considered in this paper. there are two stages to fabricate and ready the parts and an assembly stage to assembly the parts and complete the products in this system. suppose that a number of products of different kinds are ordered. each product is assembled with a set of several parts. at first the parts are produced in the first stage with parallel machines a...

Cultural algorithms (CAs) are one of the metaheuristics which can be adapted in order to work in multiobjective optimization environments. On the other hand, portfolio selection problem (PSP) is a wellknow problem in literature. However, only a few articles have applied evolutionary multi-objective (EMO) algorithms to these problems and articles presenting CAs applied to the PSP have not been f...