http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=94 Full text issues fr Mon, 13 May 2024 16:48:56 +0200 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:14:04 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=94 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2539 The model of the mind in Freud's 1895 'Project' is examined to try and answer the question : what kind of Subject makes anticipation possible ? It is found that it is a divided Subject, one that undergoes the process of repression, and is therefore capable of a certain kind of error. This arises out of two factors. First, the Subject of anticipation is an embodied Subject deriving the force of its will from Triebe. Second, the anticipating Subject arises out of speech acts. It is demonstrated that the biological development of the embodied Subject (maturation) and the inherent ambiguity of language combine to produce repression, and this necessarily, thereby leaving the Subject vulnerable to this specific kind of error : neurotic formations, Ate. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:29:35 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2539 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2545 The article deals with the problem of development of creative thinking. There are different and opposite perspectives in psychology and education analysing the possibilities to train creative thinking of children, adolescence and adults. The authors suggest that it is possible to train creative thinking of children using special creative learning methods and creating special conditions of students learning. The Anticipatory Model of Creative Thinking also is suggested. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:38:19 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2545 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2548 This research shows that pill bugs can actively search for stimuli anticipating elicitation of adaptive behavior in critical conditions. The bugs were placed respectively onto an annulus-shaped substrate surrounded by water. Small obstaclesw. ere introduced at regular intervals in the middle of the annulus. They moved along the edge of the water, touching the obstacles with their antennae repeatedly. Moving along the water is dangerous for them as they risk drowning. Under such a critical condition, they demonstrated an adaptive behavior : mounting the obstacles. We further investigated the time series of antennal touching time on the obstacles, which can be assumed to be related to searching of stimuli. The log-log plots of the cumulative frequency distribution of the touching times showed a power law distribution. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:56:47 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2548 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2556 In general, a formal system is based on reductionism. We, however in this paper, propose a formal system based on pseudo-reductionism. In the system which we propose, each object is variable, and can accumulate information by virtue of the variableness itself. The accumulated information can be exposed afterward. We apply this new concept to the transition of a directed graph, which can be regarded as monologue. In addition, also apply to dialogue-based society model which we already proposed. The dialogue in the model is based on monologues of autonomous agents. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:02:54 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2556 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2562 Consciousness, in particular its nature, is a very elusive notion. It can be felt when one tries to understand the correlation between the objective material aspect of the brain and the subjective mental aspect of consciousness (the explanatory gap). In this contribution we propose an interpretation based on a general metamodel we have developed for complex autonomous systems. We show that self-knowledge (i.e. consciousness) depends on the degree of self-reference of the system. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:08:24 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2562 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2566 Flash-Lag Effect (FLE) is known as a phenomenon in which a moving stimuli position is perceived with a lag relative to a flashing stimuli when the flash appears physically aligned with the moving one. In previous accounts both the moving object and flashing stimuli are unconditionally believed as something to be recognized. In this study, we conducted several experiments for FLE involved the problem of segregation between figure and ground. We found that interaction between moving objects and flashing stimuli as compatibility and complementarity of figure/ground effectively influences FLE. The results show us one aspect of the temporal perception, so that the subjective segregation between internal (as figure) and external (as ground) recognition would drive the time. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:11:59 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2566 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2573 In this paper are presented results of the analyses of the students' profile. The research included a sample of students of the Regional Higher Education Study Centre in Ptuj, Slovenia. The aim of the research is to get the profile of present students in Ptuj, and to anticipate the profile of future students. The knowledge of it is of special importance in order to better understand the situation and needs of students. Based on this knowledge, it is possible to improve study conditions that result in prompt, quality and attractive study of the student. This is also important for identification of the target group of future students. Seventeen questions were used to get data of variables that define profile of students. In the analysis process the descriptive statistics methods were used. Research conclusions will be considered already in drafts of new study courses. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:22:50 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2573 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2579 Our present, which includes both our memory of the past and our anticipation of the future, consists of nested Nows which, on every nesting level, host both retentions and protentions (memory of the past and anticipation of the future). These nested Nows form our observer participant perspective. The degree of attention given to retentions and protentions in our current Nows determines whether our temporal perspective, which is generated by the superposition of nested Nows, focusses more on the past or on the future. Several correlations are described between the balance of retentions and protentions in the Now, perceived temporal speed, temporal dimensions generated, compatibility between levels of description, the observer's mood and perspective and his Now's anticipatory faculty. The common denominator which links these is our nesting speed, i.e., the rate at which we generate Δtdepth. