In this paper we provide an overall description of a model of social behaviour that allows a flexible parametrisation of cultural expectations. These expectations are associated to how people perceive and treat others from a socio-relational perspective.

Background: Nowadays, medical environment is becoming increasingly competitive in order to meet the patients' expectations and demands. Despite their efforts to provide the best services, nurses often receive complaints from people who are dissatisfied with the services they receive. There are reports claiming nurses as violent and unethical in their duties. This leads to constant stress among ...

Rubber bushings are extensively-used linking parts in a vehicle chassis that allow to filter noise and vibration. They influence much, however, the transient behaviour of the vehicle, such as its steering performance. Therefore building a multibody simulation with a relevant description of the rubber bushings is useful to describe the significant characteristics of the vehicle’s steering behavi...

By adding the concept of random embryology with locality to Lotka-Volterra population equations, a description of biological evolution is created. This model is called Ecolab. Computer simulations of these systems display self organised criticality, with power law behaviour for species lifetimes that stand in stark contrast to gradualism. This paper explores areas of future research with this m...

This paper presents a new approach to model crowd behaviour in normal and risky situations. Our model is based on human cognitive characteristics specially personality type, perception and emotion that we assume relevant to individuals’ behavioural decisions. The model supports an efficient interaction between the different architecture components to provide behaviour. A formal definition of co...

We determine the asymptotic behaviour of (bilateral) obstacle problems for fractional energies in rather general aperiodic settings via Γ-convergence arguments. As further developments we consider obstacles with random sizes and shapes located on points of standard lattices, and the case of random homothetics obstacles centered on random Delone sets of points. Obstacle problems for non-local en...

This paper gives a proof of the Turing completeness of the Circal process algebra by exhibiting a universal program capable of mapping any Turing machine description into Circal specifications that effectively simulate the behaviour of the given machine.

Autonomic communications systems must demonstrate behaviour that remains correct under a range of environmental conditions. In order to gain confidence that a system will behave as intended, it is advantageous to have a formal description of the expected behaviour that can be analysed and tested for compliance with different stimuli. We present an adaptive systems perspective on a recently-prop...

The computerized modeling tool for DEDSs (that are highly event-driven) is given. Statecharts formalism is used for description of the system's behaviour. The graphics-based tool Stacha contains GUI which enables to draw the Statecharts and to specify the behaviour of the system under development. The described modeling tool further enables to analyse the system properties (such as liveness, re...