abstract background and aims: one of the complications of breast cancer treatment is ipsilateral upper extremity lymphedema. secondary lymphedema is a chronic condition that leads to loss of function and disorder of quality of life. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of complex decongestive physical therapy (cdp) on pain severity and quality of life in patients with secondary upp...

Climate Change poses a problem that should be tackled taking into consideration the interaction between science and policy. Meanwhile scientists’ expectations about the emergence of the problem [7], the scope, the duration and its plausible consequences are not completely defined. This is because the processes involved in climate are not totally understood and the level of uncertainty is remark...

The management on construction projects and organizations is very important. However it is poorly understood considering the declining performance of construction industry. Managing and predicting the work performance of a construction organization tends to be extremely difficult using conventional management approaches. This paper regards construction as a complex system and proposes the use o...

We introduce Complex Automata, a generic methodology to model multi-scale complex systems. A Complex Automaton is a scalable hierarchical aggregation of Cellular Automata and agent-based models, each modelling components of the Complex System. The components represent a sub-system operating on its typical spatial and temporal scales. The concept of a scale map is introduced to identify componen...

Multi-Agent System (MAS) is an interesting way to create models and simulators and is widely used to model complex systems. As the complex system community tends to build up larger models to fully represent real systems, the need for computing power raise significantly. Thus MAS often lead to long computing intensive simulations. Parallelizing such a simulation is complex and it execution requi...