The application of Visible and Near-Infrared (VIS/NIR) spectroscopy to determine economic adulteration of crabmeat was determined. Crabmeat samples were adulterated in 10% increments according to weight. The adulterants chosen were surimi-based imitation crabmeat, due to its low cost and...

This paper investigates the process of deriving a single decision solely based on the decisions made by a population of experts. Four different amalgamation processes are studied and compared among one another, collectively referred to as central decision makers. The expert, also referred to as...

Land markets play a crucial role in agricultural structural change. Because the dynamics of structural change and land markets, respectively, mainly depend on the interactions between individual farms, agent-based modeling (ABM) has been established as a tool for understanding and explaining...

In this paper we test a particular variant of the (Repulsive) Particle Swarm method on some rather difficult global optimization problems. A number of these problems are collected from the extant literature and a few of them are newly introduced. First, we introduce the Particle Swarm method of...