in this paper, we present a genetic algorithm (ga) for optimization of a multi-mode resource constrained time cost trade off (mrctct) problem. the proposed ga, each activity has several operational modes and each mode identifies a possible executive time and cost of the activity. beyond earlier studies on time-cost trade-off problem, in mrctct problem, resource requirements of each execution mo...

to determine the usefulness of the time intervals obtained from the first derivative of apex cardiogram (da/dt) in assessing contraction and relaxation, 20 hemodynamically and angiographical1y investigated patients with coronary artery disease and 29 patients with hypertensive heart disease were studied. as a control group there were used 50 normal subjects. since contraction and relaxation is ...

This paper illustrates how a computational linguistic model of phonology, incorporating statistical phonological/phonetic information, implemented in a multi-agent architecture, can contribute to robustness in speech technology applications. This work represents a novel extension to the Time Map model [1] retaining the main attributes of the model but recasting the architecture in terms of a mu...

msec (p=0.04) with a concomitant decrease in IVRT from 74±18 to 38±8 msec (p=0.03). During decreased inotropy (by propranolol infusion) at constant preload, slowing of relaxation was indicated by an increase in T from 40±8 to 51±+13 msec (p=0.02) with a concomitant increase in IVRT from 71±+15 to 83+±21 msec (p<0.05). A significant correlation between changes in and changes in IVRT was found (r...

In this paper, three-dimensional (3D) multi-relaxation time (MRT) lattice-Boltzmann (LB) models for multiphase flow are presented. In contrast to the Bhatnagar-GrossKrook (BGK) model, a widely employed kinetic model, in MRT models the rates of relaxation processes owing to collisions of particle populations may be independently adjusted. As a result, the MRT models offer a significant improveme...

This paper describes a novel feature tracking method. It is based on an interframe relaxation technique. This method combines intra-frame and inter-frame constraints on the behaviour of acceptable contour structure. The intra-frame information is represented by both a dictionary of local contour structure and a statistical model of the response of a set of directional feature detection operator...

The role of social commitments in distributed, multi-agent planning and plan execution will be discussed in this article. We argue agents’ capability to reason about the actions in the form of social commitments directly improving robustness of the plans in dynamic, multi-actor environment. We focused on relaxation decommitment strategy, targeted specifically to the time interval in which the a...

The lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has become a standard tool for estimating porous medium permeabilities from image data and numerically generated packings. We consider implementations of the single-relaxation time BGK scheme for single phase flow as well as a more computationally intensive multi-relaxation time (MRT) scheme. Results demonstrate that a considerable performance increase is achi...