Rule base reasoning in the knowledge-based mould design system

U članku se prikazuje parametarski, modularni, integrirani CAD/CAE sustav za konstruiranje kalupa, temeljen na značajkama. Predloženi sustav integrira Pro/E s izvorno razvijenim modulom za izračunavanje parametara injekcijskog prešanja, parametara kalupa i izbor kalupa. Sučelje koristi parametarske CAD/CAE značajke iz tipsko-orijentirane baze podataka, što doprinosi jednostavnijem procesu konstruiranja, uređivanja i izmjene podataka. S obzirom na prethodno istraživanje, članak prikazuje mogućnost modeliranja sustava primjenom pravila. U članku se još predstavlja popis inženjerskih metoda koje su se koristile za gradnju sustava zasnovanog na znanju, a metoda zaključivanja na osnovu pravila proizvodnje predstavlja se detaljnije.This paper describes knowledge-based oriented, parametric, modular, and feature-based integrated CAD/CAE system for mould design. The proposed system integrates Pro/E system with developed original module for calculation of parameters of injection moulding and mould design calculation and selection. The system interface uses parametric and CAD/CAE feature-based database to make the process of design, editing, and reviewing smoother. An example is provided to demonstrate our approach in rule-based representation. Also presented the lists of KBE techniques used for building the knowledge-based system and especially production rules reasoning

Participatory modelling for the integrated sustainability assessment of water: The World Cellular Model and the MATISSE project

This paper describes the participatory process of developing and implementing a prototype model aimed at supporting the Integrated Sustainability Assessment of water resources and policy options at different scales. The model - called the World Cellular Model (WCM) focuses on the representation of agents’ behaviours and their systemic relationships with their environment. This is achieved by examining the interests, motives, cultural beliefs and structural resources that drive agents’ actions with regard to the use of stocks and flows of water, by looking at the impact of such water behaviours on the environment and on the natural ecosystems at different scales, and by examining in a coevolutionary way the impact of such environmental changes on the behaviours of agents. The WC model takes a ‘total system’, multi-scale, agent perspective. That is, agents operate in a single interrelated system in which each individual or collective agent responds to the availability and use of a set of stocks and flows of rules and/or institutions (S), energy and resources (E), information and knowledge (I) that in turn provokes environmental change (C) or impact on the social ecological system. . This model is being developed together with the use of participatory Integrated Assessment focus groups (IA-fgs) with real stakeholders to get insights about agents’ behaviours and the possible architecture of the model so as to increase its socio-ecological robustness and policy relevance. Our research is part of the EU funded project Matisse (Methods and Tools for Integrated Sustainability Assessment)

E Miguel Ângelo criou o homem : um estudo sobre a compreensão e interpretação visual na aula de História

Este texto apresenta parte de um estudo de caso que teve como objectivo identificar os problemas de compreensão e de interpretação dos alunos face a documentos históricos primários icónicos de natureza artística (3º ciclo do Ensino Básico Português, 8º ano, 13-14 anos). O contexto programático foi o “Renascimento e a formação da mentalidade moderna”, tendo sido escolhido como objecto de aprendizagem o fresco de Miguel Ângelo “A criação de Adão”, Capela Sistina, Igreja de S. Pedro, Vaticano. A preocupação por este domínio advém da constatação dos alunos terem uma manifesta dificuldade de “ler” imagens apesar do seu acesso a um número crescente de imagens no seu quotidiano vivencial e em contextos múltiplos escolares.This text presents a part of a case study which purpose was to identify student’s problems to understand and to interpret artistic historical visual evidences. It was developed in the 3rd Cycle classroom of Portuguese System, specifically in its 8th year (13-14 years old students). The curricular context was: “Renaissance and the formation of the Modern Mentality”, and it was chosen as pedagogic material the Miguel Angelo’s fresco -The creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel, S. Peter Church, Vatican). Our concern is based on the fact that students show deep difficulties on reading images, in spite of having an increasing access to a multiple and different images both in their daily life and scholar disciplinary contexts. The History text books present images of various natures, but it is recognised that teachers generally undervalued their relevance as primary or secondary sources and /or a graphic representation of a piece of knowledge. So, we believe that it is necessary to study the ways our students read and interpret images

