In industrial visual inspection, foreign matters are mostly fractal objects. Detailed detection of objects is difficult but necessary because better decision-making relies on more detailed and comprehensive information. This presents a challenge for applications. To solve this problem, we proposed holistic approach to object based multi-head model. We the IWS (Information Watch Study) module pr...

Fractal is a component model developed initially by France Telecom and INRIA and later as an open source project in the ObjectWeb consortium. The component model is defined by the Fractal Component Model specification [BCS]. The specification defines a hierarchical component model, where a component is specified in terms of its server and client (provided and required) interfaces and configurab...

Lyapunov equations that dependon communication graph topologies provide building blocks of Lyapunov functions, which play an important role in controller design and stability analysis of multi-agent systems. However, construction of such a Lyapunov equation in some published works has a flaw or requires unnecessarily strong graph conditions. This paper presents several choices of Lyapunov equat...

This article is a report on the 5th international workshop devoted to the Fractal component model that took place the 4th of July 2006 in Nantes, France, as an ECOOP workshop. Prior to that, the article provides some background on the Fractal project and previous Fractal workshops for readers who are not familiar with Fractal.

The project aims to explore two fractal models (by Lowen and Liebovitch) of ion channel kinetics, and how this affects spike train patterns. The project also intends to extend the Liebovitch model and explore how fractal dimension affects potassium ion channel conductance profiles, and the behavior and rate of action potentials. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Fractal patterns have been used to model...

Model-based diagnostic reasoning often leads to a large number of diagnostic hypotheses. The set of diagnoses can be reduced by taking into account extra observations (passive diagnosis), measuring additional variables (probing) or executing additional tests (sequential testing/test sequencing). In this paper we combine the above approaches, as well as from Automated Test Pattern Generation (AT...

the continuum based approaches don’t provide the correct physics in atomic scales. on the other hand, the molecular based approaches are limited by the length and simulated process time. as an attractive alternative, this paper proposes the fixed interfacial multiscale method (fimm) for computationally and mathematically efficient modeling of solid structures. the approach is applicable to mult...

It is well known that the permeability and density of an aggregate decreases with its size, affecting its settling velocity and coagulation rate (rate of particle capture) with other particles. This change in aggregate density with size can be described by fractal scaling relationships. Two distinctly different fractal scaling approaches, however, have been used to describe aggregate permeabili...

We numerically investigate the sensitivity to initial conditions of asymmetric unimodal maps x(t+1)=1-a/x(t)/(z(i)) (i=1,2 correspond to x(t)>0 and x(t)<0, respectively, z(i)>1, 0<a< or =2, t=0,1,2,...) at the edge of chaos. We employ three distinct algorithms to characterize the power-law sensitivity to initial conditions at the edge of chaos, namely: direct measure of the divergence of initia...