Evacuation performance is crucial for gymnasium design and occupant safety. This paper uses Simulex, an agent-based model to simulate and optimize the evacuation performance of a typical medium-size university gymnasium. Simulated results show that the current design is susceptible to evacuation problems, such as long egress time, insufficient exits and severe imbalance for stair usage. Design ...

objective: in this trial, we intend to assess the effect of simulation-based education approach on advanced cardiovascular life support skills among medical students. methods: through convenient sampling method, 40 interns of mashhad university of medical sciences in their emergency medicine rotation (from september to december 2012) participated in this study. advanced cardiovascular life supp...

We propose a novel framework for experimental designs of liberalised wholesale power markets, namely the Agent-based Computational Economics of the Wholesale Electricity Market (ACEWEM) framework. Here, we describe a detailed market simulation whereby the strategies of power generators emerge as a result of a stochastic profit maximisation learning algorithm based upon the GAMLSS (Generalized A...

rating medicinal plants based on the total number of drug shows that the mint plant species, withgeneral name mentha, among the most consumption herbs that are used in various industries such aspharmaceutical, food, cosmetics and health. drying process, in order to maintain the quality andquantity of essential oil extraction have a great role in the processing medicinal plants. importantaspects...

the establishment as well as the survival of mobile ad-hoc networks relies on the cooperation of nodes for performing network operations such as routing and packet forwarding. in these networks, misbehaving nodes can severely degrade network’s performance by not cooperating in networking operations. in this paper, we study the issue of node misbehavior in packet forwarding. to counter this type...

background: simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. aim: to expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (pph) management; to assess which method was more effective. methods: present prospective study was conducted in obstetrics gynecology department of rural tertiary center of northern india.  twenty postgraduates wer...

in this paper we focus on a continuously deteriorating two units series equipment which its failure can not be measured by cost criterion. for these types of systems avoiding failure during the actual operation of the system is extremely important. in this paper we determine inspection periods and maintenance policy in such a way that failure probability is limited to a pre-specified value and ...

Test beds for multi-agent systems provide the means for experimenting with multiple agents that act and interact concurrently in their environment. Mostly, test beds constitute specialized tools which provide speci c scenarios for testing speci c agentarchitectures. To facilitate reuse and a exible compositional construction of experimental frames for multiagent systems, JAMES, a Java Based Age...