It is well known that enhancing interfacial adhesion between inorganic filler and matrix resin in a composite lead to favorable properties such as excellent mechanical properties, high thermal resistance, prominent electric insulation, low expansion coefficient, and so on. But it should be avoided that much excess of coupling agent is reacted due to a negative impact of their final composite’s ...

Loosely coupled multi-agent systems are perceived as easier to plan for because they require less coordination between agent sub-plans. In this paper we set out to formalize this intuition. We establish an upper bound on the complexity of multi-agent planning problems that depends exponentially on two parameters quantifying the level of agents’ coupling, and on these parameters only. The first ...

This study uses the melt compounding method to produce polypropylene (PP)/short glass fibers (SGF) composites. PP serves as matrix while SGF serves as reinforcement. Two coupling agents, maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene, (PP-g-MA) and maleic anhydride grafted styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene block copolymer (SEBS-g-MA) are incorporated in the PP/SGF composites during the compounding proc...

several types of hybrid catalysts are made through mixing of 4th generation ziegler-natta (zn) and (2-phind)2zrcl2metallocene catalysts using triethylaluminum (tea) as coupling agent. response surface methodology (rsm)is used to evaluate the interactive effects of different parameters including amounts of metallocene and tea andtemperature on metallocene loading. analyzing the amounts of al and...

Frameworks for cooperative multiagent decision making may be divided into those where each agent is assigned a single variable (SVFs) and those where each agent carries an internal model, which can be further divided into loosely coupled frameworks (LCFs) and tightly coupled frameworks (TCFs). In TCFs, agent communication interfaces render their subuniverses conditionally independent. In LCFs, ...

The MiViPoRo framework offers a general systematization of knowledge in domains where work involves the interaction of processes in both the physical domain and the information infrastructure. For the domain of engineering and manufacturing the framework assumes a division into two sub-domains and four activity-layers. The sub-domains are the cybernetic domain and the physical domain. The activ...

The transformation of energy networks from passive to active systems requires the embedding of intelligence within the network. One suitable approach to integrating distributed intelligent systems is multi-agent systems technology, where components of functionality run as autonomous agents capable of interaction through messaging. This provides loose coupling between components that can benefit...