The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services to both rural and urban people. Obviously, access and application of ICT will provide services to improve the income and welfare of rural poor. This will help reducing rural poverty and improve quality of life. In Iran, importance of using rural ICT benefits and advantage...

We present SPOT, an open-source toolbox for the experimental analysis of optimization algorithms. Evolution strategies (ES) have been severely criticized before they started their triumphal procession as optimization algorithms. Schwefel discussed ideas which appeared to be provocative at the first sight. SPOT provides a modern framework to test these ideas. The extreme programming methodology ...

This paper reports on empirical research concerning the early stages of syntactic development in first language acquisition, and investigates the prospects of modelling the acquisition process in an exemplar-based linguistic framework (DataOriented Parsing). We present a detailed analysis of the early stages of verbal placements in Dutch. Our analysis shows that the child invents a sequence of ...

This research presents a re engineering workbench and ar chitecture that allows for legacy systems written in proce dural languages to be migrated to new object oriented plat forms This methodology allows for speci c design and qual ity requirements of the target migrant system to be consid ered during the re engineering process through an iterative and incremental process The migration process...

A high-level motion control system for the animation of human-like gures is introduced which generates a wide variety of individual running styles in real time. Sequences such as a leisurely jog, a fast sprint or a bouncy run are conveniently obtained by interactively setting the values of \running" parameters such as desired velocity, step length, \ ight" height or \heel/toe" strike while obse...

he need to counter and defeat a new generation of asymmetric, agile threats has necessitated a transformation of today’s U.S. military forces. The inherent complexity associated with emerging system-of-systems operational strategies introduces many new challenges for the DoD acquisition community. Modeling and simulation (M&S) shows great promise as a tool for meeting these challenges; however,...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains two publication series for research on food security and agricultural policy issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to...