The core idea in both alternatives is to combine in the GA chromosome a myriad of variables corresponding to the different kinds of decisions characterizing the problem solution, in order to reduce the combinatorial explosion to be managed by the standard NLP/MINLP solver.
Other lawmakers, including State Senator Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, a Democrat, pointed out that a 1980 Court of Appeals decision characterized a governor's attempts to impound money allocated by the Legislature as unconstitutional.
The trigger for Bombardier's decision, characterized by some analysts as an audacious declaration of commercial total war, actually was pulled by Pratt & Whitney, the engine manufacturing unit of United Technologies, said Richard Aboulafia, aerospace and defense analyst at Teal Group, in Fairfax, Virginia.
That is not democratic, nor is it a decision characterized by an ounce of discretion and discernment.
Essential features of the paradigm are the restricted duration of the sequential exploration of each object in the pair and of the decision, characterizing a sequential two-alternative forced-choice task, as well as the nonverbal communication of the decision.
An important class of investment decisions is characterized by unrecoverable sunk costs, resolution of uncertainty through time, and the ability to invest in the future as an alternative to investing today.
Counsellor, NGO, IDI HIV testing decisions were characterized by a disturbed assessment of benefits and barriers, and although informants were aware of the preventive and treatment benefits implied in testing, strong barriers held them back from being tested.
But Scott Eschbach, the president and chief executive of McGhan, said he was pleased with the agency's decision, and characterized it as a determination by the government that the implants are "safe and effective".
Because decision making is not a deterministic process [14], [20], we associate each individual interaction with a stochastic decision process characterized by two parameters p and q.
