introduction this paper proposes the concept of autonomous drug-encapsulated nanoparticle (adenp) as a novel non-invasive approach to prevent atherosclerosis. adenp consists of three simple units of sensor, controller (computing), and actuator. the hardware complexity of adenp is much lower than most of the nanorobots, while the performance is maintained by the synergism in the swarm architectu...

Building heating and cooling accounts for nearly 18-24% of all energy usage. Building energy management can reduce both its operating costs and its carbon footprint. We propose the use of a factored Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) to model and efficiently control a commercial building heating system. We use supervised learning and ground truth data to capture the parameters...

Fostering autonomous learning has become one of the key concerns of course designers and curriculum planners in the last 20 years which has been validated on both ideological and psychological grounds. However, estimating learners’ readiness to accept autonomous education is an important step prior to moving toward autonomous education. Thus, the current research investigated the patterns of au...