HBIM IMPLEMENTATION for AN OTTOMAN MOSQUE. CASE of STUDY: SULTAN MEHMET FATIH II MOSQUE in KOSOVO

none5noNational Strategy For Cultural Heritage 2017-2027 is a Kosovo Government document that aims the enhancement of the system for the protection and preservation of Kosovan cultural heritage. Among the listed goals, one can find the promotion of an integrated data management approach towards cooperation platforms that involve advanced technologies and information systems applied to cultural heritage. In a country with a low technological progress, as Kosovo is, an innovative information management system like HBIM is a huge challenge. This research contributes in opening the debate about the use of HBIM even for historical architecture, illustrating a methodology of information management promoting the conservation and the valorization of a Kosovan ottoman mosque. The workflow pipeline started with the close range photogrammetric survey, obtaining first spherical panoramas and then the wire-frame processed in a 3D modelling environment, suitable to implement the HBIM project. Basing on the accuracy of the data acquisition, the availability of information about the building and the related level of knowledge, we proposed a semantic representation of the complex structure integrating in an HBIM collecting in an "ad hoc" database the geometrical building components, enriched with attributes as images, materials, decay, interventions, etc., linked to each features. Our approach is an example of how efficient semantic classification can be repeated for the analysis and the documentation of other similar ottoman mosque, simplifying the management of construction by a sort of unique and searchable archive. The advantage of the interoperability concept allows the data sharing is now stressed by HBIM.openDi Stefano F.; Malinverni E.S.; Pierdicca R.; Fangi G.; Ejupi S.Di Stefano, F.; Malinverni, E. S.; Pierdicca, R.; Fangi, G.; Ejupi, S

3D survey and semantic analysis for the documentation of built heritage. The case study of Palazzo Centrale of Pavia University

[EN] In the procedures regarding built heritage documentation, the process of representing the object in a digital environment is characterized by a high level of complexity. In fact, the need to process heterogeneous information, referring to quantity, quality and format is one of the main emerging issues. Recent technologies of digitization of our built environment offer excellent performances on data reliability and time of acquisition. On the other hand, they bring about new challenges regarding how to define methodologies and strategies to effectively elaborate such information. A possible way to optimize the use of these data is by implementing them into informative systems: these tools have great potential in the creation of multi-layered representations and offer extensive possibilities for interpretations and analyses. This research, carried out by the laboratories DAdaLab and PLAY of the University of Pavia, focuses on the University’s Palazzo Centrale and aims at developing a precise methodological approach: starting from the 3D acquisition, the survey data are discretized – through critical processes of semantic analysis and breakdown – and later implemented into informative databases. Moreover, the architectural characters, construction phases and the strong bond with the urban setting make the case study particularly valuable; therefore, it represents an excellent opportunity to point out the potentials of this approach to the definition of management tools for the conservation of built heritage.Miceli, A.; Morandotti, M.; Parrinello, S. (2020). 3D survey and semantic analysis for the documentation of built heritage. The case study of Palazzo Centrale of Pavia University. 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Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47979-4_28Messaoudi, T., Véron, P., Halin, G., De Luca, L. (2017) An ontological model for the reality-based 3d annotation of heritage building conservation state. Journal of cultural heritage, 29, 100-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2017.05.017Miatton, C., Parinello, S. (2017) Descriptive models for the managment of the maintenance work on the façade of the Basilica of San Michele in Pavia. 3D Modeling & BIM Progettazione, design, proposte per la ricostruzione. Roma. 19-20 April.Moles, A. A. (1972) Teoria informazionale dello schema. Versus, 2, 29-37.Morandotti, M., Parrinello, S., Picchio, F., Becherini, P., De Marco, R., Dell'Amico, A., Doria, E., Galasso, F., Malusardi, C. (2019) L'Università di Pavia. I cortili e gli ambienti monumentali. Un progetto di documentazione digitale e sviluppo di sistemi di gestione per la manutenzione programmata. VII Convegno Internazionale sulla documentazione, conservazione, recupero del patrimonio architettonico e sulla tutela paesaggistica. ReUSO2019, Matera, 23-26 October.Niglio, O. (2017) Memory and Technology. VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability, 2 (2), viii. https://doi.org/10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2017.9008Oreni, D., Brumana, R., Georgopoulos,A., Cuca, B. (2013) HBIM for Conservation and Management of Built Heritage: Towards a Library of Vaults and Wooden Bean Floors. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., II-5/W1, 215-221. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-5-W1-215-2013Paris, L., Wahbeh, W. (2016) Survey and representation of the parametric geometries in HBIM. Disegnarecon, 9(16), 12.1-12.9.Parrinello, S., Gómez-Blanco Pontes, A., Picchio, F., Rodriguez Moreno, C., Rivas López, E. (2019) An integrated system for documentation, analysis and management of the architectural heritage: the general and the parts of the Generalife Palace. EGA Revista de Expression Grafica Arquitectonica 24(35) 140-151. https://doi.org/10.4995/ega.2019.9527Parrinello, S., Picchio, F., Becherini, P., De Marco, R. (2017) Methodological evolution and representative protocols for charterhouses complex. 39° Convegno internazionale dei docenti delle discipline della rappresentazione, XIV Congresso Unione Italiana Per Il Disegno (UID). Territori e frontiere della rappresentazione, Napoli, 14-16 September.Parrinello, S., Picchio, F., De Marco, R., Dell'Amico, A. (2020) Prometheus. Protocols for information models libraries tested on heritage of Upper Kama sites. Il Simposio UID di internazionalizzazione della ricerca. Patrimoni culturali, Architettura, Paesaggio e Design tra ricerca e sperimentazione didattica, Matera, 22 October.Parrinello, S., Picchio, F., Dell'Amico, A., De Marco, R. (2020) A Digital Model for the Management of Museum of Alhambra Complex: The Digital Documentation of Mezquita Bath itale dei bagni della Mezquita. Il Simposio UID di internazionalizzazione della ricerca. Patrimoni culturali, Architettura, Paesaggio e Design tra ricerca e sperimentazione didattica, Matera, 22 October.Picchio, F. (2016) Configuration of virtual landscape of historical centre of Pavia. The Drawing for the abstraction of urban complexity. 38° Convegno internazionale dei docenti delle discipline della rappresentazione, XIII Congresso Unione Italiana Per Il Disegno (UID). Le ragioni del disegno, Firenze, 15-17 September.Picchio, F. (2017) La catalogación de los elementos arquitectónicos. In: Parrinello, S., Gómez-Blanco, A., Picchio, F., El palacio del Generalife. Del levantamiento digital al proyecto de gestion. Pavia University Press, Pavia.Pocobelli, D.P., Boehm, J., Bryan, P., Still, J,m Grau-Bovè, J. (2018) BIM for Heritage Science: a Review. 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On the automatic compilation of e-learning models to planning

