Acta Polytechnica. 2014, vol. 54, no. 5
http://hdl.handle.net/10467/66605
2024-03-19T01:44:59ZHYDRATION OF PLASMA-TREATED ALUMOSILICATE BINDERS
http://hdl.handle.net/10467/67163
HYDRATION OF PLASMA-TREATED ALUMOSILICATE BINDERS
Šmilauer , Vít; Babchenko , Oleg; Potocký , Štepán; Kromka , Alexander
Plasma treatment offers several applications in material science. In this research, the potential of plasma treatment is explored on the hydration of hydrophilic CNT-enriched cement and hydrophilic fly ash. The evolution of the hydration heat and the compressive strength show that a hydrophilic surface slightly accelerates the early-age hydration kinetics, while the long-term properties remain unchanged.
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZRESONANT SWITCH MODEL OF HF QPOS AND EQUATIONS OF STATE OF NEUTRON STARS AND QUARK STARS
http://hdl.handle.net/10467/67162
RESONANT SWITCH MODEL OF HF QPOS AND EQUATIONS OF STATE OF NEUTRON STARS AND QUARK STARS
Stuchlík , Zdenek; Urbanec , Martin; Kotrlová , Andrea; Török , Gabriel; Goluchová , Katerina
The mass and spin estimates of the 4U 1636−53 neutron star obtained by the Resonant Switch (RS) model of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) are tested by a large variety of equations of state (EoS) governing the structure of neutron stars. Neutron star models are constructed under the Hartle–Thorne theory of slowly rotating neutron stars calculated using the observationally given rotational frequency frot = 580 Hz (or alternatively frot = 290 Hz) of the neutron star at 4U 1636−53. It is demonstrated that only two variants of the RS model are compatible with the parameters obtained by modelling neutron stars for the rotational frequency frot = 580 Hz. The variant giving the best fit with parameters M ~ 2.20Mʘ and a ~ 0.27 agrees with high precision with the prediction of one of the Skyrme EoS [1]. The variant giving the second best fit with parameters M ~ 2.12Mʘ and a ~ 0.20 agrees with lower precision with the prediction of the Gandolfi EoS [2].
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTOWARDS EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSPIRED BY NATURE
http://hdl.handle.net/10467/67161
TOWARDS EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSPIRED BY NATURE
Vítku , Jaroslav; Nahodil , Pavel
This paper presents first steps towards evolutionary design of complex autonomous systems. The approach is inspired in modularity of human brain and principles of evolution. Rather than evolving neural networks or neural-based systems, the approach focuses on evolving hybrid networks composed of heterogeneous sub-systems implementing various algorithms/behaviors. Currently, the evolutionary techniques are used to optimize weights between predefined blocks (so called Neural Modules) in order to find an agent architecture appropriate for given task. The framework, together with the simulator of such systems is presented. Then, examples of agent architectures represented as hybrid networks are presented. One architecture is hand-designed and one is automatically optimized by means of evolutionary algorithm. Even on such a simple experiment, it can be observed how the evolution is able to pick-up unexpected attributes of the task and exploit them when designing new architecture.
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZALTERNATIVE SELECTION FUNCTIONS FOR INFORMATION SET MONTE CARLO TREE SEARCH
http://hdl.handle.net/10467/67160
ALTERNATIVE SELECTION FUNCTIONS FOR INFORMATION SET MONTE CARLO TREE SEARCH
Lisy , Viliam
We evaluate the performance of various selection methods for the Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm in two-player zero-sum extensive-form games with imperfect information. We compare the standard Upper Confident Bounds applied to Trees (UCT) along with the less common Exponential Weights for Exploration and Exploitation (Exp3) and novel Regret matching (RM) selection in two distinct imperfect information games: Imperfect Information Goofspiel and Phantom Tic-Tac-Toe. We show that UCT after initial fast convergence towards a Nash equilibrium computes increasingly worse strategies after some point in time. This is not the case with Exp3 and RM, which also show superior performance in head-to-head matches.
2014-01-01T00:00:00Z