In this paper, a less than $200 artificial ventilator that can be used against COVID-19 pandemic is presented. Using low-cost easyto-find materials, it has been designed for helping developing countries where supplies building new medical equipments are limited. It complies with requirements, allowing to monitor and adjust ventilation parameters such as tidal volume, maximum intra...

We st udy th e sequences generated by neuronal recurrence equat ions of th e form X n = l [~l then there is a neuronal recurrence equat ion with memory length kr that generates a sequence of period lcmlp «,...

Ebola virus disease (EVD) distinguishes its feature as high infectivity and mortality. Thus, it is urgent for governments to draw up emergency plans against Ebola. However, it is hard to predict the possible epidemic situations in practice. Luckily, in recent years, computational experiments based on artificial society appeared, providing a new approach to study the propagation of EVD and analy...

It is argued that society is a crucial factor in the construction of individual intelligence. In other words that it i s important that intelligence is socially situated in an analogous way to the physical situation o f r obots. Evidence that t his may b e the ca se is taken from developmental linguistics, the social intelligence hypothesis, the complexity of society, the need for self-reflecti...

Telecommunications networks are the largest and most complex artificial structures the human race has ever built and have gradually become an essential social and economic infrastructure. The worldwide demand for communication has consistently pushed the transport speed from merely 34 Megabit/s in the early eighties to 10 Gigabit per second today, i.e. a growth of a factor 10 each seven years. ...

As a new science of complex intelligent information systems, an open giant intelligent information system is a special kind of complex software systems. In this paper, we first presented conception and complexities of open giant intelligent information system, and then we discussed the challenges of agent-based computing for dealing with the above systems’ software complexities. For the facts o...

Artificial Hygiene is the thought taken from the concept of hygiene in daily life. Hygiene is an old concept related to medical, as well as to personal and professional practices that are taken to be care related to most aspects of living. Hygiene practices that are employed as preventative measures to less incidence and spreading of disease, like hand hygiene cleaning the hands before taking f...

Memetic Theory in Artificial Systems and Societies (METAS) is the first edition of a series of international symposia dedicated to qualitative and quantitative aspects of memetic research as applied to artificial (and natural) systems and societies. This symposium will bring together researcher working at the cutting-edge of memetic theory, cultural algorithms and the transmission of culture-li...

We investigate the concept of artificial societies and identify a number of separate classes of such societies. These are compared in terms of openness, flexibility, stability, and trustfulness. The two most obvious types of artificial societies are the open societies, where there are no restrictions for joining the society, and the closed societies, where it is impossible for an “external agen...