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Managing hospitals in dynamic environments

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1997
Hospital environments have changed dramatically over the past two decades. Hospitals now have to contend with the dynamics of regulation, market forces, and quality and cost‐conscious environments. The strategies proposed here emulate the changes pursued by much of US industry. Provides a framework for analysing hospital environments.
Y H, Godiwalla, H C, Batra, J A, Johnson, S Y, Godiwalla   +3 more
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Neuroevolution in Dynamically Changing Environments

The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 2020
One goal of the Artificial Life field is to achieve a computational system with a complex richness similar to that of biological life.
Jory Schossau, Arend Hintze
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Degradation in Common Dynamic Environments

Technometrics, 2018
ABSTRACTDegradation studies are often used to assess reliability of products subject to degradation-induced soft failures. Because of limited test resources, several test subjects may have to share a test rig and have their degradation measured by the same operator. The common environments experienced by subjects in the same group introduce significant
Qingqing Zhai, Zhi-Sheng Ye 0001
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Dynamic Performance Tuning Environment

2001
Performance analysis and tuning of parallel/distributed applications are very difficult tasks for non-expert programmers. It is necessary to provide tools that automatically carry out these tasks. Many applications have a different behavior according to the input data set or even change their behavior dynamically during the execution.
Anna Morajko, Eduardo César, Tomàs Margalef, Joan Sorribes, Emilio Luque   +4 more
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Visualizing dynamic architectural environments

Communications of the ACM, 2004
How to expose the internal 3D structures of multiplayer games and architectural models by automatically generating interactive exploded views.
Mike Houston, Christopher Niederauer, Maneesh Agrawala, Greg Humphreys   +3 more
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Dynamics of populations in a changing environment

Physical Review E, 2002
We present an individual-based model of a population that lives in a changing environment. The individuals forming the population are subject to mutations and selection pressure. Using Monte Carlo simulations we have shown that, depending on the values of the mutation rate and selection, the population may reach either an active phase (it will survive)
Droz M, Pekalski A
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A navigation mesh for dynamic environments

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2012
ABSTRACTGames and simulations frequently model scenarios where obstacles move, appear, and disappear in an environment. A city environment changes as new buildings and roads are constructed, and routes can become partially blocked by small obstacles many times in a typical day.
Wouter van Toll, Atlas F. Cook IV, Roland Geraerts   +2 more
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Adaptive mutation in dynamic environments

2014 14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2014
The interest in nature inspired optimization in dynamic environments has been increasing constantly over the past years. This trend implies that many real world problems experience dynamic changes and it is important to develop an efficient algorithm capable of tackling these problems.
Chigozirim J. Uzor, Mario Gongora 0001, Simon Coupland, Benjamin N. Passow   +3 more
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Coordinating Agents in Dynamic Environment

2014
This paper presents strategies for speeding up the convergence of agents on swarm. Speeding up the learning of an agent is a complex task since the choice of inadequate updating techniques may cause delays in the learning process or even induce an unexpected acceleration that causes the agent to converge to a non-satisfactory policy.
Richardson Ribeiro, Adriano F. Ronszcka, Marco A. C. Barbosa, Fabrício Enembreck   +3 more
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Biophysical Dynamics in Disorderly Environments

Annual Review of Biophysics, 2012
Three areas where time-independent disorder plays a key role in biological dynamics far from equilibrium are reviewed. We first discuss the anomalous localization dynamics that arises when a single species spreads in space and time via diffusion and fluid advection in the presence of frozen heterogeneities in the growth rate.
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