This thesis aims to explore and demonstrate the ability of the new standard of structural and behavioural components in Unified Modelling Language (UML 2.0 / 2004) to model the learning behaviour of Intelligent Agents. The thesis adopts the research direction that views agent-oriented systems as an extension to object-oriented systems. In view of the fact that UML has been the de facto standard...

Enhancement of the response of reinforced concrete (RC) beams using fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement bars has become a popular structural technique over the past two decades due to the well-known advantages of FRP composites including their high strength-to-weight ratio and excellent corrosion resistance. Thisstudy presents n...

Mechanical stimulation is known to cause alterations in the behaviour of cells adhering to a substrate. The mechanisms by which forces are transduced into biological responses within the cell remain largely unknown. Since cellular deformation is likely involved, further understanding of the biomechanical origins of alterations in cellular response can be aided by the use of computational models...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of variation of polypropylene fibres ranging from 0.1% to 0.4% along with 0.8% steel fibres on the behaviour of fibrous concrete. The mechanical properties of the concrete such as compressive and tensile strength have been investigated. The result shows that addition of polypropylene fibre has a little effect on the compressive strength,...

The thermo-mechanical behaviour of concrete energy pile foundations with different single and double U-tube shapes incorporated was analysed using the Comsol Multi-physics package. For the analysis, a 3D numerical model in real scale of the concrete pile and surrounding soil was simulated regarding actual operation of ground heat exchangers (GHE) and the surrounding ambient temperature. Based o...

An important challenge of the Information System research field is to facilitate the designer the task of conceptual specification. Our aim is to contribute in this direction by facilitating the behavioural specification component of this task. Our approach is based on providing a set of semantically enriched structural events for a given Information Base schema and using them to simplify the d...

The Competitive Queuing (CQ) approach to the generation of serial order views sequential behaviour as the result of competition between a set of alternative responses all activated in parallel. This type of model can show a general error pattern when damaged which is very like that of psychological subjects in several different modalities and paradigms. However, many forms of serial behaviour a...

Primljeno (Received): 2011-10-10 Prihvaćeno (Accepted): 2011-12-21 Original scientific paper Dynamical systems contain nonlinear relations which are difficult to model with conventional techniques. Hence, efficient nonlinear models are needed for system analysis, optimization, simulation and diagnosis of nonlinear systems. In recent years, computational-intelligence techniques such as neural ne...