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The FermiâPastaâUlam Problem and Its Underlying Integrable Dynamics: An Approach Through Lyapunov Exponents
open3noFPU models, in dimension one, are perturbations either of the linear model or of the Toda model; perturbations of the linear model include
the usual -model, perturbations of Toda include the usual model. In this paper we explore and compare two
families, or hierarchies, of FPU models, closer and closer to either the linear or the Toda model, by computing numerically, for each
model, the maximal Lyapunov exponent . More precisely, we consider statistically typical trajectories and study the asymptotics
of for large (the number of particles) and small (the specific energy ), and find, for all models, asymptotic
power laws , and depending on the model. The asymptotics turns out to be, in general, rather slow, and
producing accurate results requires a great computational effort. We also revisit and extend the analytic computation of introduced
by Casetti, Livi and Pettini, originally formulated for the -model. With great evidence the theory extends successfully to
all models of the linear hierarchy, but not to models close to Toda.openBenettin, G.*; Pasquali, S.; Ponno, A.Benettin, G.; Pasquali, S.; Ponno, A
RELEASE: A High-level Paradigm for Reliable Large-scale Server Software
Erlang is a functional language with a much-emulated model for building reliable distributed systems. This paper outlines the RELEASE project, and describes the progress in the first six months. The project aim is to scale the Erlangâs radical concurrency-oriented programming paradigm to build reliable general-purpose software, such as server-based systems, on massively parallel machines. Currently Erlang has inherently scalable computation and reliability models, but in practice scalability is constrained by aspects of the language and virtual machine. We are working at three levels to address these challenges: evolving the Erlang virtual machine so that it can work effectively on large scale multicore systems; evolving the language to Scalable Distributed (SD) Erlang; developing a scalable Erlang infrastructure to integrate multiple, heterogeneous clusters. We are also developing state of the art tools that allow programmers to understand the behaviour of massively parallel SD Erlang programs. We will demonstrate the effectiveness of the RELEASE approach using demonstrators and two large case studies on a Blue Gene
A theory of the city as object: or, how spatial laws mediate the social construction of urban space
A series of recent papers (Hillier et al 1993, Hillier 1996b, Hillier 2000) have outlined a generic
process by which spatial configurations, through their effect on movement, first shape, and
then are shaped by, land use patterns and densities. The aim of this paper is to make the
spatial dimension of this process more precise. The paper begins by examining a large
number of axial maps, and finds that although there are strong cultural variations in different
regions of the world, there are also powerful invariants. The problem is to understand how
both cultural variations and invariants can arise from the spatial processes that generate cities.
The answer proposed is that socio-cultural factors generate the differences by imposing a
certain local geometry on the local construction of settlement space, while micro-economic
factors, coming more and more into play as the settlement expands, generate the invariants
An Unsupervised Deep Learning Approach for Scenario Forecasts
In this paper, we propose a novel scenario forecasts approach which can be
applied to a broad range of power system operations (e.g., wind, solar, load)
over various forecasts horizons and prediction intervals. This approach is
model-free and data-driven, producing a set of scenarios that represent
possible future behaviors based only on historical observations and point
forecasts. It first applies a newly-developed unsupervised deep learning
framework, the generative adversarial networks, to learn the intrinsic patterns
in historical renewable generation data. Then by solving an optimization
problem, we are able to quickly generate large number of realistic future
scenarios. The proposed method has been applied to a wind power generation and
forecasting dataset from national renewable energy laboratory. Simulation
results indicate our method is able to generate scenarios that capture spatial
and temporal correlations. Our code and simulation datasets are freely
available online.Comment: Accepted to Power Systems Computation Conference 2018 Code available
at https://github.com/chennnnnyize/Scenario-Forecasts-GA
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