In the present study, the computational performance of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) harmony search (HS) and firefly algorithm (FA), as popular metaheuristics, is investigated for size and shape optimization of truss structures. The PSO was inspired by the social behavior of organisms such as bird flocking. The HS imitates the musical performance process which takes place when a musicia...

Previous research has suggested that Asian Americans (AAs) are less likely to mobilize social support, and find support to be less helpful, when compared with European Americans (EAs). In a 10-day daily diary study of AA and EA college students, we hypothesized that AAs would activate support less frequently than EAs for both stressful and positive events, a cultural difference that would be me...

Harmony search algorithm is a meta-heuristic optimization method imitating the music improvisation process, where musicians improvise their instruments’ pitches searching for a perfect state of harmony. To solve continuous optimization problems more efficiently, this paper presents an improved harmony search algorithm using the swarm intelligence technique. Applying the proposed algorithm to se...

The article reveals Kazakhstan's model of implementation the ideas national sovereignty in context interethnic harmony, internal unity and modernization society Constitution. Comparative legal analysis scientific conclusions related to principles idea popular is carried out. importance strengthening state power social harmony creation a governed by rule law emphasized, logical thoughts are summ...

Fundamental significance of the principle of public hearing lies in the fact that it provides a platform for social supervision, which is more propitious to judicial fairness. As a supervision entity with authoritative social functions, modern media brings harmony and conflicts together in the process of application of jurisdiction in different fields of media, but they haven’t got integrated s...

This article provides an overview on a series of original studies conducted by the author. The aim here is to present the ideas that the author reconstructed, based on the dialectics of harmonization, regarding harmony and conflict embodied in traditional Chinese thought, and to describe how a formal psychological theory/model on interpersonal harmony and conflict was developed based on the Yin...

For the past 40 years, social psychological research on stereotyping and prejudice in the United States has been dominated by the social cognition perspective, which has emphasized the important role of basic categorization processes in intergroup dynamics. An inadvertent consequence of this approach has been a disproportionate focus on social categorization as a causal factor in intergroup ani...

1Despite the social emphasis in Multi-Agent Based Systems research, individual agent control systems (ACS) can not be discarded. The individual capacity for effective action selection and enforcement require agents with harmonised real-time and long-term capabilities. Neither the reactive nor deliberative paradigms seem to provide this harmony. We are proposing an ACS schema where longterm cond...