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Multi-agent simulations are useful for exploring collective patterns of individual behavior in social, biological, economic, network, and physical systems. However, there is no provenance support for multi-agent models (MAMs) in a distributed setting. To this end, we introduce ProvMASS, a novel approach to capture provenance of MAMs in a distributed memory by combining inter-process identification,...
Biological collections store information with broad societal and environmental impact. In the last 15 years, after worldwide investments and crowdsourcing efforts, 25% of the collected specimens have been digitized; a process that includes the imaging of text attached to specimens and subsequent extraction of information from the resulting image. This information extraction (IE) process is complex,...
The article deals with the possibilities of applying mathematical modelling and post-optimization analysis in the strategic planning tasks including identifying and coordinating the targets for social and economic development and justifying the mechanisms for managing development programs. An approach is proposed to restore the structure of private targeted preferences of participants in state development...
The possibilities of gaming simulation to support the adoption of a broad range of planned and operational decisions in the management of enterprises and corporations are considered. The capabilities developed to date tools game modeling and original approach based on a synthesis of basic concepts of game theory and operations research with the ideas analytical accounting, the strict definition of...
The use of cognitive maps in support of solving practical problems of analysis of ill-structured situations and large-scale systems in economics, medicine, ecology, education and military-political sphere is growing. The problem of visual perception and understanding of cognitive maps is proven to be extremely urgent and practically important. The set of visualization methods that provide better perception...
The emergence of a new paradigm such as ubiquitous or IoT implies that the members of future software systems can vary dynamically, rather than being predetermined according to the purpose of the system. Unlike in the case of the conventional systems, in order to give adaptability to systems that change dynamically, the system rules should be designed and applied considering the dynamic changes of...
Hair cells are thought to be passive transduction systems able to convert a mechanical pulse in an electrical signal. In this paper, we have investigated the polyelectrolyte properties of actin filaments which in interaction with myosin motor proteins represent basic participants in mechano-electrical transduction in the stereocilia, mechanosensing organelles of hair cells. We have elaborated a biophysical...
SimVascular is an open source software platform for cardiovascular simulation, providing a complete pipeline from medical image data to volumetric model construction, meshing, and blood flow simulation. Previous workshops and educational programs have utilized SimVascular, but learning assessments have not been used to rigorously quantify gains in conceptual understanding. Goal: The purpose of this...
The extensive involvement of energy conversion and storage technologies is becoming increasingly important in the context of energy transition. A sufficient modeling and simulation of large-scale and coherent cross-energy systems is essential to enable decision makers to put the right course. This process implies growing complexity in terms of physical and market economy modeling on the device-level,...
In far-off regions without a connection to the main grid, primarily diesel generators are used for the power supply. However, hybrid energy systems such as PV-diesel-battery systems have a high potential to reduce CO2-emissions and fuel costs. As a challenge, on the one hand, smart dispatch strategies are required to compensate the limited part-load capacity of diesel generators and the volatility...
The tonic postural system guarantees the stability of the human body in upright stance and during locomotion. It is considered as a complex organization which involves several internal systems and has multiple sources of information. In this paper, we provide a review of techniques and materials for human stability assessment. The primary tools to record and evaluate human sways in static posture...
Improvements of energy efficiency and reduction of electricity consumption can be promoted by growing knowledge on the determinants of residential electricity consumption level (RECL). Due to numerousness, complexity and multiple correlations among impact factors (IFs) of RECL, feature selection is an essential step to ensure the precision and stability of an explanatory model. However, the current...
This paper has the focus to identify the unknown parameters of solar photovoltaic generators in real time, through the application of a new proposed technic. The identification process is discussed with details, about the four steps of identification. In this regard, the first step explain the experimental data acquisition work, to obtain data from real photovoltaic system. For the second step, a...
The heterogeneous network concept in many respects meets customer requirements and maintains high energy efficiency. In this paper, we mainly investigate the impact of deployment efficiency of heterogeneous small cells BSs compared to the advantages of increasing the performance of wireless networks as a whole. We used well-known analytical models for calculating the values that can be obtained for...
In this paper is presented a fault detection method for a biological wastewater treatment process (WWTP) based on residual generation. The residuals were determined by comparing the process model affected by different faults with its neural model. The simulation results demonstrate that this approach is efficient for detecting faults which occurs in biotechnological processes.
This interactive workshop uses the metaphor of a baseball team to illustrate the variety of people-roles involved in making educational improvements happen, as well as the academic ecosystem in which these changes occur. When making smaller-scale changes, the members may be more loosely structured like an informal sandlot team, though core roles still need to be fulfilled. Larger-scale changes may...
Diverse methods abstracting plant architectures are applied in different FSPMs (Functional Structural Plant Models). The abstracted plant architectural data are not applicable for every FSPM because the data models applied in the diverse methods are not compatible. In this paper, we introduce a logical data exchange model EG (Exchange Graph) for adapting different methods abstracting plant architecture...
Mimicking Nature becomes very popular in technology, however the approaches used for bio-imitation are not clearly defined especially in bioengineering and biomedical sciences. Most of the time, these scientific fields apply imitation principles but the interest of biomechanical assessment is underestimated. There are three main ways to mimic biological systems : biomimicry, biomimetics and bioinspiration...
The paper presents a system of controlling a biomechanical walking machine. Our approach is quite peculiar because it simultaneously solves the inverse and the direct control problem on the basis of the machine model. At first, using the data about the movement of the machine body the trajectories of the feet movement are calculated; then, using the machine model, leg joints turn angles are determined,...
The main objective of the presented work is to do a preliminary sensitivity analysis of the simplified neuromusculoskeletal model of the human middle finger that we have already developed [1], [2]. The importance of this study is to improve the model by well estimating internal parameters, which are the most affecting the model output, and by adapting it to each individual. The sensitivity analysis...
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