Simul. Notes Eur.Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.11128/SNE.28.BNE12.10452
Zsofia Kolozsvari, Lukas Lienbacher, Stefan Perebner, Henrique Teixeira Rego, M. Bicher, A. Körner, H. Ecker, F. Breitenecker
{"title":"Time- and Event-oriented Spreadsheet Modelling of ARGESIM Benchmark C12 'Collision Processes in Rows of Spheres'","authors":"Zsofia Kolozsvari, Lukas Lienbacher, Stefan Perebner, Henrique Teixeira Rego, M. Bicher, A. Körner, H. Ecker, F. Breitenecker","doi":"10.11128/SNE.28.BNE12.10452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/SNE.28.BNE12.10452","url":null,"abstract":"This Benchmark Study with educational key aspects presents a spreadsheet-based approach to ARGESIM Benchmark C12 ‘Collision Processes in Rows of Spheres’. The process, the collision of spheres in a row, is seen as discrete process with a discrete time base, using two modelling approaches. A classical time-oriented approach describes the movement of the spheres by a discrete-time model, the collisions are approximated within the discretization points. The event-oriented approach makes use of the explicit movement formula and determines a sequence of exact collision times and collision events. Both approaches are implemented in the spreadsheet program Excel, which is quite suitable for simulation of discrete processes by means of recursive formulas. The implementation uses standard features of Excel, so that the provided sources can be used in arbitrary spreadsheet programs. Interestingly, with given medium accuracy and sufficient time resolution, time-oriented and event-oriented results coincide. The study also concentrates on educational aspects in giving a sketch on the physical background of elastic and inelastic collisions, in giving hints for proper implementation, and in providing background information on the selection of required experiments with the model (benchmark tasks). Introduction Collision Processes in Rows of Spheres 1 Model Equations mi d a Bicher et al. Spreadsheet Modelling of ARGESIM Benchmark C12 ‘Collision of Spheres’ 206 SNE 28(4) – 12/2018 B N E Figure 1: Spheres in a row – pendulum with infinite length.","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132103277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Azofra, E. Macías, E. Martínez-Cámara, J. Blanco-Fernández, Juan Ignacio Latorre
{"title":"A Simulation-based Analysis of the Influence of Renewables on the Spanish Electricity Prices","authors":"D. Azofra, E. Macías, E. Martínez-Cámara, J. Blanco-Fernández, Juan Ignacio Latorre","doi":"10.11128/sne.28.tn.10449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/sne.28.tn.10449","url":null,"abstract":". Spain is at the forefront of renewable energy worldwide with a great integration level in its generation mix. This has put Spain in the situation that other coun-tries that support renewable energy will be in a short-me-dium term. However active measures to support renewable energy have been losing strength in recent times seeking to reduce the deficit. On the one hand, the bonus for each technology is different and, on the other hand, their integration level in the mix, and thus its influence on the Pool, is uneven. This work aims to provide information and conclusions about the actual economic impact of each renewable technology on the pool and the electricity tariff for the Spanish case. For doing so, simulation and artificial intelligence techniques are applied in order to model the energy pool and simulate the electricity prices in five fictitious scenarios that suppress out of the generation mix, respectively, wind, photovoltaic, biomass, small hydraulic, and solar thermal. This way, based on the simulation, and ex-post analysis can be developed in order to obtain conclusions and knowledge, useful for other coun-tries as well as for future decision making in the Spanish power system.","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116791441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Andor, Arturo Aquino, E. Martínez-Cámara, Juan Ignacio Latorre, E. Macías
{"title":"Benefit Analysis of Wind Energy Storage by Time Shift Simulation","authors":"D. Andor, Arturo Aquino, E. Martínez-Cámara, Juan Ignacio Latorre, E. Macías","doi":"10.11128/sne.28.tn.10448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/sne.28.tn.10448","url":null,"abstract":". Currently there exist several energy storage technologies that are suitable for wind energy integration services. Energy prices in several countries (such as in Spain) are set for the day ahead market, which means the hourly prices are known the day before. This represents an opportunity for wind power plant owners. Wind energy generated in hours when demand and prices are the lowest could be stored and sold in hours when demand and prices are higher. This paper analyses the benefit of wind energy storage by time shift depending on climatological (wind), technological (storage facil-ities), and market (power prices) factors for the Spanish case, as exemplification of a methodology to be used in any other country. Wind energy time shift has been simulated for periods of time of 1 hour up to 9 hours considering two scenarios, a day with low wind energy generation and a day with high wind generation, in order to determine in which moments a beneficial exists with the different energy storage technologies. According to the results, on a day with high wind energy levels the gain obtained by time shifting wind energy from low to high demand hours could reach 68,1%, and on a day with low wind energy levels, the gain obtained by time shifting wind energy could reach 19,3%.","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"89 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115983324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Hewage, Ambikesh Jayal, Glenn Jenkins, Ryan J. Brown
