This paper presents a multi-agent system approach to address the difficulties encountered in traditional SCADA systems deployed in critical environments such as electrical power generation, transmission and distribution. The approach models uncertainty and combines multiple sources of uncertain information to deliver robust plan selection. We examine the approach in the context of a simplified ...

With the increasing growth of the size and complexity of modern safetycritical systems, the demand for model based engineering methods that both help in architecting such systems and to asses their safety and correctness becomes increasingly obvious. Causality checking is an automated method for formal causality analysis of system models and system execution traces. In this paper we report on w...

Active motion is a concept in complex systems theory and was successfully applied to various problems in nonlinear dynamics. Explicit studies for gravitational potentials were missing so far. We interpret the Friedmann equations with cosmological constant as a dynamical system, which can be made ’active’ in a straightforward way. These active Friedmann equations lead to a cyclic universe, which...

A new adaptive learning control approach is proposed for a class of nonlinearly parameterized complex dynamical networks with unknown time-varying parameters. By using the parameter separation and reparameterization technique, the adaptive learning laws of periodically timevarying and constant parameters and an adaptive control strategy are designed to ensure the asymptotic convergence of the s...

This paper is about one of the central dilemmas of e-Learning: can we separate content and context, and how should we manage the relationship between the two? Or to put it another way, are Learning Objects just commoditised learning? With the growth of e-Learning over the past few years, learning objects have come into their own. They are the component units of e-Learning, and in principle can ...

the relative stability of hydrogen-bonded of molybdate-phosphonic acid (mpa) complex (1:2) ingas phase has been carried out using density functional theory (dft) methods. the methods are usedfor calculations are b3lyp, bp86 and b3pw91 that have been studied in two series of basis sets: d95**and 6-31+g(d,p) for hydrogen and oxygen atoms; lanl2dz for mo and phosphorus. predictedhydrogen-bond geom...

A more sophisticated understanding of the unpredictable, disorderly and unstable aspects of healthcare organisations is developing in the knowledge translation (KT) literature. In an article published in this journal, Kitson et al introduced a new model for KT in healthcare based on complexity theory. The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network Model (KTCNM) provides a fresh perspective by mak...

Concepts taken from complex systems theory, such as ‘agents’ and ‘attractors’, have been proposed as metaphors in medical practice. This proposal is assessed by a comparison of the notions of complex adaptive systems (CAS) and human complexity. CAS are characterized by the emergence of sophisticated output features of rule-governed non-linear systems. Human complexity is the result of higher me...