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:27:30 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2579 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2587 The aim of research is - to analyze decision making process under conflict solving situation by using modeling as anticipatory creative way informational analysis by synthesis procedure, paying attention to the process of forgiveness as the most creative decision. Decision making process is informational creative procedure, which is made by neocortex using creative way of analysis by Synthesis or using more general understanding of closed-loop coding-decoding method. In this way we can analyze all ways of decisions as codes of different strategies. In conflict situation neocortex is creating virtual plans for implementation of every possible strategy and according to the results of modeling is choosing one strategy and appropriate plan of tactics of behavior. This is model-based anticipation. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:36:20 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2587 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2589 Apoptosis (programmed cell death) is a very important cellular process that plays an important role in cancer. In this review, we summarize our research in three related areas : (l) Using single living cell analysis techniques to obtain important insight about the signalling mechanisms of apoptosis in mammalian cells. (2) Development of novel molecular bio-sensors for detecting caspase activation within a single living cell based on the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) method. These sensors not only enable us to study the regulating mechanisms of enzyme activation in an in vivo condition, they also provide a powerful tool for high-throughput screening of new drugs. (3) Using such biosensors, we identified several purified compounds in TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) that could be developed into novel anti-cancer drugs. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:42:16 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2589 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2597 This paper deals with anticipatory systems and their use when describing the population dynamics of single species discrete systems. In doing so, it starts from Rosen's original definition of anticipatory system and its extending in the papers of Dubois. Then the concepts of incursion and hyperincursion are briefly explained and their applications to modeling discrete dynamic systems are outlined. A detailed analysis is given of the population model described by the first order difference equation, where the relative population size at future time is a cubic polynomial function of the population size at the present. Consequently, the corresponding in cursive and hyperincursive models are formulated and the stability of their equilibrium solutions (trajectories) is studied. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:55:46 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2597 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2599 Bowtech (the Bowen Technique) is a dynamic system of muscle and connective tissue therapy developed by Ossie and Elaine Rentsch, Victoria, Australia from the work of Tom Bowen. Many health problems, both acute and chronic, were solved worldwide using Bowtech which, most likely, triggers the body's healing mechanisms. As in many other types of treatment, the relation patient - therapist leads to an individual treatment model, based on both the patient and therapist models of the problem(s) to solve. All these three models include anticipatory aspects, related to the future states of both human systems involved - patient and therapist. The paper presents the authors view of Bowtech as an anticipatory system, including relevant examples from the authors practice. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:00:10 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2599 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2610 In this paper we take up the point of symbolic-imaginary anticipation and we combine it with the mirror stage, worked out by Jacques Lacan in numerous publications. We place the mirror stage within its complex temporal framework and explain how the three topological categories (RSI) follow from this most intimate of subjective experiences in the double mirror set up. All kinds of psychopathological mechanisms are traceable to this period in subjective development. Until recently it was impossible to find direct traces of this defining and unchanging moment. Since the beginning of 1990 a new method of therapy was devised in Duffel, named 'lichaamskaart', or body map. We point out the likeness and differences befween the double mirror stage and the construction of the lichaamskaart. In conclusion we illustrate the relationship between anticipatory systems and the therapeutic process involved in lichaamskaart. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:07:55 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2610 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2615 This paper addresses the role of anticipative and retroactive processes in the constitution of the human subject, taking as a guide the psychoanalytical concept of Nachträglichkeit. Firstly, this concept is situated within the Freudian account of psychic temporality. Secondly, it is shown how Lacan applies the concept to the becoming of the subject through language. To illustrate this process, a simplified version of Lacan's "Graph of Desire" is used. Thirdly, a metaphysical counterpart to the principle of Nachträglichkeit is described, the dialectical principle of "tarrying with the negative", as formulated by G. W. F. Hegel. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:12:12 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2615 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2625 The purpose of this article is to explore the idea that experiential colour, i.e. colour as it appears for an observer, functions as a co-constitutive interface of the complex living system. It will be shown that, in order to render this idea intelligible, a new kind of metaphysical perspective is needed. This 'new' metaphysical perspective challenges the metaphysical stance that subscribes, from the viewpoint of a 'participating' observer, to the necessity of the question and the possibility of the answer. In this article, a metaphysical perspective will be proposed that argues, from the viewpoint of a 'contributing' observer, for the necessity of the answer and the possibility of the question. This allows for the possibility (i) to put forward complexity as a necessary answer, (ii) to claim a place for experiential sensoriality that functions as co-constitutive interfaces of the complex living system, and (iii) to secure a place where the philosophical question, or any other question for that matter, can bestow an informative contribution to the answer 'complexity'. