Applied scientists often like to use ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to model complex dynamic processes that arise in biology, engineering, medicine, and many other areas. It is interesting but challenging to estimate ODE parameters from noisy data, especially when the data have some outliers. We propose a robust method to address this problem. The dynamic process is represented with a n...

We focus on our experiences on translating ontologies between two ontology languages, FLogic and Ontolingua, in the framework of Methontology and ODE. Rather than building "ad hoc" translators between languages or using KIF, our option consists of translating through ODE intermediate representations. So, we have built direct translators from ODE intermediate representations to Ontolingua and FL...

Ordinary differential equations (ODE) are a powerful tool for modeling dynamic processes with wide applications in a variety of scientific fields. Over the last 2 decades, ODEs have also emerged as a prevailing tool in various biomedical research fields, especially in infectious disease modeling. In practice, it is important and necessary to determine unknown parameters in ODE models based on e...

A component-based methodology to derive parallel stiff Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) solvers for multicomputers is presented. The methodology allows the exploitation of the multilevel parallelism of this kind of numerical algorithms and the particular structure of ODE systems by using parallel linear algebra modules. The approach furthers the reusability of the design specifications and ...

In re ent years there has been an in reasing trend toward the in orporation of omputers into a variety of devi es where the amount of memory available is limited. This makes it desirable to try to redu e the size of appli ations where possible. This arti le explores the use of ompiler te hniques to a omplish ode ompa tion to yield smaller exe utables. The main ontribution of this arti le is to ...

OBJECTIVE To assess optical coherence tomography in differentiating optic disc edema (ODE) due to papilledema and other optic neuropathies from optic nerve head drusen (ONHD). METHODS Optical coherence tomographic images from 60 subjects (20 with ODE, 20 with ONHD, and 20 control subjects) were assessed qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitative criteria for ODE included an elevated optic ...