Search results for " Methodology"

Modelling and Simulation in Science, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy >

2007

Tecniche di ottimizzazione multi-obiettivo e metodologie di supporto alle decisioni per la progettazione di processi di stampaggio di lamiere

2010

Agile PASSI: An agile process for designing agents

2006

We have been developing robotic multi-agent systems for several years according to a well defined methodology (PASSI) obtaining good results, but day by day needs of a more versatile approach for designing software in a research context suggested us to find out a new methodology. A solution to our problems is represented by the Agile version of the PASSI methodology we present in this paper. We built this agile methodology by exploiting all the experiences done with conventional PASSI; it is supported by specific tools allowing patterns reuse and automatic production of some design documentation.

An Approach for the Design of Self-conscious Agent for Robotics

2010

Developing complex robotic systems endowed with self- conscious abilities and subjective experience is a hard requirement to face at design time. This paper deals with the development of robotic systems that do not own any a-priori knowledge of the environment they live in and proposes an agent-orientd design process for modelling and implementing such a systems by means of implementing the perception loop occurring between environment, body and brain during subjective experience. A case study dealing with a robocup setup is proposed in order to describe the design process activities and to illustrate the techniques for making the robot able to autonomously decide when an unknown situations…

Metamodel-based metrics for agent-oriented methodologies

2012

A great number of methodologies has been already intro duced in the agent-oriented software engineering field. Recently many of the authors of these methodologies also worked on their fragmentation thus obtaining portions (often called method or process fragments) that may be composed into new methodologies. The great advancement in this field, however does not correspond to equivalent results in the evaluation of the methodologies and their fragments. It is, for instance, difficult to select a fragment in the composition of a new methodology and to predict the methodology’s resulting features. This work introduces a suite of metrics for evaluating and comparing entire methodologies but als…

Daniel Barbu, Philippe Borgeaud, Mélanie​ Lozat, Nicolas Meylan, Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel (ed.), Le savoir des religions : fragments d'historiograp…

2015

Recensione del volume di Daniel Barbu, Philippe Borgeaud, Mélanie​ Lozat, Nicolas Meylan, Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel (ed.), Le savoir des religions : fragments d'historiographie religieuse. Gallion: Infolio Editions, 2014. Il volume mostra le diverse declinazioni attraverso cui il “sapere delle religioni” si costruisce oppure entra, in momenti particolari, in crisi o partecipa a più ampi processi di ristrutturazione dell’orizzonte di senso è dunque lo scopo principale di quest’opera, che si articola in tre sezioni, ciascuna delle quali si concentra su un differente grado di riflessività dei saperi “religiosi”.

Review of Marcel Boumans and Matthias Klaes (eds) (2013). Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar

2015

Mark Blaug passed away on November 18, 2011. To honor his memory, two events were held in March 2012: a Memorial Conference at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Rotterdam (NL), and a seminar hosted by the Scottish Centre for Economic Methodology at the University of Glasgow (UK). As Marcel Boumans and Matthias Klaes point out in their editorial Introduction, this book contains a collection of papers given at these two events and includes some additional papers submitted by people who were not able to attend the meetings “at such short notice” (p. 5). In addition, the book carries a Foreword by Alan Peacock and consists of two parts: part I has four chapters—written by John…

Survey, tourism

2015

A survey is any organized and methodical activity that directly collects information on motivations, opinions, and behaviors about the characteristics of a given population, including tourists and residents of a destination. This article provides a description of the stages required when implementing a survey, for the Encyclopedia of Tourism, placing peculiar attention to the context of tourism.

Analysis of stamping performances of dual phase steels: A multi-objective approach to reduce springback and thinning failure

2009

The industrial interest on light weight components has contributed in the last years to a significant research effort on new materials able to guarantee high mechanical properties, good formability and reasonable costs together with reduced weights when compared to traditional mild steels. Among such materials advanced high strength steels (AHSS) such as transformations induced plasticity (TRIP) and dual phase (DP), and light weight alloys proved their usefulness in stamping of automotive components. As AHSS are concerned, one of the main drawbacks is related to springback occurrence. Many aspects have to be taken into account when springback reduction is investigated: material behavior iss…

Causal inference in geosciences with kernel sensitivity maps

2020

Establishing causal relations between random variables from observational data is perhaps the most important challenge in today's Science. In remote sensing and geosciences this is of special relevance to better understand the Earth's system and the complex and elusive interactions between processes. In this paper we explore a framework to derive cause-effect relations from pairs of variables via regression and dependence estimation. We propose to focus on the sensitivity (curvature) of the dependence estimator to account for the asymmetry of the forward and inverse densities of approximation residuals. Results in a large collection of 28 geoscience causal inference problems demonstrate the…