Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International最新文献

Analyzing social media networks is crucial for understanding and uncovering common interests and characteristics among users within human societies. In this context, we simulated a simple application of human interaction in social networks, which involves users following others based on text similarity. We then investigated the effects of various machine learning (ML) algorithms employed in the applications to be used as recommendations to decision-making users. A novel agent-based social network simulator called distributed system and multinode processing is developed to assess the parallelization of the ML algorithms (i.e., K-means clustering, cosine similarity, support vector machine, multilayer perceptron) using bag of words (BoW) term frequency-inverse document frequency vectorization by evaluating their performance when executed in parallel across distributed heterogeneous resources. In addition, this simulator compares the effects of BoW with the Doc2Vec model on network structure by observing the differences in detected communities and resulting network graphs when a selected user follows the recommendations produced by an employed algorithm. Three real datasets were used in the experiments: Twitter, Scientific Research Papers, and Retail. This work's contribution is a unique in-house agent-based simulator developed to analyze the impact of common ML algorithms, including supervised and unsupervised learning, on social networks.

The engineering of IoT systems brings about various challenges due to the inherent complexities associated with such heterogeneous systems. In this paper, we propose a library of statechart templates, STL4IoT, for designing complex IoT systems. We have developed atomic statechart components modeling the heterogeneous aspects of IoT systems including sensors, actuators, physical entities, network, and controller. Base system units for smart systems have also been designed. A component for calculating power usage is available in the library. In addition, a smart hub template that controls interactions among multiple IoT systems and manages power consumption has also been proposed. The templates aim to facilitate the modeling and simulation of IoT systems. Our work is demonstrated with a smart home system consisting of a smart hub of lights, a smart microwave, a smart TV, and a smart fire alarm system. We have created a multi statechart with Itemis CREATE based on the proposed templates and components. A smart home simulator has been developed by generating controller code from the statechart and integrating it with a user interface.

Floorplans often require considering numerous factors, from the layout size to cost, numeric attributes such as room sizes, and other intrinsic properties such as connectivity between visible regions. Representing these complex factors is challenging, but doing so in a representative and efficient way can enable new modes of design exploration. Existing image and graph-based approaches of floorplans' representation often failed to consider low-level space semantics, structural features, and space utilization with respect to its future inhabitants, which are all the critical elements to analyze design layouts. We present a latent-space representation of floorplans using gated recurrent unit variational autoencoder (GRU-VAE), where floorplans are represented as attributed graphs (encoded with the abovementioned features). Two local search approaches are presented to efficiently explore the latent space for optimizing and generating new floorplans for the given environment. Semantic, structural, and visibility metrics are evaluated individually and as a combined objective for optimizations.

Campus master plans are released every few years for developing and implementing its physical infrastructure. Open spaces, compactness, connectivity, greenness, and environmental impact have often been the focus on its framework. In particular, the effect of new building development on existing buildings' occupant comfort and design intent is mostly ignored. Providing guidelines to retain existing users' comfort for stakeholders involved in design decision making will result in improved design decisions. Hence, this research aims to provide a work methodology to mitigate the adverse effects of new buildings on existing buildings' user comfort through a case study at Carleton University. The case study shows a methodology to retain the existing users' comfort by analyzing Carleton University's master plan on massing studies, occupant survey to understand their comfort needs, performance analysis of the impact of the new building on the existing building user comfort. The analysis reveals the key parameters to consider in design for occupants' comfort. Finally, the research reinforces the generative design and the need for dynamic modeling in campus master plans to mitigate the negative implications of new development on occupants' comfort.