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The Most Important Thing: Knowing Your Priorities

Regardles of your market, industry, context or situation, it is all about making decisions. Decision making hinges on identifying priorities, i.e. where to focus. Very often, if not always, one must cope with a limited budget (money, time, equipment, manpower, etc.) as well as constraints and conflicting requirements. And yet, decisions must be made, sometimes on the fly. Again, it is paramount…

The Most Important Thing: Knowing Your Priorities

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On Combinatorial Optimization

Combinatorial optimization is the process of searching for maxima (or minima) of an objective function F whose domain is a discrete but large configuration space. The space of possible solutions is typically too large to search exhaustively using pure brute force. In some cases, problems can be solved exactly using Branch and Bound techniques. However, in other cases no exact algorithms are…

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QCM Delivers Early Warning for Battery Thermal Runaway

QCM Delivers Early Warning for Battery Thermal Runaway

From https://dragonflyenergy.com/thermal-runaway/ “Perhaps one of the most significant drawbacks of using batteries is that they’re required to operate in a relatively narrow temperature range. The battery cells’ safety and stability depend on maintaining internal temperatures within specific limits. If the temperature exceeds the critical level on either end, thermal runaway can occur,…

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QCM Applied to Bridge Monitoring and Maintenance

QCM Applied to Bridge Monitoring and Maintenance

Bridges, regardless of type, must maintain their performance throughout their useful life. Maintaining these features requires continuous monitoring of its state of conservation so that the resources necessary to keep the bridge in service can be optimized, decide the optimal time for its replacement (from an economic perspective) or control the risks of maintaining its use in such a way as to…

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CAHMS Applications

The CAHMS – Complexity And Health Monitoring System – applications fall into two main categories: CAT 1: Analysis of real-time data from sensors located on a single mobile platform, such as aircraft, a submarine, a tank or a drone. CAT 2: Analysis of real-time data from sensors located on multiple objects, such as swarms of drones or soldiers engaged in a battle operation. In both cases, the…

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Assessing Anesthetic Depth using Complexity

Assessing Anesthetic Depth using Complexity

Anesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical purposes. General anesthesia suppresses central nervous system activity and results in unconsciousness and total lack of sensation, using either injected or inhaled drugs (e.g. propofol, a hypnotic). For obvious reasons, it is important to know the depth of anesthesia. One definition of…

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The CAMHS - A Complexity And Health Monitoring System

The CAMHS – A Complexity And Health Monitoring System

For on-board monitoring of critical components or systems, Ontonix offers the Complexity And Health Monitoring System (CAHMS) – an IoT Edge Gateway that can be mounted on tanks, land vehicles, aircraft, submarines or on any mission-critical equipment and deliver early warning signals of imminent systemic anomalies, before they materialize. The CAHMS is based on QCM (Quantitative Complexity…

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QCM-based Post-Strike Damage Assessment

QCM-based Post-Strike Damage Assessment

Consider an enemy network or infrastructure, such as the one shown below. The network composed of around fifty assets (nodes). It could be, for example, an energy distribution network or a telecomunication network. Suppose that the network must be destroyed or crippled in the context of an Offensive Cyber Operation (OCO) or a more conventional strike using ground or airborne assets. Let us also…

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