Computer modelling and simulation

The field of biologically inspired computation has coexisted with mainstream computing since the 1930s, and the pioneers in this area include Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, Robert Rosen, Otto Schmitt, Alan Turing, John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener.

During the past few years two principally different approaches to the design of fuzzy controllers have emerged: heuristics-based design and model-based design.

Geometric constraint programming increases flexibility in CAD design specifications and leads to new conceptual design paradigms.

In this book several concepts with respect to the development and reusability of multimedia content in web-based learning systems are introduced.

Bondgraphs are a well-established technique for the modelling of complex engineering systems.

Just a few years ago, virtual reality was regarded as more a toy than a tool.

This book deals with transportation processes denoted as the Real-time Distribution of Perishable Goods (RDOPG).

This prizewinning PhD thesis presents a general discussion of the orbital motion close to solar system small bodies (SSSBs), which induce non-central asymmetric gravitational fields in their neighborhoods.

This book presents an agile and model-driven approach to manage scientific workflows.

This volume is based on the workshop"e;Modelling in Molecular Biology"e; that tookplacein2002inSingapore.

A crucial step during the design and engineering of communication systems is the estimation of their performance and behavior; especially for mathematically complex or highly dynamic systems network simulation is particularly useful.

As modern society relies on the fault-free operation of complex computing systems, system fault-tolerance has become an indispensable requirement.

Based on the competition of international production networks, the pressure to - crease the efficiency of production systems has increased significantly.

Artificial neural networks are used to model systems that receive inputs and produce outputs.

Object-oriented concepts are particularly applicable to computer graphics in its broadest sense, including interaction, image synthesis, animation, and computer-aided design.

One of the important issues of Scientific Visualization is the utilization of the broad bandwidth of the human sensory system in steering and interpreting complex processes and simulations involving voluminous data sets across diverse scientific disciplines.

Swarm intelligence is a modern arti?

Precise dynamic models of processes are required for many applications, ranging from control engineering to the natural sciences and economics.

A good decade after the temporary end of attempts to make driving simulation into an accepted, productive teaching and training technology, new possibilities and chances are on the horizon, motivated by current EU legislation.

Formal specification languages, object-oriented methods, CASE tools, component-based software production, agent-oriented, aspect-oriented .

Parallel and distributed computer systems are built to close the gap between the demand for high-performance computing and the computing power available using standalone single-processor machines.

Energy consumption is of great interest to manufacturing companies.

This text presents the practical application of queueing theory results for the design and analysis of manufacturing and production systems.

Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) is a graphical language for modelling and validating concurrent and distributed systems, and other systems in which concurrency plays a major role.

Computational Atomic Physics deals with computational methods for calculating electron (and positron) scattering from atoms and ions, including elastic scattering, excitation, and ionization processes.

There has been much progress in the computational approaches in the field of materials science during the past two decades.

The major goal of this book is to present the implementation of some damage models with finite elements.

Using computers to solve problems and model physical problems has fast become an integral part of undergraduate and graduate education in physics.

Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science.

Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models.

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The utilization of mathematical models to numerically describe the performance of internal combustion engines is of great significance in the development of new and improved engines.

Although the self-adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of self-adaptive systems that are able to adapt to internal faults, changing requirements, and evolving environments.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book collects a set of chapters of the multi-disciplinary project "e;Games, actions and Social software"e; which was carried out at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar, from September 2006 through January 2007.

Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ToPNoC) IIThese Transactions publish archival papers in the broad area of Petri nets and other models of concurrency, ranging from theoretical work to tool support and industrial applications.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on - gebraic Frames for the Perception and Action Cycle.

The LNCS Journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techniques in the context of all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution.

Thesetransactions publish research in computer-based methods of computationalcollective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fieldssuch as the semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techniques in the context of all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution.

These Transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the Semantic Web, social networks and multiagent systems.

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art, in conceptual modeling.

The SPIN workshop series brings together researchers and practitioners int- ested in explicit state model checking technology as it is applied to the veri?

This volume is based on papers accepted for the Second International Workshop on Multi-agent-based Simulation (MABS-2000)federated with the Fourth Int- national Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000)held in Boston in July 2000.

The International User Modeling Conferences are the events at which research foundations are being laid for the personalization of computer systems.

Field-coupled nanocomputing (FCN) paradigms offer fundamentally new approaches to digital information processing that do not utilize transistors or require charge transport.

The Hybrid Deliberative Layer (HDL) solves the problem that an intelligent agent faces in dealing with a large amount of information which may or may not be useful in generating a plan to achieve a goal.