[EN] This paper presents a general approach to automatically compile e-learning models to planning, allowing us to easily generate plans, in the form of learning designs, by using existing domain-independent planners. The idea is to compile, first, a course defined in a standard e-learning language into a planning domain, and, second, a file containing students learning information into a planning problem. We provide a common compilation and extend it to three particular approaches that cover a full spectrum of planning paradigms, which increases the possibilities of using current planners: (i) hierarchical, (ii) including PDDL (Planning Domain Definition Language) actions with conditional effects and (iii) including PDDL durative actions. The learning designs are automatically generated from the plans and can be uploaded, and subsequently executed, by learning management platforms. We also provide an extensive analysis of the e-learning metadata specification required for planning, and the pros and cons on the knowledge engineering procedures used in each of the three compilations. Finally, we include some qualitative and quantitative experimentation of the compilations in several domain-independent planners to measure its scalability and applicability.This work has been supported by the Spanish MICINN under projects TIN2008-06701-C03 and Consolider Ingenio 2010 CSD2007-00022, by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology and the regional projects CCG08-UC3M/TIC-4141 and Prometeo GVA 2008/051.Garrido Tejero, A.; Fernandez, S.; Onaindia De La Rivaherrera, E.; Morales, L.; Borrajo, D.; Castillo, L. (2013). On the automatic compilation of e-learning models to planning. Knowledge Engineering Review. 28(2):121-136. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888912000380S121136282Garrido A. , Onaindía E. 2010. On the application of planning and scheduling techniques to E-learning. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2010)—Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6096, 244–253. Springer.Ullrich C 2008. Pedagogically founded courseware generation for web-based learning, No. 5260, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5260, Springer.Sicilia M.A. , Sánchez-Alonso S. , García-Barriocanal E. 2006. On supporting the process of learning design through planners. CEUR Workshop Proceedings: Virtual Campus 2006 Post-Proceedings. Barcelona, Spain, 186(1), 81–89.IMSLD 2003. IMS Learning Design Specification. Version 1.0 (February, 2003). Retrieved December, 2012, from http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign.Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004. Retrieved December, 2012, from http://scorm.com.Garrido A. , Onaindia E. , Morales L. , Castillo L. , Fernandez S. , Borrajo D. 2009. Modeling E-learning activities in automated planning. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS-2009), Thessaloniki, Greece, 18–27.Essalmi, F., Ayed, L. J. B., Jemni, M., Kinshuk, & Graf, S. (2010). A fully personalization strategy of E-learning scenarios. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(4), 581-591. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2009.12.010Camacho D. , R-Moreno M.D. , Obieta U. 2007. CAMOU: a simple integrated e-learning and planning techniques tool. In 4th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing, Roskilde University, Denmark, 1–11.Fox, M., & Long, D. (2003). PDDL2.1: An Extension to PDDL for Expressing Temporal Planning Domains. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 20, 61-124. doi:10.1613/jair.1129KONTOPOULOS, E., VRAKAS, D., KOKKORAS, F., BASSILIADES, N., & VLAHAVAS, I. (2008). An ontology-based planning system for e-course generation. 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Automatic generation of temporal planning domains for e-learning problems. Journal of Scheduling, 13(4), 347-362. doi:10.1007/s10951-009-0140-xUllrich, C., & Melis, E. (2009). Pedagogically founded courseware generation based on HTN-planning. Expert Systems with Applications, 36(5), 9319-9332. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2008.12.043Boticario J. , Santos O. 2007. A dynamic assistance approach to support the development and modelling of adaptive learning scenarion based on educational standards. In Proceedings of Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia, International Conference on User Modelling, Corfu, Greece, 1–8.IMSMD 2003. IMS Learning Resource Meta-data Specification. Version 1.3 (August, 2006). Retrieved December, 2012, from http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata.Mohan P. , Greer J. , McCalla G. 2003. Instructional planning with learning objects. In IJCAI-03 Workshop Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning for E-Learning Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, 52–58.Alonso C. , Honey P. 2002. Honey-alonso Learning Style Theoretical Basis (in Spanish). Retrieved December 2012, from http://www.estilosdeaprendizaje.es/menuprinc2.htm