{"title":"A Learned Polyalphabetic Decryption Cipher","authors":"C. Hewage, Ambikesh Jayal, Glenn Jenkins, Ryan J. Brown","doi":"10.11128/SNE.28.4.1044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/SNE.28.4.1044","url":null,"abstract":"Article published in Simulation Notes Europe, available open access at https://doi.org/10.11128/sne.28.4.1044","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125242972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision Trees for Human Activity Recognition Modelling in Smart House Environments","authors":"Veralia Gabriela Sánchez, Nils-Olav Skeie","doi":"10.11128/SNE.28.TN.10447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/SNE.28.TN.10447","url":null,"abstract":"Human activity recognition in smart house environments is the task of automatic recognition of physical activities of a person to build a safe environment for older adults or any person in their daily life. The aim of this work is to develop a model that can recognize abnormal activities for assisting people living alone in a smart house environment. The idea is based on the assumption that people tend to follow a specific pattern of activities in their daily life. An open source database is used to train the decision trees classifier algorithm. Training and testing of the algorithm is performed using MATLAB. The results show an accuracy rate of 88.02% in the activity detection task.","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125800725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simul. Notes Eur.Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.11128/sne.28.bne.10453
F. Breitenecker, A. Körner, H. Ecker
{"title":"Educational Use of the ARGESIM Benchmarks for Modelling Approaches and Simulation Implementations","authors":"F. Breitenecker, A. Körner, H. Ecker","doi":"10.11128/sne.28.bne.10453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/sne.28.bne.10453","url":null,"abstract":". This short note in SNE 28(4) sketches educational aspects of the ‘ARGESIM Benchmarks for Modelling Approaches and Simulation Implementations’ published since 1990 in SNE. Interestingly, it turned out, that along with the various benchmark publications in SNE, the benchmarks are used as examples, case studies, and lab work in simulation education in academia. Indeed, most of the benchmarks are a very useful basis for education in modelling and simulation. This contribution lists shortly the educational benefits of each benchmark – a detailed investigation of the educational aspects of the benchmarks, together with a description of classification and development of the benchmarks is scheduled for SNE 29 (1), March 2019.","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116437378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and Validation of an Open-Source Mean Value Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Model","authors":"Kristoffer Ekberg, Viktor Leek, L. Eriksson","doi":"10.11128/sne.28.tn.10451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/sne.28.tn.10451","url":null,"abstract":". The pursuit of lower fuel consumption and stricter emission legislation has made a simulation- and optimization-based development methodology impor-tant to the automotive industry. The keystone in the methodology, is the system model. But for the results obtained using a model to be credible, the model has to be validated. The paper validates an open-source, mean-value engine model of a 13 liter CI inline 6 cylinder heavy-duty engine, and releases it as open-source.","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121430029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generating of Task-Based Controls for Joint-Arm Robots with Simulation-based Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Georg Kunert, T. Pawletta","doi":"10.11128/SNE.28.TN.10442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11128/SNE.28.TN.10442","url":null,"abstract":"The paper investigates how a robot control for a pick-and-place application can be learned by simulation using the Q-Learning method, a special Reinforcement Learning approach. Furthermore, a post-optimization approach to improve a learned strategy is presented. Finally, it is shown how the post-optimized strategy can be automatically transformed into an executable control using the simulation-based control approach.","PeriodicalId":262785,"journal":{"name":"Simul. Notes Eur.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121270987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}