{"title":"Virtual Reality Based Independent Travel Training System for Children with Intellectual Disability","authors":"Yang Tianwu, Zhou Changjiu, Shen Jiayao","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.034","url":null,"abstract":"Travel independently is one of the core skills required for children with intellectual disability to lead an independent life. Virtual reality based travel training system with natural interaction could help them to practice their travel skill in a safe environment without supervision. Developing real-time travel training system is a challenging work due to inherent complexity of 3D traffic simulation. This paper focuses on developing a simplified travel training system but keeping all the significant features of simulated traffic entities related to travel training. Multi-agent system (MAS) with centralized data manager is introduced to simplify the interaction among all traffic entities and virtual traffic environment. The travel training system concentrates on more realistic interaction among virtual avatar, vehicles and pedestrians to help the trainee get more immersive travel experience. Experiment results show the different behaviors of simulated pedestrians and vehicles in vehicle-pedestrian interaction.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":" 22","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113951945","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":"A Literature Review of Revenue Management in Retail Sectors and the Categorization of Solution Methods","authors":"Piril Tekin, R. Erol","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.026","url":null,"abstract":"The revenue management is selling the right product, with the right price, at the right time, to the right customer as defined in literature. The importance of revenue management (RM) in retail sector is increasing so quickly in the recent past. Thus, the institutions begin to use it as a tool of their profitability under the developing technological conditions. However, the number of products makes the implementation so difficult. Every each study about RM is trying to simplify the system, the researches haven’t fully completed yet. In this study, a literature review of RM in retail sector is made to shed light for future researchers, by offering a review on various studies in the literature, research methods, concerned constraints and solution approaches.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130390092","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":"Breast Image Classification Based on Concatenated Statistical, Structural and Textural Features","authors":"A. Nahid, T. Khan, Yinan Kong","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.015","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer. Statistics show that breast cancer causes the second highest mortality in women worldwide and around two million new cases were diagnosed every year. Accurate classification of breast cancer has acquired high importance for proper diagnosis which can save doctors and physiologist time. The breast, which contains fatty tissue is more vulnerable to cancer. In this paper, we classify a set of breast images based on Fatty tissue and non-Fatty tissue using a concatenated statistical, structural and textural feature set. For the classification, we have used Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Neural Network (NN) techniques as a classifier tool. Investigation shows that concatenated statistical, structural and textural features provide better classification result.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128649622","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}
M. Tümay, T. Demirdelen, Selva Bal, R. İ. Kayaalp, Burcu Dogru, Mahmut Aksoy
{"title":"A Power Rating and Application Survey of Magnetically Controlled Shunt Reactor","authors":"M. Tümay, T. Demirdelen, Selva Bal, R. İ. Kayaalp, Burcu Dogru, Mahmut Aksoy","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.029","url":null,"abstract":"MCSR can simplify the system reactive power and voltage control in the super / special high-voltage power grid, suppress power frequency and operation over voltage, eliminating generator self excitation, dynamically compensate charging the power in a transmission line, suppress the secondary arc current, damping system resonance and so on, which can meet the various needs of the system, it has a very broad application prospects. This paper presents a power rating and application survey of MCSR. It is aimed at providing a broad perspective on the status of MCSR technology to the researchers and the application engineers dealing with power quality issues. A list of more than 45 research publications on the subject is also appended for a quick reference.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114120524","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":"Continuous Moment-Based Features for Classification of Ground Vehicle SAR Images","authors":"Pouya Bolourchi, H. Demirel, S. Uysal","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.019","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, four continuous moment-based feature extraction techniques for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are examined. Geometric Moments (GMs), Legendre Moments (LMs), Zernike Moments (ZMs) and Pseudo Zernike Moments (PZMs) are introduced as a feature extraction for three types of ground vehicles from SAR images. GMs are simplest moment that suffers from high degree of information redundancy since its basis is not orthogonal. LMs defined as a moment with orthogonal basis to overcome GMs drawback. Complex moments are defined as ZMs and PZMs and widely used because their polynomials are orthogonal to each other and are rotational invariant. However, PZMs have better feature representation capabilities than ZMs based method. In this context, we applied the four techniques on SAR images using Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification. Experimental results have proven that the accuracy of ZMs and PZMs are superior to GMs and LMs, while LMs still has a better accuracy rather than GMs.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121356922","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":"Model Based Design of a Renewable Energy Supply with Hybrid Energy Storage System","authors":"Philipp Kemper, U. Witkowski","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.030","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy sources continue to gain popularity. However, two major limitations exist that prevent widespread adoption: System power reliability under varying weather conditions and the corresponding system cost. The wide range of performance characteristics of storage technologies motivates the use of hybrid energy storage systems (HESS) to overcome these drawbacks. This work suggests a model based iterative design approach to find the optimal sizing of a renewable energy generation system with hybrid energy storage system. Therefore, easy to implement models, based on parameters which can be derived from manufacturers data sheets, are developed. Furthermore, a cascaded rule-based predictive energy management is implemented. The design approach was used to find optimal component sizes, generators and storage systems, for a specific building based on real world data.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122433584","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 the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Worm Propagation in Smartphones Based on Cellular Automata","authors":"Gabriel Gonzalez Garcia, María E. Lárraga-Ramírez","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.042","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the expanding smartphone market has become an increasingly attractive target for malicious attacks. This has motivated the continuous development of models to understand the behavior of smartphone malware and describe its spatial propagation. One of possible communication channels for the penetration of mobile malware is the Bluetooth interface, where the malware infects devices in its proximity as biological virus does. In this paper, a new mathematical model to study the spatio-temporal propagation dynamics of Bluetooth worms based on cellular automata and the compartmental epidemiological models is introduced. The model takes into account the local interactions between the smartphones and it is able to simulate the individual dynamic of each mobile device. Furthermore, the model consider the effect of mobility on the infection propagation. Some simulation results indicate that the model captures the spatio-temporal dynamics of Bluetooth worm propagation and facilitates predictions of the evolution of the malware spreading. In addition, the computational cost of the model is low, making it suitable to understand the behavior of a modeled malware and predict the spreading curves of Bluetooth worm propagation in large areas.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130740793","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":"A Simulation Study of Effect of Fish Body Size on Communication Performance in a Fish Farm Monitoring Environment","authors":"Y. Taniguchi","doi":"10.1109/EMS.2016.041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2016.041","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, sensor network technologies have attracted attentions in the field of the primary industry such as the aquaculture industry. We have proposed a fish farm monitoring system for developing efficient farming of tuna. In our monitoring system, a sensor node is attached at fish and its sensing data are gathered at a sink node. In the monitoring environment, the size of fish is varied between 5 cm and 100 cm depending on the age of fish. Therefore, the communication environment is also varied depending on the age. In this paper, we investigate the effect of fish body size on the performance of communication in our monitoring system. Through simulation evaluations, we show that the size of fish significantly affects to the data gathering performance.","PeriodicalId":446936,"journal":{"name":"2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116546041","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}