The development of systems with the ability to reason about change notion and actions has been of great importance for the artificial intelligence community. The definition and implementation of systems capable of managing defeasible, incomplete, unreliable, or uncertain information has…

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In this paper, we present a novel model of an artificial immune system (AIS), based on the process that suffers the T-Cell. The proposed model is used for solving constrained (numerical) optimization problems. The model operates on three populations: Virgins,…

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of the remaining 263 species, we arrived at a specieslevel identification for 242, and identified the remainder to genus (19) or family (2). The recent discovery of these ornithological texts and paintings offers a unique view of the history of…

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El rendimiento académico estudiantil ha sido definido como el cumplimiento de las metas, logros u objetivos establecidos en el programa o asignatura que está cursando el alumno.
Se puede analizar el rendimiento académico como una medida de las capacidades del…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…

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l’ensemble des notions composant un domaine. Nous proposons d’extraire des domaines
de spécialité des noyaux conceptuels constitués, par exemple, des principes sur lesquels
se fonde une discipline ou…

While entertainment web forums provide a dynamic medium for interaction, not many researchers feel the need to go deeply into the contents.
One of the reasons behind this attitude lies on a widely perceived assumption that web forums do not…