What is Soft Computing ? (adapted from L.A. Zadeh) Lecture 1 What is soft computing Techniques used in soft computing • Soft computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that‚ unlike hard computing‚ it is tolerant of imprecision‚ uncertainty‚ partial truth‚ and approximation. In effect‚ the role model for soft computing is the human mind. 1 2 What is Hard Computing? • Hard computing‚ i.e.‚ conventional computing‚ requires a precisely stated analytical model and often a lot of
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high-energy drinks targeted at the youth market. Over the past 10 years‚ the consumption of caffeinated beverages intended to “energise” has increased significantly. Energy drinks were recently shown to comprise 20% of the total convenience store beverage market‚ with “Red Bull” and “V” accounting for over 97% of sales in this multimillion-dollar industry.1 Increasingly‚ toxicity from caffeine overdose is being reported to hospitals and poisons centres. The main active constituents of energy drinks include
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This essay is to examine both the pros and cons of legalizing “soft drugs”. Hard and Soft drugs are terms to distinguish between psychoactive drugs that are addictive and perceived as especially damaging and drugs that are believed to be non-addictive (or minimally addictive) and with less dangers associated with its use. The term "soft drug" implies that the drug causes no or insignificant harm one such drug is cannabis (marijuana).Cannabis is a psychotic drug. The main psychoactive ingredient
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I. INTRODUCTION Technology today has indeed made people’s lives convenient especial with a computer. It has helped students in making homework‚ research‚ and projects‚ it has helped business in advertising and in making progress‚ and it has connect loved ones to people who live in a different country with the help of the internet. Psychologists are not even sure yet what to call this phenomenon. Some label it an "Internet Addiction Disorder." But many people are addicted to their computers long
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Running head: Project Management Methodologies Project Management Methodologies Gary D. Rice Webster University Abstract In Business‚ project management is used regularly to accomplish unique outcomes with limited resources under critical time constraints. There has been a rapid increase in the number of firms that use project management methodologies as the preferred way of accomplishing almost every business undertaking. There are a number of approaches to managing project activities
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be investigating the sports drinks market in the UK‚ focusing on the overall market and launching a new product. The UK sports drinks market is estimated at £1.2 billion in 2012 with a growth in sales of more than 60% by 2012 (Mintel‚ 2012) showing what a rapidly growing market this is. I will examine how a leading drinks manufacture can expand into this market and launch a new sports drink using Usain Bolt in promotion. THE MARKET The market share for sports drinks grew by 10.7% last year with
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What is the difference between hard and soft Human Resource Management? Improve HRM is an essential and vital function for organizational success. Areas within HRM like Manpower planning‚ Job analysis‚ Selection and Recruitment‚ Compensation and Benefits‚ Performance evaluations‚ Contract negotiations and Labor legislations are parts of hard HRM whereas functions like Organizational development‚ conflict management‚ human resource education‚ leadership development‚ organizational culture
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|ABDULLATIF AL ALSHAIKH | |DEVANG BHAVSAR | ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to illustrate and investigate the supplier evaluation process by a multiple case study methodology for the organisation‚ Company to select the impeccable ERP vendor. Tangible and intangible benefits of selected enterprise resource planning packages and in particular managerial‚ strategic‚ information technology and organisational benefits of
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explained further below: • “Hard” HR • “Soft” HR However‚ it is important to remember that‚ in reality‚ these two approaches are somewhat academic in nature. In real businesses‚ an HR department or manager would be likely to adopt elements of both soft and hard HR‚ and in many cases would not be interested in the slightest in the distinction! The key features of the hard and soft approach to HR can be summarised as follows: Hard HR Management Soft HR Management Treats employees simply as a
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understand issue of XP (Extreme Programming) as a methodology is important to mention some of it´s background. XP came to the picture in 1999 in Kent Beck´s book named Extreme Programming Explained. The book was originally aimed to programmers but the Extreme methodology reached others areas as well. XP as a methodology in the early 2000 gained a lot of followers as a new outlook of doing programming and systems design. But this new methodology also arose questions about its effectiveness and originality
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