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:17:42 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2625 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2632 Gödel's theorems have been used for various ends since their establishment in 1931. One of those ends is that of Robert Rosen in his defence of a new paradigm for biology, assimilating closed causal loops as among others a way to understand anticipatory systems. We will argue how this use of Gödel's theorems arise from Gödel's own Platonist interpretation of the theorems. Next, we will argue against that interpretation from the perspective of dialetheism, which is the statement that contradictions can simply be true. In order to do so, we will emphasize the analogy between the G-sentence in the Gödel theorems and the famous liar-paradox. Finally, we will outline the consequences of this reinterpretation for the argument of Rosen. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:29:05 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2632 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2639 Systems Biology aims to take up the challenge of the post-genome era by developing means to handle the data flood in the contemporary 'omic' sciences. One of the challenges is to 'turn data into knowledge', which gives rise to the question of the functional meaning of the structural data. Systems Biology tries to answer this question by capturing the organisation of a biological system through mathematical and computational modelling. In this regard, however, there is some ambiguity concerning the notions of function, wholeness and system. In this paper, we intend to discuss this ambiguity by analysing the status of modelling in Systems Biology. We do so by articulating the source of the tensions between a relational and a mechanistic approach of living systems, and will inquire upon the potential relevance of a relational account for current Systems Biology. We draw upon Robert Rosen's relational account, in which functionality is an intrinsic and essential part of the organisation of a living system. An organism is complex, e.g. not amenable to a mechanistic, classical or engineering analysis. In this viewpoint, which is quite similar to Kant's, functionality has to be presupposed in order to 'save' the organism as a living system, It is the status of this presupposition that qualitatively distinguishes a mechanistic from a relational account, and it is the potentiality of that idea which deserves further investigation in current Systems Biology. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:33:42 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2639 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2643 Designing a Human Space Autonomous system for the solar system exploration, needs a framework for understanding the processes that a complex project work entails, in particular to think about the interdependencies between individuals and the project and between human and technology. This paper proposes to conceive the Human Exploration system like a cognitive entity able of both a wide range of anticipatory actions and perceptions in different unknowns to forecast environment. Our perspective is that the exploration system needs to exhibit self-learning and reliable aptitudes for self-organisation in unforeseen situations. Our paper proposes to conceive a process and a life oriented matrix able to aggegate different culture and languages in order to face problems for communication and cooperation at the early stage of the project. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:47:38 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2643 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2657 Decision making for Rangeland degradation control is very complicate and strongly need to apply computer and multi criteria analysis. In this study aim is finding the best economical pitting sites for reduction degradation in rangelands. Pitting is a mechanical soil and water conservation by making pits in surface. By storing the rainfall water in pits, vegetation cover will be better and rangelands degradation will be reduced. Hable Roud watershed in north of Iran had many spatial data. The research techniques are multi criteria analysis and decision support. Spatial natural and environmental data is used. Some criteria are needed to find the best economical pitting sites. In this watershed, a model with these spatial factors (sediment yield…), economic factors (proximity to roads…) and constraints (slope less than l0 %…) was designed. These maps were entered to computer and rasterised and by SMCE module in ILWIS software were analyzed. Maps were standardized in value range between 0 till 1. They were weighted by AHP or direct method. Compositing of these prepared layers were done by SMCE. Output was composite index map. This map was classified and prioritized for pitting measwes. This model can help to decision making and measure ends anticipatory be faster, easier and more exactly. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:13:57 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2657 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2733 One of the interesting problems in 0-l programming in operation research science is called "Traveling salesman problem". In this paper two inventional methods for calculating the approximate answer have been surveyed. The first inventional method that has been surveyed is simple and its base is selecting a chain of cities that every selected city has the minimum cost with its previous city. The second inventional method is a little harder and has a special algorithm for selecting the first city and next cities. Both inventional methods are surveyed by simulation. Then it seems that the first inventional method has a big error index but the second inventional method has an acceptable error index and it can accept as a heuristic method. Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:00:13 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2733 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2739 We analyse the dynamics of simple class of neoclassical growth models with time-to-build. Time-to-build comes from the difference between the investment decisions and delivery of finished capital goods, as it was proposed by Tinbergen and Kalecki. This kind of delay in production of capital goods influence the optimal path of consumption of infinitely living economy. The optimal saving and consumption of households is chosen by the social planner in the way of solving the optimization problem with delay. Due to Kolmanovskii and Myshkis (1999) the classical Pontryagin maximum principle of dynamical optimization can be extended on the class of systems with time delay. The Hamiltonian for such systems can be simple constructed and the optimality condition can be derived. As a result we obtain a forward-looking Euler type equation. We compare the dynamics of economic systems with delay with the dynamics of their counterparts without the delay to show that both admit saddle type solutions. The paper points out the importance of the retarded-advanced dynamical systems in the economic theoretical investigations. Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:05:42 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2739 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2741 Based on a random sample from the Weibull distribution with unknown shape and scale parameters, lower and upper prediction limits on a set of m future observations from the same distribution are constructed. The procedures, which arise from considering the distribution of future observations given the observed value of an ancillary statistic, do not require the construction of any tables, and are applicable whether the data are complete or Type II censored. The results have direct application in reliability theory, where the time until the first failure in a group of m items in service provides a measure regarding the operation of the items, as well as in service of fatigue-sensitive aircraft structures to construct strategies of inspections of these structures ; examples of applications are given. Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:11:10 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2741 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2753 What types of organization structure are optimal, if cooperative acts must be achieved ? For resolving this problem, we introduced a game modeling characteristics of organizations, inspired by well-known ecoromist K. J. Arrow in "The Limits of Organization". In this game, each agent gives a mandate to an adviser about his right for decision-making. He tells the adviser his fragments of an anticipation about cooperative acts. The advisers decide act of the agents who gave the mandate to him. The agents get a reward that was calculated by a distance from an optimal act. We used genetic algorithm for dynamics of this game. The network structures of delivering mandates between agents have evolved through three phases : 1) disconnected phase 2) connected phase 3) hub agent phase. Finally, we briefly discussed more abstract model that relates to anticipatory system formulation. Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:25:11 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2753 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2758 Simulation is a powerful tool able to anticipate the behavior of complex systems ; often this ability is used for on-line control strategy in several industrial and civil applications. Models are currently used for supporting next period workload in gas dispatching networks as well as in electrical power generation management. In the process industry (i.e. steel making plants) simulation is the base technique for ensuring proper appointment among different processes (i.e. Ladle Furnaces and Continuous Casting) ; in maritime logistics several applications have been proposed for container yard planning and for mooring optimization. Moreover in the manufacturing sector several applications of Scheduling and Simulating systems are well known. In all such applications on-line simulation has been extensively used for supporting operative decision making. In the proposed application a department store is here controlled by an online simulator devoted to investigate the impact of counter's management policy. In the common practice, in fact, a fixed number of people is used both for counter's staffing and for shelves replenishment. Opening a counter, generally speaking, will divert a worker from shelf replenishment in favor of a reduction in the customer's average time spent in queue, resulting a temporary increase in the stock out risk. The effect of such behavior is delayed and a consequent oscillating path will emerge affecting seriously the performances of a real life department store. The paper presents a reflective simulation model able to simulate such system with an embedded simulator in order to investigate the expected performances of such simulation-in-the-loop control model. Methodology and case study are presented and discussed. Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:48:35 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2758 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2766 The dynamics of the development of socio-economic systems is one of the most essential factors determining the quality of the function of societies, and the knowledge of dynamic pattems of the development and its conditions is crucial for the successful application of anticipatory steering of a society. A novel approach to this dynamics is based on the disclosure of logical relations between socio-political processes and the mathematical structures derived from the Linguistic Theory of Growth. The paper outlines the simple dynamic model of the most encountered bends in the development of societies, which determine the most appropriate procedures for steering of societies. Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:53:05 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2766 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3248 The paper is oriented to a non-standard method of optimizing various systems by means of object-oriented simulation. The substance of the method consists in modeling parallel development of several model variants so that they tend - within an evolutional environment - to the optimum. Each of the variants has its own simulated time and during that time it develops, communicates with the other variants and – being stimulated by them - it modifies its own parameters. The variants that develop in a parallel manner but in different time flows can be realistically interpreted in a "quasi-parallel" manner within a mono processor system ; that enables to reproduce the computing ; certain obstacles related to the quasi-parallelism can be surmounted. The programming technology, system metaphor and application are described. In the project management field the method renders it possible to estimate the real value of a project as an alternative of compound real option approach. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:19:35 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3248 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3254 This paper addresses the influence of information feedback on a decision process supported by a simulation model. A group of 118 graduate students participated in the experiment under four conditions : a1) decision making with application of the simulation model with pretest, a2) decision making with application of the simulation model and group information feedback with pretest, a3) decision making with application of the simulation model without pretest, and a4) decision making with application of the simulation model and group information feedback without pretest. The criteria function and number of simulation runs were observed. The hypothesis that decision-making using a simulation model and group feedback improve criteria function was confirmed. The model of learning during the decision process was developed. