Buscar recursos académicos

Given the increased use of qualitative and mixed methods, and the continued use of quantitative methods, Creswell's third edition of Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches is most timely...

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are often well-suited for optimization problems involving several, often conflicting objectives. Since 1985, various evolutionary approaches to multiobjective optimization have been develope...

The approach described in this paper represents a substantive departure from the conventional quantitative techniques of system analysis. It has three main distinguishing features: 1) use of so-called ``linguistic'' vari...

Individuals die, populations disappear, and species become extinct. That is one view of the world. But another view of the world concentrates not so much on presence or absence as upon the numbers of organisms and the de...