This paper describes results of the simulation of social objects, the dependenceof schoolchildren's professional abilities on their personal characteristics. Thesimulation tool is the articial neural network (ANN) technology. Results of acomparison of the time expense for training the ANN and...

This paper describes articial neural networks which are based on the adaptiveresonance theory. The usage of these articial neural networks for classicationtasks is presented. The example uses is the classication of patient health fromthe results of general blood analysis.[...]

An estimation of the number of multiplication and addition operations fortraining articial neural networks by means of consecutive and parallel algorithmson a computer cluster is carried out. The evaluation of the eciency of thesealgorithms is developed. The multilayer perceptron, the Volterra...

This paper describes a parallel algorithm for selecting activation functionsof an articial network. For checking the eciency of this algorithm a count ofmultiplicative and additive operations is used.[...]

This paper describes the analysis of a neural network used to predict currencyexchange rates in comparison to technical analysis. The neural network structuresused are a multilayer perceptron and a Volterra network.[...]

The paper is devoted to solving the problem of assessing the quality of the medicalelectronic service. A variety of dimensions and factors of quality, methods and models applied indifferent scopes of activity for assessing quality of service is researched. The basic aspects,requirements and...

The paper is devoted to solving a problem of the development of the website of Russianmunicipal policlinics and provides a selection of a set of elements which should be posted on awebsite. Such elements are necessary to provide citizens with correct and ergonomic e-services.The insufficient...

This special section includes papers originally presented at a workshop on \'Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation\' in July 2004 at the University of Koblenz, in which some thirty colleagues participated. It had been our impression that there was (and still is) a small, but growing number...

The articles collected in this volume have two features in common: they wantto integrate economics, demography and geography, and they want to overcome the stationary approach in modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book is subdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing on economic...