O sistema terrestre (land system) como plataforma de integração e interpretação das complexas relações ambiente-sociedade

The Land System, as a terrestrial component of the Earth System, constitutes an eminently coupled environment-societies system. For operating in complex interface between social and natural fields, the land system science emerges as a platform for integration of different dimensions of environmental change. In this sense, the present paper aims to explore relations between this theme, interdisciplinarity and complexity. The paper identifies this integration bias from three characteristics: a) the potential for representation of plurality and multidimensionality of several knowledge systems, in different stages of stabilization; b) be endowed of a role of mediation in socioecological processes, acting as cause and consequence, simultaneously; and c) as a result of previous items, be framed as an eminently complex system and, thus, face up to its set of characteristics and behaviors.O chamado sistema terrestre ”“ ou Land System, como a componente terrestre do Sistema Terra ”“ ou Earth System, constitui um sistema eminentemente acoplado entre ambientes e sociedades. Por operar na complexa interface entre os campos sociais e naturais, a ciência do sistema terrestre emerge como uma plataforma de integração das diferentes dimensões relacionadas às mudanças ambientais. Nesse sentido, o presente artigo tem por objetivo a reflexão sobre as relações entre o tema, a interdisciplinaridade e a complexidade. O trabalho identifica esse viés integrador a partir de três características: a) o potencial para representação da pluralidade e multidimensionalidade de diversos sistemas de conhecimento, em diferentes estágios de estabilização; b) ser dotado do papel de mediador de processos socioecológicos, atuando simultaneamente como sua causa e consequência; e c) em decorrência dos itens anteriores, ser enquadrado como um sistema eminentemente complexo e, dessa forma, sujeito a seu conjunto de características, propriedades e comportamentos

Using agent-based modelling and simulation to model performance measurement in healthcare

