of experiments to determine the location of the crossover point --- the point at which half the randomly generated propositional theories with a given number of variables and given number of clauses are satisfiable --- and to assess the relationship of the crossover point to the difficulty of determining

extensive set of experiments to date on the location and nature of the cross-over point in satisfiability problems. These experiments generally confirm previous results with two notable exceptions. First, we have found that neither of the functions previously proposed accurately models the location

if the final average fitness value is more than the initial average fitness value after crossover and mutation. This proposed paper deals with varying crossover points and observing its effect on SGA. Basically, the crossover point is varied from 1 to n (where n<=2) and observe its effect on both initial

Abstract: This paper introduces a new designing methodology for Tightened Normal-Tightened (TNT) sampling schemes, indexed by an entry parameter called the crossover point (COP). The significance of the COP and the properties of the Operating Character-istic (OC) with respect to it are studied

A menu of paired lottery choices is structured so that the crossover point to the high-risk lottery can be used to infer the degree of risk aversion. With "normal " laboratory payoffs of several dollars, most subjects are risk averse and few are risk loving. Scaling up all payoffs

of heartbeats associated with periodic breathing by using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). We analyzed heartbeats in eight recordings from the MIT-BIH Polysomno-graphic database. We observed two crossover points and defined three scaling exponents, β1 (n ≤ 40 beats), β2 (50 ≤ n ≤ 200), and β3 (251 ≤ n

the crossover points and segments. It represents the vessels in a binary tree and searches for an optimal forest. Thus simultaneous identification of vessels gives good diagnosis. Proposed work includes cup and OD segmentation for glaucoma assessment which prevents from visual loss with earlier treatment.

is near the crossover point (/3""2) for 6 and I. The application of a similar parametrization of the partition function to continuous groups, UO) and 5 U ( 2), results in (3c " " 0.92 and 1.9, respectively. The latter value is very close to the crossover point ((3""2

). All four of these att sites are genetically distinguishable from one another; however, the crossover occurs within (or at the bound-aries of) a 15-bp "core region " that is common to all of them (Landy and Ross 1977). The crossover does not involve any degradation and resynthesis

Abstract. Companies, industries, and nations often consume resources supplied by unstable producers. Perturbations that affect the supplier propagate downstream to create volatility in resource prices. Consumers can invest to reduce this insecurity in two ways; invest in and impose security on the suppliers, or can invest in self-sufficiency so that shocks no longer present devastating consequences. We use an agent-based model of a complex adaptive system to examine this tradeoff between projecting security and investing in self-sufficiency. This study finds that the significance of tradeoffs correlates with the dependence of the consumer on the supplier.