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This work focuses on the coupling of trimmed shell patches using Isogeometric Analysis, based on higher continuity splines that seamlessly meet the C 1 \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackag ...
Springer2024

InterpretCC: Intrinsic User-Centric Interpretability through Global Mixture of Experts

Martin Jaggi, Vinitra Swamy, Jibril Albachir Frej, Julian Thomas Blackwell

Interpretability for neural networks is a trade-off between three key requirements: 1) faithfulness of the explanation (i.e., how perfectly it explains the prediction), 2) understandability of the explanation by humans, and 3) model performance. Most exist ...
2024

Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

Davide Galassi, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Filippo Bagnato, Dario Vaccaro

The official Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production mission aims to demonstrate the ability to generate net electricity from fusion with the STEP Prototype Power plant. One of the key technological and engineering challenges in fusion power plants is mana ...
Elsevier Science Sa2024

Lessons Learned from Data-Driven Building Control Experiments: Contrasting Gaussian Process-based MPC, Bilevel DeePC, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

Colin Neil Jones, Yingzhao Lian, Loris Di Natale, Jicheng Shi, Emilio Maddalena

This manuscript offers the perspective of experimentalists on a number of modern data-driven techniques: model predictive control relying on Gaussian processes, adaptive data-driven control based on behavioral theory, and deep reinforcement learning. These ...
2023

Chat2Code: A Chatbot for Model Specification and Code Generation, The Case of Smart Contracts

Shailesh Mishra

The potential of automatic code generation through Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) frameworks has yet to be realized. Beyond their ability to help software professionals write more accurate, reusable code, MDE frameworks could make programming accessible fo ...
Los Alamitos2023

A Reuse-Ready Timber Slab-and-Column System for Modular Building Structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Alex-Manuel Muresan, Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos

The construction industry is a significant contributor to resource consumption and waste generation. To address this issue, component reuse has been proposed as a way to prevent valuable building elements from being discarded and avoid producing new ones. ...
Curran Associates, Inc.2023

Studies on EU-DEMO 3D coils requirements and conceptual design for error field correction and plasma control

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Hartmut Zohm, Leonardo Pigatto

This work presents the initial studies on the requirements for the design of 3D coils on EU-DEMO. The use of 3D coils in present machines includes two main purposes: the first one is the Error Field Correction (EFC). The EFC aims at minimizing the intrinsi ...
Lausanne2023

Optimized control strategy for single-phase multilevel cascaded converter in a distributed PV-BESS system

Andrea Cervone

The paper focuses on the energy management of a single-phase PV-BESS hybrid distributed system sized for residential applications, using a CHB converter topology as grid interface. The CHB is driven with a hierarchical energy management architecture, with ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Modeling high-entropy transition metal alloys with alchemical compression

Michele Ceriotti, Guillaume André Jean Fraux, Sandip De, Nataliya Lopanitsyna

Alloys composed of several elements in roughly equimolar composition, often referred to as high-entropy alloys, have long been of interest for their thermodynamics and peculiar mechanical properties, and more recently for their potential application in cat ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Plasma-Assisted Hybrid Vapour Deposition Technology for Thin Film Fabrication

Caroline Hain

Continuous development of thin film deposition technologies is essential for the fabrication of films that meet the specific requirements of their target applications and working conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of accessible a ...
EPFL2023

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