Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a general framework that can model a large class of Multi-agent Coordination Problems (MCPs). We propose a novel message-passing algorithm, the so-called Action-GDL, as an extension to the Generalized Distributive Law algorithm to efficiently solve MCPs. We show the generality of Action-GDL by proving that it has DPOP, the low-complexity,...

In this paper we made three main contributions (fully detailed in [5]). Firstly, we formulate a new algorithm, the so-called Action-GDL, that takes inspiration from GDL [1], extending and applying it to Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs). Secondly, we show the generality of Action-GDL showing how it generalizes DPOP[4], one of the low complexity, state-of-the-art algorithm to ...

In the current work, we present a comprehensive modeling framework to predict the effective gas diffusivity, as a function of liquid water saturation, based on realistic 3-D microstructures of the uncompressed as well as compressed gas diffusion layer (GDL). The presented approach combines the generation of a virtual microscopic GDL and different physical modeling. We develop a reduced model in...

Study refers comparison of three methods for glucose determination - precision (repeatability, reproducibility), traceability to SRM 965a NIST, comparability in blood-pools and in patients' samples: Electrochemical determination on Super GL (DiaSys, Germany) in hemolyzate - GL method, spectrophotometric determination using hexokinase (Glucose System Reagent 800, Olympus) - HKL method - and usin...

We present an experimental approach to study the three-dimensional microstructure of gas diffusion layer (GDL) materials under realistic compression conditions. A dedicated compression device was designed that allows for synchrotron-tomographic investigation of circular samples under well-defined compression conditions. The tomographic data provide the experimental basis for stochastic modeling...

of the Dissertation Recent technological advances have fostered the emergence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which consist of tiny, wireless, battery-powered nodes that are expected to revolutionize the ways in which we understand and construct complex physical systems. A fundamental property needed to use and maintain these WSNs is “localization”, which allows the establishment of spatial...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact on young driver crashes of the three main driving restrictions in the New Zealand graduated driver licensing (GDL) system: night-time curfew, no carrying of young passengers, and a blood alcohol limit of 30 mg/100 ml. METHOD The database for this study was created by linking police crash reports to hospital inpatient records (1980-95). Multivariate logistic r...

The object in this study is to investigate the effects of high pressure and freezing processes on the curdling of skim milk depending on the presence of transglutaminase (TGase) and glucono-δ-lactone (GdL). Skim milk was treated with atmospheric freezing (AF), high pressure (HP), pressure-shift freezing (PSF) and high pressure sub-zero temperature (HPST) processing conditions. After freezing an...

Water management in gas diffusion layer (GDL) and micro porous layer (MPL) poses a great impact on performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). And enhancement of the performance of fuel cells requires an appropriate water balance between the conservation of membrane humidity and the discharge of excess water produced in the cell. The Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) can enable mo...

The gas diffusion layer (GDL) is vital to the performance and durability of direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). The GDL plays an important role in water management, catalyst efficiency and conductivity of DMFC. The GDL consists of a carbon substrate that can either be woven or non-woven. The various substrates used to produce GDLs result in very different physical characteristics, particularly su...