During this decade, the design of small-size wireless communication devices was key topic in the field of communication engineering. The design of miniaturized antenna is an important parameter to reduce the overall size of the wireless communication devices. Many approaches have been proposed to design the miniaturized antennas. Recently, fractal antenna geometry has been employed to design th...

Fractal is a component model developed initially by France Telecom and INRIA and later as an open source project in the ObjectWeb consortium. The component model is defined by the Fractal Component Model specification [BCS]. The specification defines a hierarchical component model, where a component is specified in terms of its server and client (provided and required) interfaces and configurab...

This article is a report on the 5th international workshop devoted to the Fractal component model that took place the 4th of July 2006 in Nantes, France, as an ECOOP workshop. Prior to that, the article provides some background on the Fractal project and previous Fractal workshops for readers who are not familiar with Fractal.

The project aims to explore two fractal models (by Lowen and Liebovitch) of ion channel kinetics, and how this affects spike train patterns. The project also intends to extend the Liebovitch model and explore how fractal dimension affects potassium ion channel conductance profiles, and the behavior and rate of action potentials. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Fractal patterns have been used to model...

Model-based diagnostic reasoning often leads to a large number of diagnostic hypotheses. The set of diagnoses can be reduced by taking into account extra observations (passive diagnosis), measuring additional variables (probing) or executing additional tests (sequential testing/test sequencing). In this paper we combine the above approaches, as well as from Automated Test Pattern Generation (AT...

in this paper we define weak $f$-contractions on a‎ ‎metric space into itself by extending $f$-contractions‎ ‎introduced by d‎. ‎wardowski (2012) and provide some fixed point‎ ‎results in complete metric spaces and in partially ordered complete ‎generalized metric spaces‎. ‎some relationships between weak‎ ‎$f$-contractions and $fi$-contractions are highlighted‎. ‎we also ‎give some application...

The fractal geometry, issued of a synthesis of works done in Mathematics and in Physics since more of one century, proposed in the 70’s new concepts to understand some complex phenomenon ([Man77]). The notions of fractional dimension and scale invariance have been recognized applicable quickly for the description of many natural objects, of the mountainous to the maritime facades while passing ...