Background: Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques obtaining different results in different contexts. The need for accurate effort predictions for projects is one of the ...

In this brief, we propose to increase the capabilities of standard real AdaBoost (RAB) architectures by replacing their linear combinations with a fusion controlled by a gate with fixed kernels. Experimental results in a ...

The fishery for the swimming crab Ovalipes trimaculatus in the southwestern Atlantic started in 2007, with an average catch of 64.36 t⋅y −1 during the period between 2008 and 2013. The fishery is under an open access regime ...

The complexity of providing accurate software effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques, with different ...

The complexity of providing accurate software effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques, with different ...

Latin America and the Caribbean is highly dependent on imports of medical products, as less than 4% of these are sourced within the region itself. To date, more than 70 countries —including four of the region’s top five ...

The management of invasive species in large, little-known, nature reserves is difficult. Weighing the risk of invasion against the conservation value of each sector in nature reserves would help design viable management ...

Usually, metaheuristic algorithms are adapted to a large set of problems by applying few modifications on parameters for each specific case. However, this flexibility demands a huge effort to correctly tune such parameters. ...