Frameworks for multiagent decision making may be divided into those where each agent is assigned a single variable (SVFs) and those where each agent carries an internal model, which can be further divided into loosely coupled frameworks (LCFs) and tightly coupled frameworks (TCFs). In TCFs, agent communication interfaces render their subdomains conditionally independent. In LCFs, either agents ...

A method is presented to combine analog simulators (like SPICE) with device simulators (like ANSYS), for thermal-electrical analysis of integrated circuits or systems. A sketch of a rst prototype program is given together with the theoretical background, which makes use of convergence principles from Waveform Relaxation. It follows a short review of related work. Our approach can also be extend...

A majority of ATP in the brain is formed in the mitochondria through oxidative phosphorylation of ADP with the F(1)F(0)-ATP (ATPase) enzyme. This ATP production rate plays central roles in brain bioenergetics, function and neurodegeneration. In vivo (31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy combined with magnetization transfer (MT) is the sole approach able to noninvasively determine this ATP metab...

This paper presents two Tightly-Coupled fusion techniques to enhance position, velocity and attitude estimation based on position fixes of an Ultra-Short Base Line (USBL) positioning system with low update rates and the high rate Inertial Navigation System (INS) outputs, subject to bias and unbounded drift. In this framework, the vehicle interrogates transponders placed at known positions of th...

Due to the increasingly diiculty of discovering patterns in real-world databases using only conventional OLAP tools, an automated process such as data mining is currently essential. As data mining over large data sets can take a prohibitive amount of time related to the computational complexity of the algorithms, parallel processing has often been used as a solution. However, when data does not...