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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS"”.
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A hierarchical systems knowledge representation framework
… and analysing knowledge about engineering systems. The hierarchical entity-relation-attribute model is useful for large data sets, in which it can abstract details so that human users are able to reason about the data. The time-series extension to the model abstracts temporal details. …
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Multi-objective optimisation of safety-critical hierarchical systems
… reliability, particularly in safety critical systems, is an important and often mandatory requirement. At the same time costs should be kept as low as possible. Finding an optimum balance between maximising a system's reliability and minimising its cost is a hard combinatorial problem. As the …
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Statistical stability of three and more body hierarchical systems in celestial mechanics
… orbits crossing or bodies escaping dynamical systems altogether. In Chapter 1 a general review of the problem of the Solar System's stability is given along with brief descriptions of methods and definitions of stability which have been used in the past. This thesis studies the stability of …
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Extending the hierarchical systems knowledge representation framework : interfacing with geographic information systems
… and implementation of a geographic information systems framework in which engineering systems can be created and analyzed. This framework extends the hierarchical systems knowledge representation framework to allow geospatial information to be attributed to model objects and viewed within …
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INFERENCE OF HIDDEN HIERARCHIES FROM OBSERVABLE NETWORKS
… computational estimation methods to infer the hierarchical organization of network systems from the observable patterns of interactions among their elements. My formulation is based on the general idea of statistical network reconstruction (Peixoto (2019a)). Current advancements in this area …
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Computational multiscale analysis and optimization of multiphase hierarchical structures within a continuum micromechanics framework
Hierarchical multiphase systems such as plant structures apply the concept of microheterogeneity repetitively across a hierarchy of well-separated length scales: composite microstructures at a smaller scale form the base materials for new microstructures at the next larger scale. Their complex …
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A Bricolage Approach to Cultural Heritage Concerns: Brant, Ontario, Canada/Turtle Island
… and activism. A bricolage approach and systems theoretical paradigm are proposed for the future of cultural institutions. Critical museology aligns with social justice movements, seeking to dismantle hierarchical systems and patriarchal control of resources and knowledge.
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Improved Symbolic Model Checking of Real-Time Systems
… important to verify the correctness of real-time systems before launching them. Although there exist many studies on real-time model checking, it is worth noting that current techniques still encounter the state space explosion problem. The aim of this thesis is to study the symbolic model …
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Directing the Mineralization of Inorganic Nanomaterials using Programmable Macromolecular Building Blocks
… in response to temperature change. For both systems, we study how protein sequence and concentration, solution conditions, and temperature affect mineralization outcomes and plasmonic responses. In collaborative work, we transfer learnings from solid-binding peptides to peptoids by designing …
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HIERARCHICAL-GRANULARITY HOLONIC MODELLING
… agent-based system engineering approach, named Hierarchical-Granularity Holonic Modelling, to support intelligent information processing at multiple granularity levels. The focus is especially on complex hierarchical systems. Nowadays, due to ever growing complexity of information systems and …
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Images of Change: Language and Power in the Works of Toni Morrison
… endows language with the power to transform the hierarchical systems of opperssion currently operating in society, so that her language usage is politically charged, providing a possible map for the dismantling of these systems of oppression and their replacement with egalitarian systems, …
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The modelling and simulation of energy management control systems
… and applicability of building energy management systems(BEMS) simulation tools. The present work attempts to overcome certain inadequacies of contemporary simulation applications with respect to environmental control systems, by developing novel building control systems modelling schemes. These …
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Epistemologies of Imperial Feminism(s): Violence, Colonization, and Sexual (Re)Inscriptions of Empire.
… moral epistemologies in establishing global hierarchical systems. I argue that when situated within the sexual matrices of coloniality, feminist moral regulation knowledge production in Canada institutionalizes hierarchical social ordering through the de-mediation of non-secular agency and …
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Scalable and extensible infrastructures for distributing interoperable Geographic Information Services on the Internet
… to applications based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), especially in the emerging field of the Mobile Internet. Unfortunately, the traditional GIS model falls short of accommodating the requirements and needs of the Internet environment. A more flexible GIS model is required to support …
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Barriers to Community: The Development of an Instrument to Assess Components of Prejudice
… standards, and a belief in the inevitability of hierarchical systems. The study highlighted also the American ambivalence between values of individualism and community. The implications of the study for interventions suggest that an emphasis be placed on the identification and examination of …
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Spirituality in the Laboratory: Negotiating the politics of knowledge in the psychedelic sciences
… productive of the intersecting and historically hierarchical systems of power of race, class, gender and nation. Using discourse analysis techniques, I analyze a documentary archive I created through a theoretically driven sampling of the psychedelic sciences of spirituality from the 1930's to …
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Agoric computation: trust and cyber-physical systems
… the computational perspective of multi-agent systems (MAS) as a technological abstraction married with the engineering perspective of cyber-physical systems (CPS) has provided fertile ground for designing, developing and deploying software applications in smart automated context such as …
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Work as feminist activism: a qualitative case study
… structuring our workplaces to eliminate hierarchical systems of power and control. I examine feminist women who are exemplifying means to empower self, co-workers, and the communities in which they live. The case study analyzes a woman's job in a community service organization as feminist …
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FICCIÓN ESPECULATIVA EN NARRADORES CUBANOS DE LA GENERACIÓN CERO
… research articulate the speculative to denounce systems of oppression. These structures promote the visibility of marginalized characters, drawing representations that become metaphors for the annulment of individual freedoms in today's Cuba. In the first chapter I collect the theoretical and …
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Game-theoretic methods for security and resilience in cyber-physical systems
… critical infrastructures are highly integrated systems composed of many complex interactions between different system modules or agents including cyber and physical components as well as human factors. Their growing complexity demands novel design techniques for scalable and efficient control …
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