The self-organizing map (SOM) model is a well-known neural network model with wide spread of applications. The main characteristics of SOM are two-fold, namely dimension reduction and topology preservation. Using SOM, a high-dimensional data space will be mapped to some low-dimensional space. Meanwhile, the topological relations among data will be preserved. With such characteristics, the SOM w...

Multi-agents systems and holonic manufacturing systems are suitable approaches to design a new and alternative class of production control systems, based on the decentralization of control functions over distributed autonomous and cooperative entities. However, in spite of their enormous potential they lack some aspects related to interoperability, migration, optimisation in decentralised struc...

This paper presents a novel mechanism for selforganization of structure among documents based on process-oriented relations. Process-oriented relations represent operations and temporal distance between uses of documents in users’ working processes. A complex network of process-oriented relations is rearranged as a multi-layered document network (MLDN) with a recursive hypergraph structure. The...

Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), as a traditional organic hole-transporting material (HTM), is widely used in thin-film solar cells due to its high charge mobility and good thermal stability. However, the P3HT films obtained by method are amorphous, which unfavorable hole extraction transport. Here, low-toxicity solvent 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (TMB) was instead of commonly halogen chlorobenzene (C...

Multilevel hierarchical control has been placed in a well-defined conceptual and mathematical framework in the sixties and culminated in the publication of the book by Mesarovic et al. (1970). The concept of hierarchy was clarified by identifying three notions of levels: • The organizational level, the echelon. Much of the work in control systems and in organization theory deals with the first ...

In this chapter, we present a framework for the design of agent societies that considers the influence of social organizational aspects on the functionality and objectives of the agent society and specifies the development steps for the design and development of an agent-based system for a particular domain. Our approach will provide a generic frame that directly relates to the organizational p...

Organization-oriented analysis acts as the key step and foundation in building organization-oriented methodology (OOM) to engineer multi-agent systems especially open complex agent systems (OCAS). A number of existing approaches target OOM, while they are incompatible with each other, and none of them is available as a solid and practical tool for engineering OCAS. This paper summarizes our inv...

Business collaboration encompasses the coordination of information flows among organizations as well as the composition of their business processes toward mutual benefits. While integrating business processes of different organizations seamlessly, it brings great challenges to keep participating organizations as autonomous entities. To address this issue, we propose a new perspective on modelin...