The multi-agent simulation is viewed as the interaction of agents, and is frequently applied for analyzing their selforganization in complex systems. To decide their next behavior, such agents generally access spatial information that needs to be not only made available to the agents in local but also diffused over an entire simulation space. As an efficient implementation of information diffus...

Large-scale electromagnetic field simulations using the FDTD (finite-difference time-domain) method require the use of GPU (graphics processing unit) clusters. However, the communication overhead caused by slow interconnections becomes a major performance bottleneck. In this paper, as a way to remove the bottleneck,wepropose the ‘kernel-splitmethod’ and the ‘host-buffermethod’which overlap comp...

background: it is known that dental unit waterline can be a source of infection. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effi cacy of a mouthwash, chlorhexidine, in controlling microbial and fungal contamination of dental unit waterlines. materials and methods: in the present experimental study, the water in high-speed handpieces and air/water syringes of 35 dental units in a dental school wa...

In this paper, we develop a novel homotopy smoothing (HOPS) algorithm for solving a family of non-smooth problems that is composed of a non-smooth term with an explicit max-structure and a smooth term or a simple non-smooth term whose proximal mapping is easy to compute. The best known iteration complexity for solving such non-smooth optimization problems is O(1/ ) without any assumption on the...

to study the mechanical and thermal parameters effective on quality and quantity of olive oil towards an extraction of highly pure oil, the velocity in rps of crushing rollers, at two levels of 6 and 12 (rps) along with the temperature of the mixing unit at three levels of 30, 45 and 60°c were taken into account. data, obtaind through a factorial experiment of randomized complete block design (...

Consider a two-level inventory system consisting of one supplier and one retailer. The retailer faces a Poisson demand with a known rate and applies base stock (one-for-one ordering) policy. That is, his inventory position is set to a pre-determined level, so the demand pattern is transferred exactly to the supplier. The supplier has an inventory system and a service unit with exponentially dis...