Syntactic search relies on keywords contained in a query to find suitable documents. So, documents that do not contain the keywords but contain information related to the query are not retrieved. Spreading activation is an algorithm for finding latent information in a query by exploiting relations between nodes in an associative network or semantic network. However, the classical spreading acti...

Many studies have explored spreading and diffusion through complex networks. The following study examines a specific case of spreading of opinions in modern society through two spreading schemes – defined as being either through ‘word-of-mouth’ (WOM), or through online search engines (WEB). We apply both modelling and real experimental results and compare the opinions people adopt through an ex...

The dynamical process of epidemic spreading has drawn much attention of the complex network community. In the network paradigm, diseases spread from one person to another through the social ties amongst the population. There are a variety of factors that govern the processes of disease spreading on the networks. A common but not negligible factor is people's reaction to the outbreak of epidemic...

Abstract Impact spreading of droplets in spray coating of paper was investigated using numerical simulation based on a volume-offluid (VOF) model. The results include the effects of droplet size, droplet impact velocity, liquid viscosity, liquid surface tension and paper web velocity on droplet spreading. Pressure and strain rate fields as well as timescales of spreading are reported. The resul...

This paper deals with the description of a new adaptive filtering system called RELIEFS (for RELevance Information Fuzzy System). The main principles of this system draw their inspiration from cognitive models of information selection. More precisely, our research is based on the analysis of semantic memory models (knowledge access and knowledge organisation) and attentional models (information...

This article describes rational analyses and cognitive models of Web users developed within information foraging theory. This is done by following the rational analysis methodology of (a) characterizing the problems posed by the environment, (b) developing rational analyses of behavioral solutions to those problems, and (c) developing cognitive models that approach the realization of those solu...

Information spreading in self-organized networks is a frequently investigated research topic today; however, investigating the characteristics of application spreading by exploiting the direct connections between the user devices has not been widely studied yet. In this paper, we present our spreading model, in which we use Closed Queuing Networks to model the application spreading process. In ...