The structure of complex biological and socio-economic networks affects the selective pressures or behavioural incentives of components in that network, and reflexively, the evolution/behaviour of individuals in those networks changes the structure of such networks over time. Such ‘adaptive networks’ underlie how gene-regulation networks evolve, how ecological networks self-organise, and how ne...

Prolonged exposure to an oriented line shifts the perceived orientation of a subsequently observed line in the opposite direction, a phenomenon known as the tilt aftereffect (TAE). Here we consider whether the TAE for line stimuli is mediated by a mechanism that integrates the local parts of the line into a single global entity prior to the site of adaptation, or the result of the sum of local ...

Case-based regression often relies on simple case adaptation methods. This paper investigates new approaches to enriching the adaptation capabilities of case-based regression systems, based on the use of ensembles of adaptation rules generated from the case base. The paper explores both local and global methods for generating adaptation rules from the case base, and presents methods for ranking...

When adopting the mediator architecture to integrate distributed, autonomous, relational model based database sources, mappings from the source schema to the global schema may become inconsistent when the relational source schema or the global schema evolves. Without mapping adaptation, users may access no data or wrong data. In the paper, we propose a novel approach the global attribute as vie...

Mobile devices running soft real-time multimedia applications are becoming an increasingly important computing platform. Such systems are often limited by their battery life; therefore, minimizing their energy usage has become a primary design goal. A widely used technique to save energy is to adapt the system in response to changes in application demands and resource availability. Researchers ...

In response to agriculture's vulnerability and contribution to climate change, many governments are developing initiatives that promote the adoption of mitigation and adaptation practices among farmers. Since most climate policies affecting agriculture rely on voluntary efforts by individual farmers, success requires a sound understanding of the factors that motivate farmers to change practices...

Nowadays, technologies are providing the mobile terminals with the ability to access to information and multimedia services from almost anywhere at anytime. However, the challenge is that in mobile applications, the surrounding environments are continuously changing, e.g. services are entering and leaving, quality of communication channels are changing, battery is decreasing, etc. In order to o...