News tagged with genetic algorithm


Purdue-developed tool can get most pollution control for the money

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There may be thousands of things large and small that can be done to better control pollution on even the smallest waterways, and a new tool developed at Purdue University may help sort out how to choose the best ones.





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Could a mathematical model predict the demise of a business?

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Many gamblers claim to have a "system", whether they're shooting craps, backing horses, or punting on the stock market. Now, researchers in Taiwan have devised an approach to spotting when a company is likely to fail based ...


Solving big problems

Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (32) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...


Technique traces origins of disease genes in mixed human populations

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa has developed a technique to detect the ancestry of disease genes in hybrid, or mixed, human populations.


Digital communication technology helps clear path to personalized therapies

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created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have shown that search algorithms used in digital communications can help scientists identify effective multi-drug combinations. The study, led by Giovanni ...


Quantum computing may actually be useful, after all

Quantum computing may actually be useful, after all

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (35) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, quantum computers have lost some of their luster. In the 1990s, it seemed that they might be able to solve a class of difficult but common problems — the so-called NP-complete ...


Simulator allows scientists to predict evolution’s next best move

Biology /

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists today are doing what Darwin thought impossible. They are studying the process of evolution not through fossils but directly, as it is happening. Now, by modeling the steps evolution takes to build, ...


Computer program traces ancestry using anonymous DNA samples

Computer program traces ancestry using anonymous DNA samples

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 21, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and biologists from around the world have developed a computer algorithm that can help trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes, without ...


Police sketch artist evolves: Computer program uses interactive genetic algorithm to help witnesses remember criminals

Technology / Software

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Criminals are having a harder time hiding their faces, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate and recognize suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics.


Data-handling technique finds genes to be team players in curbing brain cancer cell growth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The search for cancer genes is increasingly a matter of molecular “To Tell the Truth,” as scientists seek to distinguish genes actually involved in the disease from those that are imposters. Powerful gene-scanning technology ...


Gene data tool advances prospects for personalized medicine

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A sophisticated computational algorithm, applied to a large set of gene markers, has achieved greater accuracy than conventional methods in assessing individual risk for type 1 diabetes.



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