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Severity-sensitive norm-governed multi-agent planning
This research was funded by Selex ES. The software developed during this research, including the norm analysis and planning algorithms, the simulator and harbour protection scenario used during evaluation is freely available from doi:10.5258/SOTON/D0139Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Realizzazione di applicazioni informatiche per l'accesso alle funzionalitĂ di ufficio in mobilitĂ
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Observation-Based Multi-Agent Planning with Communication
This research has been sponsored by SELEX ES. We thank Feng Wu for providing the source code of the MAOP-COMM planner.Publisher PD
Supporting social innovation through visualisations of community interactions
Online communities that form through the introduction of sociotechnical platforms require significant effort to cultivate and sustain. Providing open, transparent information on community behaviour can motivate participation from community members themselves, while also providing platform administrators with detailed interaction dynamics. However, challenges arise in both understanding what information is conducive to engagement and sustainability, and then how best to represent this information to platform stakeholders. Towards a better understanding of these challenges, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a set of simple visualisations integrated into a Collective Awareness Platform for Social Innovation platform titled commonfare.net. We discuss the promise and challenge of bringing social innovation into the digital age, in terms of supporting sustained platform use and collective action, and how the introduction of community visualisations has been directed towards achieving this goal
Very slightly anomalous leakage of CO2, CH4 and radon along the main activated faults of the strong L'Aquila earthquake (Magnitude 6.3, Italy). Implications for risk assessment monitoring tools & public acceptance of CO2 and CH4 underground storage.
Abstract The 2009-2010 L'Aquila seismic sequence is still slightly occurring along the central Apenninic Belt (August 2010), spanning more than one year period. The main- shock (Mw 6.3) occurred on April 6th at 1:32 (UTC). The earthquake was destructive and caused among 300 casualties. The hypocenter has been located at 42.35 °N, 13.38° at a depth of around 10 km. The main shock was preceded by a long seismic sequence starting several months before (i.e., March, 30, 2009 with Mw 4.1; April, 5 with Mw 3.9 and Mw 3.5, a few hours before the main shock). A lot of evidences stress the role of deep fluids pore-pressure evolution–possibly CO2 or brines - as occurred in the past, along seismically activated segments in Apennines. Our geochemical group started to survey the seismically activated area soon after the main-shock, by sampling around 1000 soil gas points and around 80 groundwater points (springs and wells, sampled on monthly basis still ongoing), to help in understanding the activated fault segments geometry and behaviour, as well as leakage patterns at surface (CO2, CH4, Radon and other geogas as He, H2, N2, H2S, O2, etc …), in the main sector of the activated seismic sequence, not far from a deep natural CO2 reservoir underground (termomethamorphic CO2 from carbonate diagenesis), degassing at surface only over the Cotilia-Canetra area, 20 km NW from the seismically activated area. The work highlighted that geochemical measurements on soils are very powerful to discriminate the activated seismogenic segments at surface, their jointing belt, as well as co-seismic depocenter of deformation. Mostly where the measured "threshold" magnitude of earthquakes (around 6), involve that the superficial effects could be absent or masked, our geochemical method demonstrated to be strategic, and we wish to use these methods in CO2 analogues/ CO2 reservoir studies abroad, after done in Weyburn. The highlighted geochemical - slight but clear anomalies are, in any case, not dangerous for the human health and keep away the fear around the CO2–CH4 bursts or explosions during strong earthquakes, as the L'Aquila one, when these gases are stored naturally/industrially underground in the vicinity (1–2 km deep). These findings are not new for these kind of Italian seismically activated faults and are very useful for the CO2–CH4 geological storage public acceptance: Not necessarily (rarely or never) these geogas escape abruptly from underground along strongly activated faults
Very slightly anomalous leakage of CO2, CH4 and radon along the main activated faults of the strong L’Aquila earthquake (Magnitude 6.3, Italy). Implications for risk assessment monitoring tools & public acceptance of CO2 and CH4 underground storage.
The 2009-2010 L'Aquila seismic sequence is still slightly occurring along the central
Apenninic Belt (August 2010), spanning more than one year period. The main- shock
(Mw 6.3) occurred on April 6th at 1:32 (UTC). The earthquake was destructive and caused
among 300 casualties. The hypocenter has been located at 42.35°N, 13.38° at a depth of
around 10 km. The main shock was preceded by a long seismic sequence starting several
months before (i.e., March, 30, 2009 with Mw 4.1; April, 5 with Mw 3.9 and Mw 3.5, a
few hours before the main shock). A lot of evidences stress the role of deep fluids porepressure
evolution – possibly CO2 or brines - as occurred in the past, along seismically
activated segments in Apennines. Our geochemical group started to survey the
seismically activated area soon after the main-shock, by sampling around 1000 soil gas
points and around 80 groundwater points (springs and wells, sampled on monthly basis
still ongoing), to help in understanding the activated fault segments geometry and
behaviour, as well as leakage patterns at surface (CO2, CH4, Radon and other geogas as
He, H2, N2, H2S, O2, etc...), in the main sector of the activated seismic sequence, not far
from a deep natural CO2 reservoir underground (termomethamorphic CO2 from
carbonate diagenesis), degassing at surface only over the Cotilia-Canetra area, 20 km
NW from the seismically activated area.
The work highlighted that geochemical measurements on soils are very powerful to
discriminate the activated seismogenic segments at surface, their jointing belt, as well as
co-seismic depocenter of deformation. Mostly where the measured “threshold”
magnitude of earthquakes (around 6), involve that the superficial effects could be absent or masked, our geochemical method demonstrated to be strategic, and we wish to use
these methods in CO2 analogues/CO2 reservoir studies abroad, after done in Weyburn.
The highlighted geochemical -slight but clear- anomalies are, in any case, not dangerous
for the human health and keep away the fear around the CO2-CH4 bursts or explosions
during strong earthquakes, as the L'Aquila one, when these gases are stored
naturally/industrially underground in the vicinity (1-2 km deep). These findings are not
new for these kind of Italian seismically activated faults and are very useful for the CO2-
CH4 geological storage public acceptance: not necessarily (rarely or never) these geogas
escape abruptly from underground along strongly activated faults
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS
Implementation of semi-discrete, non-staggered central schemes in a colocated, polyhedral, finite volume framework, for high-speed viscous flow
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