One of the priority areas of the UK healthcare system is urgent and emergency care, especially accident and emergency departments (A&E departments). Currently, there is much interest in studying the unintended consequences of the current UK healthcare performance system. Simulation modelling has been proved to be a useful tool for modelling different aspects of the healthcare systems, particularly those related to the performance of A&E departments. Most of the available literature on modelling A&E departments focus on supporting operational decision-making and planning in specific healthcare units to study particular problems such as staff scheduling, resource utilisation, and waiting time issues. That is, most simulation studies focus on analysing how different configurations of healthcare systems affect their performance. However, to our knowledge, few simulation studies focus on explaining how human behaviour affects the performance of the system, and very few have studied how, in turn, performance targets set for A&E departments affect human behaviour in healthcare systems. Some aspects of human behaviour have been incorporated within existing simulation models, though with limitations. In fact, most studies have aimed to study patients’ behaviour, and few have included some aspects of the behaviour of clinical staff. Here we consider how to model clinician behaviour in relation to the performance of A&E departments. This thesis presents an exploratory study of the use of agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) and discrete event simulation (DES) to demonstrate how to model clinician behaviour within an A&E department and how that behaviour is related to waiting time performance. Clinical behaviour, incorporated in the simulation models developed here, employs a framework called PECS that assumes that behaviour is influenced by Physical (P), Emotional (E), Cognitive (C) and Social (S) factors. A discussion of the advantages and limitations of the use of ABMS and DES to model such behaviour is included. The findings of this research demonstrate that ABMS is well suited to simulate human behaviour in an A&E department. However, it is not explicitly designed to model processes of complex operational and queue-based systems such as accident and emergency departments. In addition, this research work also demonstrates that DES is an adequate tool for modelling A&E’s processes and patient flows, that can, in fact, incorporate different aspects of human behaviour. Furthermore, the process of modelling human behaviour in DES is complex because, though most DES software allows the representation of reactive behaviour, they make it difficult to model other types of human behaviour The main contributions of this thesis are: 1) a comparison and evaluation of how suitable ABMS and DES are for modelling clinical behaviour, 2) an approach to model the relationship between human behaviour and waiting time performance, considering four aspects of human behaviour (physical, emotional, cognitive and social)

An Ontological-based Knowledge-Representation Formalism for Case-Based Argumentation

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9524-3[EN] In open multi-agent systems, agents can enter or leave the system, interact, form societies, and have dependency relations with each other. In these systems, when agents have to collaborate or coordinate their activities to achieve their objectives, their different interests and preferences can come into conflict. Argumentation is a powerful technique to harmonise these conflicts. However, in many situations the social context of agents determines the way in which agents can argue to reach agreements. In this paper, we advance research in the computational representation of argumentation frameworks by proposing a new ontologicalbased, knowledge-representation formalism for the design of open MAS in which the participating software agents are able to manage and exchange arguments with each other taking into account the agents’ social context. This formalism is the core of a case-based argumentation framework for agent societies. In addition, we present an example of the performance of the formalism in a real domain that manages the requests received by the technicians of a call centre.This work is supported by the Spanish government grants [CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00022, TIN2011-27652-C03-01, and TIN2012-36586-C03-01] and by the GVA project [PROMETEO II/2013/019].Heras Barberá, SM.; Botti, V.; Julian Inglada, VJ. (2014). An Ontological-based Knowledge-Representation Formalism for Case-Based Argumentation. Information Systems Frontiers. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9524-3S120Amgoud, L. (2005). An argumentation-based model for reasoning about coalition structures. In 2nd international workshop on argumentation in multi-agent systems, argmas-05(pp. 1–12). Springer.Amgoud, L., Dimopolous, Y., Moraitis, P. (2007). A unified and general framework for argumentation-based negotiation. In 6th international joint conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems, AAMAS-07. IFAAMAS.Atkinson, K., & Bench-Capon, T. (2008). Abstract argumentation scheme frameworks. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on artificial intelligence: methodology, systems and applications, AIMSA-08, lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5253, pp. 220–234). Springer.Aulinas, M., Tolchinsky, P., Turon, C., Poch, M., Cortés, U. (2012). Argumentation-based framework for industrial wastewater discharges management. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 25(2), 317–325.Bench-Capon, T., & Atkinson, K. (2009). Argumentation in artificial intelligence, chap. abstract argumentation and values (pp. 45–64). Springer.Bench-Capon, T., & Sartor, G. (2003). A model of legal reasoning with cases incorporating theories and values. Artificial Intelligence, 150(1-2), 97–143.Bulling, N., Dix, J., Chesñevar, C.I. (2008). Modelling coalitions: ATL + argumentation. 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