[naeini1] one of the biggest organizational challenges in deployment of strategies is the time lag between the cause-and-effect relations according to a lag between indicators of strategic objectives. with adding the time factor, the strategic objectives at different times have a causal relationship with each other. the causal relationships between strategic objectives are essential. in this pa...

In this paper we present an Evolution Strategy (ES) approach towards the estimation of the location and strength of surface emissions of trace gases based on atmospheric concentration measurements and back-trajectory analyses. The details of the ES developed are outlined. The ES is tested using artificial emission maps at different grid 5 resolutions and the results compared to those obtained o...

In this paper I respond to a family of objections seeking to show that the phenomenal concept strategy must fail. Roughly, the strategy holds that antiphysicalist arguments, such as Kripke’s modal argument and Jackson’s knowledge argument, can be undercut by appealing to the unique features of phenomenal concepts. This idea is cashed out in various ways by different philosophers, but the thread...

Biological evolution gives rise to self-organizing phenomena. Inspired by this theory, directed variation is added to the ( , ) evolution strategies (ES) algorithm and it is called directed variation ES (DVES). In DVES, some neighboring individuals in the population mutate correlatively according to the distribution of the whole population. Experimental results showed that, with the same number...