Through the convergent operation and divergent operation, individuals in PSO group and diverge in the search space/objective space.
We also use a regular, "divergent" mutate operation, that makes unique mutations in each viral population and is responsible for individual variations between the populations.
So far, more than 30 full-scale divergent plants are in operation throughout the world, mostly in Austria, China, Japan, the Netherlands, and USA.
Critical to creative cognition and performance is both the generation of multiple alternative solutions in response to open-ended problems (divergent thinking) and a series of cognitive operations that converges on the correct or best possible answer (convergent thinking).
U.S. agencies followed "divergent approaches," Afghan ministries weren't committed to reforms, "many mining operations are still controlled by political elites, warlords, military personnel, and the police," transportation networks are inadequate, the central government delayed work, and several projects showed no results while others failed to meet "key performance indicators".
The divergent business objectives, said Hart, have radically different implications for the day-to-day operations.
Figure 22 Principle of Varioptic liquid lenses operation based on EWOD principle: (a) the tension is cut off, the rays are divergent, (b) the tension is applied, the rays are focalized [71].
Arthur Brown, who retired in February as the head of the directorate of operations for Asia at the Central Intelligence Agency and who spent more than 20 years studying North Korea, said the divergent assessments were not surprising.
And Divergent is dangerous.
They took divergent paths.
