With China’s imminent entry into the World Trade Organization, the deregulation of the Japanese insurance market, and the liberalization of Indian insurance regulations, Asia is poised to become a major insurance magnet over the next decade. Foreign companies able to capitalize on the recent increased openness of the Asian markets stand to reap substantial profits. However, companies entering t...

Proactive information sharing is a challenging issue faced by intelligence agencies in effectively making critical decisions under time pressure in areas related to homeland security. Motivated by psychological studies on human teams , a team-oriented agent architecture -CAST (Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork), was implemented to allow agents in a team to anticipate the information ...

Background: When a fetus is diagnosed with facial deformities, most Chinese couples choose to terminate the pregnancy. However, these commonly regret their decision after termination of pregnancy, display heavier degree grief, and feelings persist for long time. The purpose this study was investigate factors that influence parental pregnancy decisions regarding fetuses non-syndromic orofacial c...

This article proposes a peer-to-peer transactive multiresource trading framework for multiple multienergy microgrids. In this framework, the interconnected microgrids not only fulfil demands of with local hybrid biogas-solar-wind renewables, but also proactively trade their available and communication resources each other delivering secured high quality services. The multimicrogrid is an intrac...

To increase the energy utilization efficiency, it becomes fairly promising to convert surplus electricity from renewable generation other forms of for multi-dimensional consumption. In this paper, we propose a hybrid scheduling model multi-energy microgrid with integration hydrogen storage system (HESS) and heat (HSS). our study, operational uncertainties induced by renewables loads (including ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been widely used in supporting the logistics management on manufacturing shopfloors where production resources attached with RFID facilities are converted into smart manufacturing objects (SMOs) which are able to sense, interact, and reason to create a ubiquitous environment. Within such environment, enormous data could be collected and used for support...

Earth System Science (ESS) research and applications often involve in collecting, analyzing and modeling with distributed heterogeneous geospatial data. Those data are processed step-by-step in geospatial analysis systems to extract information and knowledge products for applications and decision makings. Conceptually, such a step-by-step process forms a geospatial processing model that represe...