Synergetic modeling in education

A Synergetic Approach to the Modeling of Power Electronic Systems

We introduce the Synergetic approach, which brings great improvements in computer modeling and simulation of power electronic systems. Essentially, the process involves synthesis of control laws that result in collapse of (at least two) initially high-dimension models into a single model of lower-dimension. The technique requires creation of state space attractors, artificial manifolds, that re...

Qualitative Modeling in Education

valuable way for students to learn. Two modelbuilding environments, VMODEL and HOMER/VISIGARP, are presented that support learners by constructing conceptual models of systems and their behavior using qualitative formalisms. Both environments use diagrammatic representations to facilitate knowledge articulation. Preliminary evaluations in educational settings provide support for the hypothesis ...

Synergetic Approach in Adaptive Systems

Synergetic Organization in Speech Rhythm

The Speech Cycling Task (SCT) is a novel experimental paradigm developed together with Robert Port and Keiichi Tajima at Indiana University. In a SCT, subjects repeat a phrase containing multiple prominent, or stressed, syllables in time with an external timer, which can be simple or complex. A phase-based collective variable is deened in the acoustic signal. This paper reports on two experimen...

Evolving synergetic interactions

Cooperators forgo their own interests to benefit others. This reduces their fitness and thus cooperators are not likely to spread based on natural selection. Nonetheless, cooperation is widespread on every level of biological organization ranging from bacterial communities to human society. Mathematical models can help to explain under which circumstances cooperation evolves. Evolutionary game ...