Where results make sense

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us

Adaptive System An adaptive system is a physical system that is capable of self-adapting in response to changing environments. An adaptive system, on the other hand, will be equipped to self-modify into different system-states in order to navigate, function and succeed within different environments. Adaptive systems are designed to engage and respond to their environments. www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/Adaptive_System   (224 words)

The Heart as a Complex Adaptive System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Systems of this type are governed by universal principles of adaptation and self-organization, in which control and order is emergent rather than predetermined and have come to be known as complex adaptive systems (CAS). Chaotic systems are very susceptible to changes in initial conditions, i.e., small changes in a parameter of chaotic system can produce very large changes in the output, i.e., poised at the "edge of chaos" [21, 22]. The heart is an organ endowed with an adaptive plasticity (genotypic/phenotypic memory) and capacity to assimilate ("fitness capacity") within the host and in the process modify the environment determining the fate of the body system as whole. www.pages.drexel.edu /~jk45/Heart_CAS/heart_co.htm   (4471 words)

[No title] The first challenge is to define what a system is. A system is an assembly of elements hooked together to produce a whole in which the attributes of the elements contribute to a behavior of the whole. One of the simplest adaptive systems is a flock of birds. To review, adaptive systems are constituted of agents that are connected to their neighbors and have a degree of freedom in responding to changes, but must respond within simple rules. www.beyondintractability.org /m/complex_adaptive_systems.jsp   (2325 words)

Adaptive Optics with Gemini   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Adaptive Optics simply takes a sample of starlight, determines how the atmosphere bent it, and then uses a deformable mirror to "straighten" the starlight out again. AO systems work best with longer wavelength light, which means that Gemini will see the most dramatic results with infrared observations. Using this system, it is expected that Gemini will produce the sharpest images yet of the infrared sky and dramatically improve many other types of observations as well. www.us-gemini.noao.edu /public/adaptive.html   (548 words)

ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA AND HYPERTEXT Adaptive hypermedia systems are presently being designed and developed in recognition of the need to provide some system support and control to users. An adaptive system might provide a different body of information, or a different level of abstraction or treatment based on characteristics such as user's age, language, geographical location or on whether the user is a novice or expert. The system consists of both a domain model and a user model which is based on an estimation of the user's knowledge level. www.cdli.ca /~elmurphy/emurphy/adaptive.html   (1070 words)

NASA's Solar System Exploration: News & Events: 11.05.04: Laser Focus Adaptive optics allows astronomers to correct for the fuzzy images produced by earth's moving atmosphere, giving them a view that often surpasses those of smaller telescopes based in space. The adaptive-optics system uses the star as a source by which astronomers monitor and correct for the distortions produced by earth's atmosphere. The Palomar adaptive optics instrument was built and continues to be supported by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of a Caltech-JPL collaboration. solarsystem.nasa.gov /news/display.cfm?News_ID=10055   (733 words)

Adaptivity Signal Service :: Fully adaptive trading system   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Adaptivity was the first trading system by percent returns and second by dollar returns in the long term trading system category for 2004 at TradeCenterInc. The system uses end of day data and enters and exits the market on stops which have to be placed before market open. System signals for the next trading day are transmitted by e-mail every night between 00:00 am and 03:00 am EST and can currently be subscribed to at Collective2, an independent real-time system monitoring website. www.adaptivitysystem.com   (440 words)

An Adaptive Hypermedia System for Improving an Organization Customer Support Using the paradigm of adaptive hypermedia along with usability design techniques, an we developed an adaptive hypermedia system was developed that automated the customer support tasks of an organization charged with the maintenance and upkeep of a large governmental building. From a research and implementation perspective, a significant contribution of the system is the implementation of adaptive hypermedia in a commercial environment. The adaptive hypermedia system, both currently and with further planned enhancements, is proof that technologies and methods that were only research domains a short time ago, can be implemented and profitably employed in support of an organization’s customer support goal. ist.psu.edu /faculty_pages/jjansen/academic/pubs/ahms/ahms.html   (3962 words)

What are Complex Adaptive Systems? A period of flux occurs in all the populations in the system until a new balance is established. A classic example is that all the water systems in the world, all the streams, rivers, lakes, oceans, waterfalls etc with their infinite beauty, power and variety are governed by the simple principle that water finds its own level. Most things we take for granted are complex adaptive systems, and the agents in every system exist and behave in total ignorance of the concept but that does not impede their contribution to the system. www.trojanmice.com /articles/complexadaptivesystems.htm   (1283 words)

