To many people, home is a sanctuary. For those people who need special medical care, they may need to be pulled out of their home to meet their medical needs. As the population ages, the percentage of people in this group is increasing and the effects are expensive as well as unsatisfying. We hypothesize that many people with disabilities can lead independent lives in their own homes with the a...

I am interested but worried about the development of this relatively new class of models which tend to fight against very long standing principles in science that seek for simplicity in abstraction and application. Agent-based models (ABM) have developed for spatial systems through advances in computing that enable distinct objects to be defined with respect to their behaviours which in turn su...

Research comparing centralized and decentralized coordination schemes is often contradictory. For example, Oskar Lange (1969) among others points out that the centralized coordination scheme can outperform decentralized schemes while Arrow and Debreu (1954) show otherwise. This paper focuses on this issue in the context of agent-based marketplaces. Specifically, we use a computational approach ...

Collective cell spreading takes place in spatially continuous environments, yet it is often modelled using discrete lattice-based approaches. Here, we use data from a series of cell proliferation assays, with a prostate cancer cell line, to calibrate a spatially continuous individual based model (IBM) of collective cell migration and proliferation. The IBM explicitly accounts for crowding effec...

We present an extension to IBM Model 1 for training word-to-word lexicon probabilities. This model takes into account a given fixed segmentation of the source and target sentences in the estimation of the statistical dictionary. Our experimentation on the Europarl corpus shows that a statistical consistent improvement in the translation quality can be achieved by including our proposed model as...

introduction: studies have indicated a global high prevalence of hospital malnutrition on admission and during hospitalization. clinical nutritional risk screen (cnrs) is a way to identify malnutrition and manage nutritional interventions. several traditional and non-computer based tools have been suggested for screening nutritional risk levels. the present study was an attempt to employ a comp...

Programming for large-scale, multicore-based architectures requires adequate tools that offer ease of programming and do not hinder application performance. StarSs is a family of parallel programming models based on automatic function-level parallelism that targets productivity. StarSs deploys a data-flow model: it analyzes dependencies between tasks and manages their execution, exploiting thei...

The classical susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model, originated from the seminal papers of Ross [51] and Ross and Hudson [52,53] in 1916-1917 and the fundamental contributions of Kermack and McKendrick [36-38] in 1927-1932, describes the transmission of infectious diseases between susceptible and infective individuals and provides the basic framework for almost all later epidemic models,...