The EURACE project was one of the important research collaborations in the field of agent-based modeling of economic systems. Its target was to create an agent-based model and tools aimed at policy makers for use in macro-economic modelling and economic policy design at the European level. In this paper we report experiences and progress from the EURACE project, and summarize problems that need...

Despite the tremendous development in CNC programming facilities, linear and circular cuts parallel to the coordinate planes continue to be the standard motions of modern CNC machines. However, the increasing industrial demand for parts with intricate shapes cannot be satisfied with only these standard motions. The proportion of parts which are not covered by the standard CNC motions is certain...

Femtocells are miniature base stations (BS) improving cellular service typically within indoor environments such as homes or enterprise buildings. Analyzing femtocell performance and interference impact on the macro network requires the use of detailed RF propagation modeling, particularly in scenarios where user mobility is involved. This paper addresses this requirement by developing such mod...

An efficient method of parallel fault simulation for combinational circuits is proposed. The method is based on structurally synthesized BDDs (SSBDD) which allow to represent gate level circuits at higher macro level where macros represent subnetworks of gates. Converting the gate-level circuits to the macrolevel is accompanied with corresponding fault collapsing. A parallel fault analysis algo...

This paper presents a comprehensive CAD environment for MEMS/MST design. The design flow includes MEMS mechanical schematic entry, parameterized cell layout generation, LVS style error checking, lumped parameter macro-model generation, and system level modeling of the micro-system. The design environment also provides error checking between different design views. The implemented macromodel ext...

This paper presents the StateML tool aimed at designing statemachines and automatically generating thread-safe and multi-tasking modular Ada code from them, following a Model-Driven Engineering approach. The StateML meta-model is an extension of a previous version, and now it offers improved modeling capabilities, which include regions and macro-state definition. In this paper, a case study reg...

This paper characterizes the downlink transmission power for WCDMA networks in multiservice environments for both urban and suburban macro cells. To calculate the required transmission power for the user in the cell, various modeling approaches are used to investigate the orthogonality, the path loss, and the inter-cell interference ratio of the user. The variation and scattering pattern of the...

Writing a computer program for modeling multi-state disease process for cancer or chronic disease is often an arduous and time-consuming task. We have developed a SAS macro program for estimating the transition parameters in such models using SAS IML. The program is very flexible and enables the user to specify homogeneous and non-homogeneous (i.e. Weibull distribution, log-logistic, etc.) Mark...

This paper deals with the modeling of gas-liquid flow in distillation columns equipped with structured packing. The devices are seen as bi-structured porous media and a macro-scale model is proposed taking into account this specific geometry. In this model, the two liquid films, one-per-sheet, are treated separately and are allowed to exchange matter at the vicinity of the contact points betwee...

The design of Integrated Circuit ASICs and SoCs typically relies on the availability of a library consisting of predefined components called technology cells. Silicon vendors use proprietary formats to describe technology cells and macro modules in conjunction with numerous translators to feed technology library data to Electronic Design Automation EDA tools. Multiple grammar formats are used t...