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AICOM
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Using exogenous quantities in qualitative models about environmental sustainability
Representing the impact of external factors on the behaviour of a system is a challenge for modellers, particularly when these factors are dynamic and may change during the simulat...
Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles, Tim Nuttle
CDVE
2008
Springer
197views Visualization» more  CDVE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
3D Reconstruction of Large Scale City Models as a Support to Sustainable Development
No part of the economic community can now escape from the urgent issues related to global warming, carbon footprint and reducing energy consumption. Nevertheless, the construction ...
Jean-Philippe Pons, Souheil Soubra
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A discrete event simulation model for examining future sustainability of Canadian Forces operations
This paper presents a proof-of-concept discrete-event simulation model for examining the ability of the Canadian Forces (CF) to sustain operations, from a human resources perspect...
Patricia Moorhead, Andrew Wind, Mira Halbrohr
GECCO
2004
Springer
132views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Robust and Efficient Genetic Algorithms with Hierarchical Niching and a Sustainable Evolutionary Computation Model
This paper proposes a new niching method named hierarchical niching, which combines spatial niching in search space and a continuous temporal niching concept. The method is natural...
Jianjun Hu, Erik D. Goodman
MIE
2008
112views Healthcare» more  MIE 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Reusing Models of Actors and Services in Smart Homecare to Improve Sustainability
: Industrial countries are faced with a growing elderly population. Homecare systems with assistive smart house technology enable elderly to live independently at home. Development...
Ståle Walderhaug, Erlend Stav, Marius Mikals...