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:26:30 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3254 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3260 Present paper address the synchronization classification of discrete agents by the means of z-transform. The developed agent based anticipative model enables us to change the future as well as the past chain of events. Emergent synchronization patterns determined by the application of z-transform provide the base for determination of stability regions in systems of higher complexities. One of the important results provided is that the proposed agent-based system is apparently controllable by considering the frequency response of the system. The proof of the stability for the arbitrary set of proposed anticipatory agents is proposed. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:34:46 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3260 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3266 The purpose of this study is to construct a powerful topography for recording the evolution of any compound system composed of (n) subsystems. The essential idea is based on the fact that any regular (n) polygon (with n sides) acts as a vector operator which transforms the plane in a union of (n) concentric isosceles triangles wherein a complex phasor is inserted. Covariant and contravariant axes are introduced in each phasor to obtain equivalence with Bond-Graphs. In each triangle we can follow the behaviour of the correspondent subsystems by building their power balance. The circular polynomials : Pn(θ) = Πk [ak(θ – k2π/n)] play as an algebraic carrier for the transformation of the plane into a (n) star (with n branches). We represent any system working by a variable power triangle. The system coupling increases the stability, and accordingly we will choose the electrical machine as a particular anticipation modeling. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:42:53 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3266 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3272 Stochastic differential equations are widely used to model noise-affected phenomena in nature, technology and economy (Kloeden et al., 1994). As these equations are usually hard to represent by a computer and hard to resolve we express them in simplified manner. We introduce an approximation by discretization and additive models based on splines. Then, we construct a penalized residual sum of squares (PRSS) for this model. We show when the related minimization program can be written as a Tikhonov regularization problem (ridge regression), and we treat it using continuous optimization techniques. In particular, we apply the elegant framework of conic quadratic programming. Convex optimization problems are very well-structured, resembling linear programs and permit the use of interior point methods (Nesterov & Nemirovskii, 1993). Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:53:07 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3272 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3279 This paper describes innovative, charitable (anticipatory) model of software infrastructure, technical challenges and the rationale of its design that drove the concept. Social models such as the benefactor/beneficiary model of MUlti-agent Distributed Storage Middleware can be successfully applied to many areas as a means of automating a wide range of resource distribution challenges both in traditional and future distributed systems. An environment populated with redundant components can benefit from a charitable entity, allowing possibly wasted resources to be efficiently distributed to the network on a voluntary basis. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:59:53 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3279 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3286 The study of biomimetic robots has been around for a long while ; a particular attention has been given to robots that can operate autonomously in real-world environments. The aim of such robots would be to aid, or replace humans in dangerous or perilous tasks. An example that comes to mind is the bomb disposal, bush fires or detection robot controlled by a human operator. Our challenge in general and especially the focus of this research is to duplicate animal locomotion, and the decision-making processes. By studying the physiological (biological) processes we want to encapsulate this behaviour into readily available software, computer and electro-mechanical technology. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:05:07 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3286 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3291 The paper present a Biomimetic Morphogenetic model of self-organising software infrastructures that uses the egomorphic agents representing conjugate variables embedded in a network. In the proposed model, a conceptual purpose is projected into the self-organising network where nodes are associated with a characteristic variable (force) and at its edges - a dual variable (flux). In the proposed model, the convergent Projection Operator computes the sources of the force by which the sources of the flux and the divergent part that diffuse the flux in the network are computed. The sources of the forces and fluxes can be used to model the network infrastructure context. The dual sources are the tensor dual basis for vectors in non-Euclidean space while the Projection Operator is used to model a biomimetic system. The concept of Egomorphic Agents is used to define a conceptual scheme for modeling biomimetic and allometric software infrastructures. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:09:02 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3291 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3295 Intelligent building it is intelligence subsystems connected by information interfaces. In paper is introduction of a concept and structure of distributed "intelligence" in buildings. The structure of the intelligent building is presented as partly integrated and the full integrated. Integrated Functional Systems were showed. Models of this system are key factor for design and optimization new information structure in intelligence buildings. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:13:03 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3295 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3300 This paper presents steps required to detect a cancer disease based on data obtained from SELDI-TOF-MS. Here, the full process of detection : from raw data, through preprocessing towards classification has been outlined. Importantly, methods and algorithms are presented and described in terms of their usability. Moreover, based on the analysis software developed for the purpose of this work, comparison of classifiers performance based on preprocessing methods is conducted. Finally, guidelines for further research are indicated together with suggestions of how to apply the concept of 24/7 work organization to make the process of development and research faster. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:18:51 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3300 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2538 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:24:01 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2538