Ant Colony Optimization EDWIN WONG PHILLIP SUMMERS ROSALYN KU PATRICK XIE PIC 10C SPRING 2011 Swarm Intelligence Swarms Swarm of bees Ant colony as swarm of ants Flock of birds as swarm of birds Traffic as swarm of cars Immune system as swarm of cells and molecules ... Swarm Intelligence/Agent Based Modeling Model complex behavior using simple agents Swarm Intelligence Digital Crumbs a la Hansel and Gretel Idea: stigmergy is a mechanism of communication by modifying the environment
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Surprise: Andy Grammar Thinks Women are Objects “Honey I’m Good” is anything but that. In a country where the radio—as well as every other media outlet—is dominated by the misogynistic ideologies that go along with living in a patriarchal society‚ this song is just yet another in a long list about how women aren’t people‚ but objects created for the entertainment and pleasure of men. It wouldn’t be quite as terrible if the song had been a flop—except for that it’s the opposite of that—or if it wasn’t
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An Englishman establishe a post office in the small village of Ulapur.The postmaster who belonged to Calcutta took up his duty in this post office. Being separated from his family nd being from a big city‚ he felt like a big fish trapped in a pond.The village was remote nd thepostm‚aster hardly got any decent company .Also being from a city‚he found it difficult to be at ease with the village folks.He tried his hands at writing‚ but failed drastically .he being a lad from a concrete world
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She put him out like the burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin’ to forget We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind Until the night [1st Chorus] He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger And finally drank away her memory Life is short but this time it was bigger Than the strength he had to get up off his knees We found him with his face down in the pillow
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12/18/13 Monopoly - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Monopoly From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia A monopoly (from Greek monos μόνος (alone or single) + polein πωλεῖν (to sell)) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity (this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity’s control of a market to purchase a good or service‚ and with oligopoly which consists of a few entities dominating an industry).[2] Monopolies are thus
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adidas AG is a German multinational corporation that designs and manufactures sports clothing and accessories based in Herzogenaurach‚ Bavaria‚ Germany. footwear‚ Adidas also produces other products such as bags‚ shirts‚ watches‚ eyewear‚ and other sports- and Adidas is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Germany and Europe and the second biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world. Adidas was founded in 1948 by Adolf Dassler‚ following the split of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik between him and
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mellifera‚ better known as the Africanized Honey Bee‚ has caused many environmental and health problems in all the nations that it has invaded. They are “commonly found in hollow trees‚ rotting logs and wood and rock piles” (A). Africanized honeybees are very aggressive and have been known to sting intruders up to 50 feet away from their hive and continue to chase the intruder for up to a mile. Most bees only attack with 10-20 bees but Africanized Honey Bees swarm with hundreds of bees. Their aggressiveness
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Fibonacci’s Rabbits The original problem that Fibonacci investigated (in the year 1202) was about how fast rabbits could breed in ideal circumstances. Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits‚ one male‚ one female‚ are put in a field. Rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits. Suppose that our rabbits never dieand that the female always produces one new pair (one male‚ one female) every month from the second
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1. What insects did you catch? Summarize their role in the environment and/or interesting information about the order or species and its signifigance to humans. A. Butterfly-their role in the environment helps with flowers pollunating‚ and providing a source of fod for certain animals. If butterflies are missing from an environment you’ll be able to tell. Butterflies help us by contolling the pest and pollunating. B. Lacewing-their role in the environment is removing aphids from the environment.
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Like any 90s kid‚ I played Sonic the Hedgehog religiously. He was uncannily fast‚ curled into a cool ball and tried his best to survive all of the obstacles in the game. Sadly‚ hedgehogs http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-hedgehog-video.html in the U.K. don’t have Sonic’s super powers‚ and they have 2 major obstacles. What sounds like a video game quest is real life: Hedgehogs in the U.K. could go extinct in 10 short years‚ unless Brits do something now. What’s Hurting Hedgehogs
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