Many fires and explosions happen in tank farm. A fire and explosion simulation method based on VR is used. Tank fire and explosion special effect is realized by classical particle system. The real-time fire growth model, fireball growth model, fireball heat radiation model are created. The shock wave model of BLEVE also is created. The models and results of FDS (Fire Dynamic Simulator) are buil...

Research into the capability of recursive self-improvement typically only considers pairs of 〈agent, self-modification candidate〉, and asks whether the agent can determine/prove if the self-modification is beneficial and safe. But this leaves out the much more important question of how to come up with a potential self-modification in the first place, as well as how to build an AI system capable...

This white paper postulates that the information technology revolution that is commonly referred to as the Information Age is currently in a transition stage between data-processing and knowledge management that should be more aptly referred to as the Data Age. Symptoms of this transition stage are a data deluge problem that is evidenced by the inability of human computerusers to effectively an...

This paper provides an overview of the needs and threats for digital preservation and summarizes the findings from project PARSE.Insight. This project, co-funded by the EU, contains one of the first large worldwide surveys about digital preservation including most players of the STM information chain: researchers, libraries, data managers, publishers, and research funders. One of the conclusion...