Overview of building information modelling in healthcare projects

In this paper, we explore how BIM functionalities together with novel management concepts and methods have been utilized in thirteen hospital projects in the United States and the United Kingdom. Secondary data collection and analysis were used as the method. Initial findings indicate that the utilization of BIM enables a holistic view of project delivery and helps to integrate project parties into a collaborative process. The initiative to implement BIM must come from the top down to enable early involvement of all key stakeholders. It seems that it is rather resistance from people to adapt to the new way of working and thinking than immaturity of technology that hinders the utilization of BIM

Overview of building information modelling in healthcare projects

In this paper, we explore how BIM functionalities together with novel management concepts and methods have been utilized in thirteen hospital projects in the United States and the United Kingdom. Secondary data collection and analysis were used as the method. Initial findings indicate that the utilization of BIM enables a holistic view of project delivery and helps to integrate project parties into a collaborative process. The initiative to implement BIM must come from the top down to enable early involvement of all key stakeholders. It seems that it is rather resistance from people to adapt to the new way of working and thinking than immaturity of technology that hinders the utilization of BIM

Forum Session at the First International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC03)

The First International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) was held in Trento, December 15-18, 2003. The focus of the conference ---Service Oriented Computing (SOC)--- is the new emerging paradigm for distributed computing and e-business processing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. Of the 181 papers submitted to the ICSOC conference, 10 were selected for the forum session which took place on December the 16th, 2003. The papers were chosen based on their technical quality, originality, relevance to SOC and for their nature of being best suited for a poster presentation or a demonstration. This technical report contains the 10 papers presented during the forum session at the ICSOC conference. In particular, the last two papers in the report ere submitted as industrial papers

Application of the computing environment maple To the calculation of the dynamics of the electromagnets in the complicated systems of forced control

The authors propose a technique for calculating the dynamics of electromagnets operating in complex forced systems. Such forced electromagnets are widely used in electromechanical switching devices, in particular in vacuum contactors, to reduce their size, energy consumption and to increase speed, which indicates the relevance of this topic. A mathematical model of the dynamics of a forced electromagnetic system, which takes into account the peculiarities of behavior in transients of its individual elements – the mechanical system, the magnetic and electrical circuits, taking into account the interaction of the electromagnet with a control device when the apparatus is activated, contains certain signs of scientific novelty and is the purpose of the paper. The technique of calculating the dynamics of forced electromagnets uses the computing environment Maple. The calculation is based on a mathematical model, which is a system of nonlinear differentialequations of the magnetic and electric circuits, supplemented by the equations of motion of the elements of a mechanical system. The use of the computing environment Maple, applied here to automatically perform the mathematical transformations, allowsavoiding the complicated processes of choosing the numerical integration method, programming of complex and cumbersome equations and numerical integration procedures, to obtain results of calculations in convenient tabular and/or graphic form. This specifically indicates the practical significanceof this work. The results of the comparison of calculations with previously published experimental data presented in the paper indicate the high efficiencyof the proposed models and techniques.Розглядається запропонована авторами методика розрахунку динаміки електромагнітів, що працюють у складних форсованих системах. Подібні форсовані електромагніти широко застосовуються в електромеханічних комутаційних апаратах, зокрема у вакуумних контакторах, для зменшення їх розмірів, споживання енергії та для підвищення швидкодії, що свідчить про актуальність даної теми. Математична модель динаміки форсованої електромагнітної системи, що враховує особливості поведінки у нестаціонарних процесах її окремих елементів – механічної системи, магнітного та електричного кіл з урахуванням взаємодії електромагніта з пристроєм керування під час спрацьовування апарата, містить певні ознаки наукової новизни і є метою статті. Методика розрахунку динаміки форсованих електромагнітів застосовує математичний пакет Maple. В основу розрахунку покладено математичну модель, яка представляє собою систему нелінійних диференційних рівнянь магнітного і електричного кіл, доповнених рівняннями руху елементів механічної системи. Застосування пакетуMaple, який багато в чому бере на себе складнощі математичного опису різних процесів, автоматично здійснюючи дуже складні і громіздкі математичні перетворення, дозволяє, уникаючи складних процесів вибору способу чисельного інтегрування, програмування складних й громіздких рівнянь та процедур їх чисельного інтегрування, отримувати результати розрахунків у зручній табличній та/або графічній формі, що свідчить про практичну значущість даної роботи. Наведені у статті результати зіставлення розрахунків з опублікованими раніше експериментальними даними, свідчать про високу ефективність запропонованих моделей та методи

Computational Particle Physics for Event Generators and Data Analysis

High-energy physics data analysis relies heavily on the comparison between experimental and simulated data as stressed lately by the Higgs search at LHC and the recent identification of a Higgs-like new boson. The first link in the full simulation chain is the event generation both for background and for expected signals. Nowadays event generators are based on the automatic computation of matrix element or amplitude for each process of interest. Moreover, recent analysis techniques based on the matrix element likelihood method assign probabilities for every event to belong to any of a given set of possible processes. This method originally used for the top mass measurement, although computing intensive, has shown its power at LHC to extract the new boson signal from the background. Serving both needs, the automatic calculation of matrix element is therefore more than ever of prime importance for particle physics. Initiated in the eighties, the techniques have matured for the lowest order calculations (tree-level), but become complex and CPU time consuming when higher order calculations involving loop diagrams are necessary like for QCD processes at LHC. New calculation techniques for next-to-leading order (NLO) have surfaced making possible the generation of processes with many final state particles (up to 6). If NLO calculations are in many cases under control, although not yet fully automatic, even higher precision calculations involving processes at 2-loops or more remain a big challenge. After a short introduction to particle physics and to the related theoretical framework, we will review some of the computing techniques that have been developed to make these calculations automatic. The main available packages and some of the most important applications for simulation and data analysis, in particular at LHC will also be summarized.Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures, Proceedings of CCP (Conference on Computational Physics) Oct. 2012, Osaka (Japan) in IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Serie

Workshop on Verification and Theorem Proving for Continuous Systems (NetCA Workshop 2005)

Oxford, UK, 26 August 200

Distributed Maple: parallel computer algebra in networked environments

AbstractWe describe the design and use of Distributed Maple, an environment for executing parallel computer algebra programs on multiprocessors and heterogeneous clusters. The system embeds kernels of the computer algebra system Maple as computational engines into a networked coordination layer implemented in the programming language Java. On the basis of a comparatively high-level programming model, one may write parallel Maple programs that show good speedups in medium-scaled environments. We report on the use of the system for the parallelization of various functions of the algebraic geometry library CASA and demonstrate how design decisions affect the dynamic behaviour and performance of a parallel application. Numerous experimental results allow comparison of Distributed Maple with other systems for parallel computer algebra