Title: Ant colony optimization techniques for the vehicle routing problemAuthor: John E. Bell‚ Patrick R. McMullenYear: 2004 | Representation: finding the minimum distance or cost of the combined routes of a number of vehicles m that must service a number of customers n.Fitness Function: * Each customer is visited only once by a single vehicle. * Each vehicle must start and end its route at the depot‚ v0. * Total demand serviced by each vehicle cannot exceed Q.Performance:Ant colony optimization
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whether the 19th century debate over Crown Colony Government versus the Old Representative System as a mechanism of colonial rule in the 19th century British West Indies was and issue of democracy versus autocracy. I shall therefore distinguish between democracy and autocracy‚ and Old Representative System and the Crown Colony Government respectively. Moreover‚ I am going to prove from democratic standpoint that the Old representative system and the Crown Colony Government are different as it relates
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In the period of 1880 to 1914‚ positive and negative attitudes ascended throughout the acquisition of African colonies. Some thought that it would reinforce Europe’s economy and government‚ others supposed it would add pressures to Europe; it end up being a benefit to the economy‚ strengthen the nation and civilizing Africa. Motivations would be up brought upon the vague consideration about this dilemma. Some of the motivations were seen with positive attitudes about the acquisition with the
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The following show expected colony appearances and morphologies (shapes) of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Note characteristics such as edges‚ color‚ and whether the colonies are rough or smooth in texture. For colony appearances of E. coli and S. aureus‚ scientists often describe what they look like on agar. This is not the microscopic view (for example‚ as with a slide) but a “naked eye” view of how the bacterial colonies look while growing on a medium. (This is one type of culture
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During the sixteenth-century in the English Colonies‚ in this time there was a process where the people that owned some of these colonies were going through a time where immigrants were migrating to the new world. Forty-five thousand Puritans left England between 1620 and 1640 and created religious societies in another part of the world also known as the New World. The English people wanted their colonist to learn more about God and his most holy and wise providence‚ the people wanted to have religious
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eventually led to cultural differences in social interactions‚ education‚ and the settlement of different religious groups. The social interactions in the northern colonies differed greatly from those of the southern colonies. The northern colonies’ families‚ like in New England‚ centered around patriarchy and male predominance. The southern colonies had an unbalanced ratio of males to females with a male majority. This resulted in greater independence for females. Women had more power and played a more
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confessing all of your sins? In the Plymouth Colony‚ people did that. The Plymouth Colony was the most healthy and safe European Colony in North America. It was an English colony founded on the coast of Massachusetts. It was active from 1620 to 1691. The first residence of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth‚ a location earlier observed and named by John Smith. The settlement‚ which was the capital of the colony‚ is now a town in Massachusetts. The Plymouth colony was the friendliest to the Native Americans
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of Roanoke. Queen Elizabeth of England had sent us over here to start a colony in the new world. There were about one hundred and twenty people on board that tiny vessel consisting of men‚ women‚ and children. I am very happy to make it onto land after so long on the water in a crowded ship. The land is dense with forests‚ and the bodies of water that surround us are beautiful. John White has been named governor of our colony. Day 20 I have been inside the huts all day taking care of the children
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Chapter 13 Zinn opens chapter with the recognition that “war and jingoism might postpone‚ but could not fully suppress‚ the class anger that came from the realities of ordinary life”. Despite the brief interlude that momentarily quelled class conflict‚ the issues at home had never been resolved and resurfaced with a vengeance. More and more writers were writing from a Socialist mindset: Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906‚ as a commentary on Chicago’s meatpacking industry. In writing
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