We propose conditions in which an autonomous agent could arise, and increase in complexity. It is assumed that on the primitive Earth there arose a recycling flow-reactor containi...
Background: Information extraction (IE) efforts are widely acknowledged to be important in harnessing the rapid advance of biomedical knowledge, particularly in areas where import...
Lawrence Hunter, Zhiyong Lu, James Firby, William ...
Background: Metabolic networks present a complex interconnected structure, whose understanding is in general a non-trivial task. Several formal approaches have been developed to s...
We evaluate two broad classes of cognitive mechanisms that might support the learning of sequential patterns. According to the first, learning is based on the gradual accumulation...
With the rapid replacement of closed, homogeneous, proprietary HPC systems by heterogeneous, Linux-MPI cluster systems, the state of performance monitoring and analysis tools has ...