Modeling Multi-Level Systems

Modeling Multi-Level Systems
Author: Octavian Iordache
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642179452

This book is devoted to modeling of multi-level complex systems, a challenging domain for engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs, confronted with the transition from learning and adaptability to evolvability and autonomy for technologies, devices and problem solving methods. Chapter 1 introduces the multi-scale and multi-level systems and highlights their presence in different domains of science and technology. Methodologies as, random systems, non-Archimedean analysis, category theory and specific techniques as model categorification and integrative closure, are presented in chapter 2. Chapters 3 and 4 describe polystochastic models, PSM, and their developments. Categorical formulation of integrative closure offers the general PSM framework which serves as a flexible guideline for a large variety of multi-level modeling problems. Focusing on chemical engineering, pharmaceutical and environmental case studies, the chapters 5 to 8 analyze mixing, turbulent dispersion and entropy production for multi-scale systems. Taking inspiration from systems sciences, chapters 9 to 11 highlight multi-level modeling potentialities in formal concept analysis, existential graphs and evolvable designs of experiments. Case studies refer to separation flow-sheets, pharmaceutical pipeline, drug design and development, reliability management systems, security and failure analysis. Perspectives and integrative points of view are discussed in chapter 12. Autonomous and viable systems, multi-agents, organic and autonomic computing, multi-level informational systems, are revealed as promising domains for future applications. Written for: engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs and students in chemical, pharmaceutical, environmental and systems sciences engineering, and for applied mathematicians.

Multi-Level Methods in Lubrication

Multi-Level Methods in Lubrication
Author: C.H. Venner
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2000-07-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 008053709X

Efficient numerical solution of realistic and, therefore, complex equation systems occupies many researchers in many disciplines. For various reasons, but mainly in order to approximate reality, a very large number of unknowns are needed. Using classical techniques, the solution of such a system of equations would take too long, and so sometimes MultiLevel techniques are used to accelerate convergence. Over the last one and a half decades, the authors have studied the problem of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication, governed by a complex integro-differential equation. Their work has resulted in a very efficient and stable solver. In this book they describe the different intermediate problems analyzed and solved, and how those ingredients finally come together in the EHL solver. A number of these intermediate problems, such as Hydrodynamic Lubrication and Dry Contact, are useful in their own right. In the Appendix the full codes of the Poisson problem, the Hydrodynamic Lubrication problem, the dry contact solver and the EHL solver are given. These codes are all written in 'C' language, based on the 'ANSI-C' version.

Optimal Human Being

Optimal Human Being
Author: Kennon M. Sheldon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004-09-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1135636257

The phrase "optimal human being" is used to refer to the empirically documented features that tend to characterize high-quality human functioning. "Optimal human being" is a profile that is developed within this book by consulting what contemporary theorizing at different levels of analysis might have to say about what causes a optimal functioning

Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences

Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences
Author: Emmanuel Lazega
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2015-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319245201

This volume provides new insights into the functioning of organizational, managerial and market societies. Multilevel analysis and social network analysis are described and the authors show how they can be combined in developing the theory, methods and empirical applications of the social sciences. This book maps out the development of multilevel reasoning and shows how it can explain behavior, through two different ways of contextualizing it. First, by identifying levels of influence on behavior and different aggregations of actors and behavior, and complex interactions between context and behavior. Second, by identifying different levels as truly different systems of agency: such levels of agency can be examined separately and jointly since the link between them is affiliation of members of one level to collective actors at the superior level. It is by combining these approaches that this work offers new insights. New case studies and datasets that explore new avenues of theorizing and new applications of methodology are presented. This book will be useful as a reference work for all social scientists, economists and historians who use network analyses and multilevel statistical analyses. Philosophers interested in the philosophy of science or epistemology will also find this book valuable. ​

Science in the Beginning

Science in the Beginning
Author: Jay Wile
Publisher:
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989042406

Science in the context of the seven days of creation presented in the Bible. This textbook uses activities to reinforce scientific principles presented.

100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum

100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
Author: Cathy Duffy
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780805431384

A critical volume for the homeschooling community that helps parents make informed choices regarding learning styles and curriculum