Interaction and Experience in Enactive Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics

We overview how sensorimotor experience can be operationalized for interaction scenarios in which humanoid robots acquire skills and linguistic behaviours via enacting a “form-of-life”’ in interaction games (following Wittgenstein) with humans. The enactive paradigm is introduced which provides a powerful framework for the construction of complex adaptive systems, based on interaction, habit, and experience. Enactive cognitive architectures (following insights of Varela, Thompson and Rosch) that we have developed support social learning and robot ontogeny by harnessing information-theoretic methods and raw uninterpreted sensorimotor experience to scaffold the acquisition of behaviours. The success criterion here is validation by the robot engaging in ongoing human-robot interaction with naive participants who, over the course of iterated interactions, shape the robot’s behavioural and linguistic development. Engagement in such interaction exhibiting aspects of purposeful, habitual recurring structure evidences the developed capability of the humanoid to enact language and interaction games as a successful participant

Development of Cloud-Based Microservices to Decision Support System

Intelligent systems of simulation become a key stage of the scheduling of companies and industries work. Most of the existing decision support systems are desktop software. Today there is a need to use durability, flexibility, availability and crossplatforming information technologies. The paper proposes the idea of working cloud based decision support system BPsim.Web and this one consists of some set of services and tools. The model of the multiagent resources conversion process is considered. The process of the simulation model developing via BPsim.Web is described. An example of the real process model is given. © 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR: 18-37-00183The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-37-00183

Camera-Based Visual Feedback Learning Aid for Recovering Sense of Smell and Taste in COVID-19 Survivors: A Proof-of-Concept Study

Introduction: A significant proportion of people report persistent COVID 19-related anosmia, hyposmia or parosmia, often accompanied with ageusia, hypogeusia or dysgeusia. Here, we present a proof-of-concept study that assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a new Camera-Based Visual Feedback Learning Aid (CVFLA) and explored its potential to restore or improve persistent COVID-19-related smell and/or taste impairment. Methods: Fifteen adult participants with persistent smell and/or taste impairment were randomly allocated to 7-, 14-, or 21-days baseline of symptom monitoring before receiving the intervention in up to 10 sessions (length and frequency determined by participant’s preference and progress) using a specialised CVFLA apparatus (patent no. 10186160). Smell and taste were assessed pre- and post intervention subjectively, and also objectively using the ODOFIN Taste Strips and Sniffin Sticks. Participant feedback about their experience of receiving CVFLA was obtained via a semi-structured interview conducted by someone not involved in delivering the intervention. Results: The intervention was extremely well received, with no dropouts related to the intervention. There was also a significant improvement in smell and taste from pre- to post-CVFLA intervention (mean number of sessions = 7.46, SD = 2.55; total duration = 389.96 min, SD = 150.93) both in subjective and objective measures. All participants, except one, reported experiencing some improvement from the 2nd or 3rd session. Discussion: This new CVFLA intervention shows promise in improving COVID-19 related impairment in smell and taste with a very high level of acceptability. Further studies with larger samples are required to confirm its potential in restoring, improving or correcting smell and/or taste impairment in relevant clinical and non-clinical groups.Brunel University London, and the European Research Development Fund (EDRF) and Learning JBE Ltd. via Anglia Ruskin University. Learning JBE Ltd. owns the patent on the camera-based feedback learning technique used in the study. Learning JBE Ltd. was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication

Simulation of the steelmaking process using collision avoiding cranes moving models

The paper discusses a steelmaking process and its optimisation using simulation. The optimisation goal is to reduce the total distance travelled by cranes in all spans as well as to reduce the steel waiting time before casting on a continuous casting machine. Models of the process under study have been developed in the AnyLogic simulation software and the modelling subsystem of the metallurgical enterprise automated system. A comparative analysis of the simulation results has been conducted. All results are feasible in terms of meeting the technological constraint on the steel downtime in front of the continuous casting machine for no more than 15 minutes. When comparing two collision avoiding cranes moving models, a choice has been made in favour of a model that provides cranes movement to the nearest steel processing aggregate. Using this model allows to reduce the total path travelled by cranes by 6%. The results of using different modelling systems are consistent. © 2020 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd

Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Abdominal Sepsis

Kryvoruchko I. A., Antonova M. S., Tonkoglas O. A., Goni S.-K. T. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Abdominal Sepsis. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(3):449-456. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.399313 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4362 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author (s) 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 21.03.2017. Revised 22.03.2017. Accepted: 23.03.2017. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Abdominal Sepsis I. A. Kryvoruchko, M. S. Antonova, O. A. Tonkoglas, S.-K. T. Goni Kharkov National Medical University Ministry of Health of Ukraine Abstract Investigations were carried out in 53 patients who were operated on in 2015 about abdominal sepsis (AS). All patients were assigned according the severity of the condition, which was determined depending on the severity of the systemic inflammatory response and multiple organ failure: I group - patients with AS (28); II group - patients with severe AS (14); III group - patients with septic shock (11). Surgical management of all patients included two major components: control source of infection (source control) and control of organ damaged and the protective mechanisms system (damage control). In the first group, the laparotomy ended by suturing the wounds tightly with traditional drainage; in groups II and III surgical treatment were supplemented by the use of techniques aimed at the prevention and reduction of elevated intra-abdominal pressure. Studies have shown that 100 % of patients with AS showed an increase in intra-abdominal pressure and the development of intra-abdominal hypertension. While ACS developed in 18.9 % of cases (4 patients with severe sepsis and 6 - with septic shock). The highest mortality rate was observed among patients with grade III and IV intra-abdominal hypertension (11 of 25 patients). Key words: intra-abdominal pressure, abdominal sepsis, abdominal compartment syndrome, treatment

Development of simulation model of continuous casting machine with dry change of steel ladles

Results of development of a multiagent simulation model of continuous casting machine with dry change of steel ladles are presented. An algorithm for cutting slabs as well as implementation of this algorithm to the multiagent model of the resource conversion process has been described. The simulation model of the continuous casting machine work is implemented in a metallurgical enterprise information system. During experiments with the model, information is used on the duration of real production processes. This information is formed by the data preparation module of the information system. As a result of simulation-evolutionary modeling with the developed model, recommendations have been obtained for increasing number of units of products going to customers without rejection and reassignment. © 2020 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-37-00183

Stages in formalizing energy conservation and efficiency management in industrial enterprises

This study introduces a method to formalize mathematical target setting at managing energy conservation and efficiency in enterprises. The suggested approach is based on energy conservation positioning, which reflects the link between company's management team and its energy efficiency policy. This project implementation aims to increase competitiveness of enterprises in a range of industries

An Imitation and Heuristic Method for Scheduling with Subcontracted Resources

A scheduling problem with subcontracted resources is widely spread and is associated with the distribution of limited renewable and non-renewable resources, both own and subcontracted ones based on the work’s due dates and the earliest start time. Scheduling’s goal is to reduce the cost of the subcontracted resources. In the paper, application of a few scheduling methods based on scheduling theory and the optimization algorithm is considered; limitations of these methods’ application are highlighted. It is shown that the use of simulation modeling with heuristic rules for allocation of the renewable resources makes it possible to overcome the identified limitations. A new imitation and heuristic method for solving the assigned scheduling problem is proposed. The comparison of the new method with existing ones in terms of the quality of the found solution and performance of the methods is carried out. A case study is presented that allowed a four-fold reduction of the overall subcontracted resources cost in a real project portfolio. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Funding: This research was funded by Act 211 Government of the Russian Federation, contract no. 02.A03.21.0006

Analysis of the methods for accounting the renewable and non-renewable resources in scheduling

The paper discusses a scheduling problem taking into account the constraints on the renewable and non-renewable resources and availability of the works due dates. For the problem, an overview of the scheduling methods is given. The considered scheduling methods include approximate optimization algorithms and hybrid algorithms based on the genetic algorithm. It is concluded that it is necessary to use heuristic methods to find a solution. A new hybrid scheduling method based on multi-agent simulation is proposed. Application of agent-based simulation allows one to take into account the life cycle of the non-renewable resources and to distribute the renewable resources during scheduling. The genetic algorithm ensures search for the effective schedule with aim at the minimum cost of attracting the additional renewable resources in order to maintain the works deadlines. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd

Effects of Mn doping on dielectric properties of ferroelectric relaxor PLZT ceramics

This work has been supported by Latvian state research program IMIS2 .A series of PLZT (8/65/35) ceramics with different Mn2O3 concentration (0.01, 0.1, 0.3, 1.0, and 3.0% by weight) have been synthesized to figure out its influence on their dielectric properties. The complex dielectric permittivity ε* = ε′−iε″ as function of frequency and temperature as well as polarisation loops P(E) have been studied as a function of Mn concentration. It was found that Mn doping is restrained the Vogel-Fulcher law held in the unmodified PLZT compound producing essential change of the dependence of ε* on temperature and frequency and of the shape of P(E). The observed effects are explained by gradual involvement of Debye and Maxwell-Wagner polarisation mechanisms in relaxation processes with the growth of the concentration of Mn concentration admixture. A decrease of the ε'(T) maximum value and shift of the maximum to higher temperatures is observed. The observed effects are attributed to impacts of Mn2+ and Mn3+ ions: formation of oxygen vacancies paired with Mn2+ as dipoles and Jahn-Teller distortion prompted by Mn3+ ions.IMIS2; Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia as the Center of Excellence has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 under grant agreement No. 739508, project CAMART