Company History Adaptive Micro-Ware, Inc. is an electronic design firm, organized as a privately held C corporation, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and led by President and founder Robert J. Kniskern. Adaptive followed up those successes with embedded microprocessor designs for a number of different industries, one example being embedded controllers for point of sale terminals and fuel dispensers installed in refueling stations throughout the world by two international fuel pump manufacturers. Adaptive's work resulted in deployment of their 80 channel DBS studio which was operated in beta test 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for several months, transferring up to 1 Gigabyte of digital video data per channel per hour. www.adaptivemicro.com /about/history.htm   (1154 words)

The Adaptive Object-Model Architectural Style Many architects who have designed a system with Adaptive Object-Models claim that it is the best system they have ever created, and they brag about its flexibility, power, and eloquence. It is a “convergent billing” system that makes it possible for a single billing system to handle any kind of telecommunications service. The purpose of the Objectiva architecture is to organize the parts of the system as effectively as possible in order to maximize their reuse. www.adaptiveobjectmodel.com /WICSA3/ArchitectureOfAOMsWICSA3.htm   (4731 words)

C5: Landscape data and complex adaptive system Earth: holism in complexity and network science An autonomous system, as proposed in Varela's interpretation of Gaia, with operational closure, that is a fully self-referential network that specifies its own identity and also specifies its response to emergent factors and events. As biologists such as Kauffman, who interprets the evolutionary process in terms of self-organizing systems, began to use complexity theory, there was a reaction from the neo-Darwinians such as Dawkins, who extends the theory of evolution to the level of genes. The genome, Kauffman contends, is a complex adaptive system composed of "networks of genes and their products interacting with one another in enormous webs of regulatory circuitry."(6) Complex systems being adaptive, their evolution tends to be coevolution. www.c5corp.com /research/complexsystem.shtml   (2144 words)

NSO Solar Adaptive Optics Project Adaptive optics and a new infrared camera have provided the first infrared images of a white-light flare below the Sun's visible surface. The current High-Order Adaptive Optics (AO) development project is a partnership between NSO and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, supported by the NSF's Major Research Instrumentation division. The Low-Order AO system is an operational system currently in place on the Dunn Solar Telescope (DST). nsosp.nso.edu /ao   (657 words)

Adaptive System This adapter system is variable in size between the hub of the car and the wheel. This system allows for a universal application to a wide variety of vehicles. The RH/ARTEC adapter mounts hub-centric to the hub of the vehicle and the ARTEC alloy wheel mounts hub-centric to the RH/ARTEC adapter. www.rhwheels.com /Wheels/adaptive/adaptive.html   (98 words)

Feedback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) This paper explores an approach to building an adaptive expert system in an environment of human-computer collaboration. Components of an adaptive system are identified, with an emphasis on the mechanisms that enable adaptive behavior to occur. Knowledge representation in a rule-based, object-orientated expert system is described through the establishment of appropriate relationships utilizing heuristic rules, objects, and agents. www.stanford.edu /~xpan/adaptive_expert_system.html   (75 words)

Adaptivity System :: Fully adaptive trading system Adaptivity is a fully adaptive futures portfolio trading system. System signals can be followed by subscribing to the signal service, or leased through selected brokerages. Feel free to use the forum and blog to view articles and discussions about trading in general, trading systems, the Adaptivity system and practically anything that is related to the markets. www.adaptivityfutures.com   (419 words)

NSO Solar Adaptive Optics Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) In a "closed loop" servo system the output is fed back to the input and the errors are driven to 0. In addition, the system was upgraded to drive the tip/tilt correction mirror either directly from the AO wavefront sensor or from a separate correlation/spot tracker system that operates at 3 kHz. The system is sensitive to scattered light, so observations are made with the observatory's lights down, or with the AO system shrouded in fl drop cloth. www.nso.edu /press/AO/AO76.html   (2419 words)

Adaptive Hypermedia System (AHS) Adaptive hypermedia systems is a direction of research within the area of user-adaptive systems which its objective is to increase the usability of hypermedia, making it a much more reliable sources of information. Adaptive Hypermedia Application Model (AHAM) is a reference model built for adaptive hypermedia system based on the Dexter Model. This system is teaching SQL programming that adapts to specific needs and learning abilities of individual students. www.angelfire.com /alt2/atc   (947 words)

