The perception of objects is a well-developed field, but the perception of materials has been studied rather little. This is surprising given how important materials are for humans, and how important they must become for intelligent robots. We may learn something by looking at other fields in which material appearance is recognized as important. Classical artists were highly skilled at generati...

Many publicly available databases exist for managing materials scientific data. These databases contain information from a wide variety of work, and the information is typically encoded in some proprietary format aimed at highlighting the goals of their particular backgrounds and purposes. In order to accelerate the rate at which new materials are discovered, these databases must be federated t...

We developed a simple interactive simulation tool that applies the simulated breeding method to evolve populations of Reynolds’ Boids system. A user manually evolves swarm behaviors of artificial agents by repeatedly selecting his/her preferred behavior as a parent of the next generation. We used this tool as part of teaching materials of the course “Mathematical Modeling and Simulation” offere...

The main challenge facing the oil industry is to reduce development costs while accelerating recovery with maximizing reserves. One of the key enabling technologies in this area is intelligent well completions. Intelligent well technology (IWT) is a relatively new technology that has been adopted by many operators in recent years to improve oil and gas recovery. Intelligent well completions emp...

overtaking a slow lead vehicle is a complex maneuver because of the variety of overtaking conditions and driver behavior. in this study, two novel prediction models for overtaking behavior are proposed. these models are derived based on multi-input multi-output adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (manfis). they are validated at microscopic level and are able to simulate and predict the future...

permeability can be directly measured using cores taken from the reservoir in the laboratory. due to high cost associated with coring, cores are available in a limited number of wells in a field. many empirical models, statistical methods, and intelligent techniques were suggested to predict permeability in un-cored wells from easy-to-obtain and frequent data such as wireline logs. the main obj...