Pleasure vs. Identity: More Eating Simulation Language in Meat Posts than Plant-based Posts on Social Media #foodtalk

Current levels of meat consumption in Western societies are unsustainable and contribute to the climate emergency. However, most people are not planning to reduce their intake. Here, we examine the language used on social media to describe meat and plant-based foods, since the ways people think and communicate about food could hinder the transition towards sustainable eating. We analysed the degree to which the language in food posts reflects eating simulations, which have been found to be associated with desire for foods. In two studies, we analysed the words used in Instagram post caption text (NStudy1 = 682) and hashtags (NStudy1 = 852; NStudy2 = 3104). As hypothesised, meat posts contained more eating simulation words than plant-based and vegetarian posts, which instead contained more health and identity words. This pattern may reflect polarization surrounding sustainable foods, which may hinder the shift towards plant-based diets needed to curb climate change.

Performance Evaluation of 5G/WiFi-6 Coexistence

The fifth-generation mobile communication network (5G) is the promising technology nowadays to provide not only a higher speed compared to 4G but also a revolution of services to cover different industrial sectors such as health, production, energy, and many. WiFi-6 is a new wireless local area network (WLAN) technology that is suitable to work in an office, home, and dense areas. As a new technology, 5G has some limitations concerning coverage and capacity. To overcome these limitations, one possible solution is to use the free unlicensed spectrum available in Wi-Fi technology, therefore, a complement solution of 5G/WiFi-6 coexistence is proposed to make both technologies complement each other in providing a better quality of service for the end-user concerning a higher speed, low latency, and higher capacity. According to OFDM modulation, the proposed model divides the cell into two virtual zones, the inner zone represents WiFi-6 technology surrounded by 5G technology. All resources will be shared between the two technologies taken into consideration that more bandwidth should be given to the most inner zone with high intensity of traffic. The call admission control algorithm will be based on a minimum bit rate to be given to each zone that should be satisfied to admit the call. The model is solved using MOSEL-2 simulation language, to study different performance parameters such as BER, utilization, blocking probability, latency, throughput, and aggregate average bit rate in both zones. The simulation results show that coexistence causes some degradation in 5G performance, however, a positive effect on the overall cell performance is achieved by balancing the load all over the whole cell.

powerLang: a probabilistic attack simulation language for the power domain

Cyber-attacks these threats, the cyber security assessment of IT and OT infrastructures can foster a higher degree of safety and resilience against cyber-attacks. Therefore, the use of attack simulations based on system architecture models is proposed. To reduce the effort of creating new attack graphs for each system under assessment, domain-specific languages (DSLs) can be employed. DSLs codify the common attack logics of the considered domain.Previously, MAL (the Meta Attack Language) was proposed, which serves as a framework to develop DSLs and generate attack graphs for modeled infrastructures. In this article, powerLang as a MAL-based DSL for modeling IT and OT infrastructures in the power domain is proposed. Further, it allows analyzing weaknesses related to known attacks. To comprise powerLang, two existing MAL-based DSL are combined with a new language focusing on industrial control systems (ICS). Finally, this first version of the language was validated against a known cyber-attack.

DSML4CS

Cyber physical systems (CPS's) are a kind of complex system with highly integrated interaction between computing resources and physical environment in a network environment. There are some challenges in modeling and simulation of heterogeneous CPS due to its hybrid and heterogenous characteristics. To address the issue, we propose an executable domain specific modeling language for co-simulation (DSML4CS) to model the co-simulation of CPS. According to the construction method of domain modeling language, we present the abstract syntax, concrete syntax and operational semantics of DSML4CS. We also propose a flexible co-simulation mechanism, which supports partial step revision of specific co-simulation process with the state event fault-tolerant mechanism. The co-simulation language for heterogeneous CPS is implemented based on the GEMOC platform. Our aim is to provide the co-simulation service in CPS. The usability of DSML4CS is illustrated with a case study of a temperature control system in an energy-aware building.

Use of simulation by modelling of conveyor belt contact forces

Intelligent conveyors include a large number of sensors and also signalling devices. So-called digital twin presents an advantage that creates a virtual image of a real conveyor. Simulation of the conveyor by simulation language can be an example of a tool of a conveyor virtual image. Simulation allows to test the proposed changes and in the case of functionality, to use the changes in the real operation of pipe conveyor. The paper presents the description of the simulated regression model of conveyor and realized simulation experiments within the regression model of pipe conveyor.