Lick AO System Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The laser control system is being upgraded this year to minimize the number of laser operators and to provide integration to the AO system and telescope systems. A laser-based metrology system is being implemented that will tie the IR camera to the wavefront sensor using tilt off-loads to keep the image stabilized to a fraction of a pixel on IRCAL. The AO system is designed to have a 2 arcminute field of view, that is, the guide star can be as much as 2 arcminutes off axis from the science object. mthamilton.ucolick.org /techdocs/instruments/AO/index.html   (1342 words)

Sable Adaptive Benchmarking System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The system is now able to build tables automatically from the data that was gathered during the benchmarking process. If the user wishes to use unsupported compilers, virtual machines or tools, or add his or her own benchmarks to the system, he or she will be required to write task decriptor files for these tools in order to use them with the SABS framework. Adding a new benchmark to use with the SABS system is simply a matter of placing your benchmark files in the "benchmarks" directory and creating a benchmark descriptor file to tell the system how to use those files. www.cs.mcgill.ca /~mcheva/sabs.php   (10425 words)

Adaptive Optics Tutorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) An adaptive optics system measures the characteristics of the lens and corrects for it by means of a deformable mirror controlled by a computer. The sensor measures the wavefront distortion and controls a tilt mirror to stabilize the image and a deformable mirror which restores the image sharpness lost to atmospheric turbulence. The adaptive optics system technologies developed and delivered by AOA include adaptive wavefront compensation for optical systems and wavefront measurement. www.aoainc.com /technologies/adaptiveandmicrooptics/aostutorial.html   (495 words)

A complex adaptive system is a large set of objects that interact with each other and with an external environment to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) A complex adaptive system is a large set of objects that interact with each other and with an external environment to produce A complex adaptive system is a large set of objects that interact with each other and with an external environment to produce overall patterns that are significantly more complex than the behaviors of the individual objects of the system. Complex adaptive systems are called adaptive because the agents are responding or adapting to events around them. alpha.fdu.edu /~koppl/note14.htm   (892 words)

SUNY Cortland - Student Development Center - Office of Student Disability Services Flashing light is attached to alarm system to aid individuals who are deaf or hearing impaired. Adaptive aids for telephones including amplified headsets, Ringer lights. Work surface that adjusts to any height up to 35" in 1" increments - castors allow station to be moved and when needed, locked securely in place with two brake-lock castors. www.cortland.edu /sdc/dserve/adaptive.html   (967 words)

complex adaptive system (CAS) A nonlinear, interactive, complex system with the ability to adapt to a changing environment. Examples include living organisms, the nervous system, the immune system, the economy, corporations, and societies. Moreover, unanticipated, emergent structures can play a determining role in the evolution of such systems, which is why they are highly unpredictable. www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/complex_adaptive_system.html   (229 words)

Physical Optics - Adaptive Optics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) In astronomy, Adaptive Optics (AO) is concerned with combatting the effects of turbulence in the earth`s atmosphere which distorts astronomical images. A consortium of Australian universities and the Anglo-Australian Observatory developed a prototype AO system for the Anglo-Australian Telescope, featuring tip-tilt correction using a piezoelectrically mounted mirror, with provision for a low order bimorph deformable mirror system. A paper describing the AO system was published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA 12 106-116, 1995) and is available here as a PostScript document (130kB, no figures). www.physics.usyd.edu.au /physopt/ao/ao.html   (336 words)

Complex Adaptive Systems Research The field of Complex Adaptive Structures is concerned with the application of Complex Adaptive Systems theory to the design of Structures. It follows that the state of the system after each move is defined as a function of the constrained generating procedure hierarchy (CGPH). Therefore the study of Complex Adaptive Structures could also be defined as the study of Emergent Structures; in effect the science of growing structures/buildings. www.casresearch.com   (1109 words)

Complex Adaptive System Such a ¡°social computation¡± system can be regarded as an artificial ecology system, which has similar property and development to nature ecology system. Those all are not accidentally but determined by the basic common property of computing intelligence system and bio-society system of being order-increasing system, or ¡°information system¡±. Many kinds of behavior tactics are competing in the evolutionary system and determine the fitness of the individual along with feature. www.cs.iastate.edu /~baojie/acad/current/cas/cas.htm   (491 words)

Evaluating the Utility and Usability of an Adaptive Hypermedia System - Hk (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Abstract: We have evaluated an adaptive hypermedia system, PUSH, and compared it to a non-adaptive variant of the same system. Hk, K. Evaluating the Utility and Usability of an Adaptive Hypermedia System, Proc. Spatial or Narrative: a study of the Agneta Frida system - Höök, Holm, Tullgren.. citeseer.ist.psu.edu /441072.html   (642 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us   Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.