Search results for: G. Baele
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In this paper, we present an agent-based system to control a single robot's behaviour. We present an artificial genome structure, based on gene regulatory networks, in which several regions can be distinguished such as promoter regions, indicator genes, transcription factor binding sites, regulatory genes and expressed genes. We use agent-based modeling (ABM) to simulate a bio-inspired system based...
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Self-organization in natural systems demonstrates very reliable and scalable collective behavior without using any central elements. When providing collective robotic systems with self-organizing principles, we are facing new problems of making self-organization purposeful, self-adapting to changing environments and faster, in order to meet requirements from a technical perspective. This paper describes...
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2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation > 1123 - 1130
The SYMBRION project stands at the crossroads of artificial life and evolutionary robotics: a swarm of real robots undergoes online evolution by exchanging information in a decentralized Evolutionary Robotics Scheme: the diffusion of each individual's genotype depends both on its ability to survive in an unknown environment as well as its ability to maximize mating opportunities during its lifetime,...
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Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis > 2009 > 49 > 2 > 519-524
In sports, diuretics are used for two main reasons: to flush previously taken prohibited substances with forced diuresis and in sports where weight classes are involved to achieve acute weight loss. A common property observed for thiazides is hydrolysis in aqueous media resulting in the formation of the degradation product aminobenzenedisulphonamide. This degradation product can be observed for several...
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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology > 1997 > 50 > 4 > 393-399
Elevated fibrinogen concentrations are recognized as playing an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. In the framework of a risk factor survey in 342 middle-aged working men, screened twice over a period of five months, plasma fibrinogen levels were found to be fairly unstable as large discrepancies between both measurements were observed. Due to a substantial proportion of within-person...
