Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) issued an order recently requiring that all hospitals have an evacuation plan with the following components: sheltering plan,...
Life cycle cost is an essential approach to decide on alternative rehabilitation strategies for infrastructure systems. Monte Carlo simulation approach is used to develop a stocha...
The human behavior modeling community has traditionally been divided into those addressing individual behavior models, and those addressing organizational and team models. And yet...
With the properties of autonomy, social ability, reactivity and pro-activeness, agents can be used to represent entities in distributed simulations, where fast and accurate decisi...
We propose a sparse non-negative image coding based on simulated annealing and matrix pseudo-inversion. We show that sparsity and non-negativity are both important to obtain part-...