Robustness versus resilience of systems is first defined. The definition is applied to the material and cultural adaptive system of the Netsilik Inuit. Three structural conflicts ...
In this paper, we formalize and prove the statement that coincidences cannot be accidental, a statement that underlies many useful heuristics in mathematics and physics. Our proof...
In this paper, we present a new method to estimate null values in relational database systems based on genetic algorithms. It can tune the membership functions of the linguistic v...