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Let us illustrate this with the mapping of a system of 16 particles on 16 processors. The diagonal processor Pu computes interactions in the (1,1)-block, which are interactions among particles (1,2,3,4), processor P22 computes interactions among particles (5,6, 7, 8), processor P33 computes interactions among particles (9,10,11,12) and processor P44 computes interactions... 

At the moment, most scientists and students, both in companies and at universities, use similar tools for the encoding processes described. But this was not the case in the past, when research was much more differentiated and fascinating with regard to the chemist-computer interaction. Some of these old-fashioned results are still impressive or some are still used, even now, as the following examples illustrate. 

Arestraint (not to be confused with a Model Builder constraint) is a user-specified one-atom tether, two-atom stretch, three-atom bend, or four-atom torsional interaction to add to the list of molecular mechanics interactions computed for a molecule. These added interactions are treated no differently from any other stretch, bend, or torsion, except that they employ a quadratic functional form. They replace no interaction, only add to the computed interactions. 

Woods, D. D., Roth, E. M. (1990). Cognitive Systems Engineering. In Helander, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Amsterdam North-Holland. 

Table 12-4. Computed interaction energy (AE) and counterpoise-corrected interaction energies (AECP) of the water dimer [kcal/mol]. The BSSE is given in parentheses.

SHRDLU was an example of a system that operated in a well-defined task domain and this software was an important steppingstone in the development of AI programs, enabling computer scientists to better understand how to construct expert systems and how to handle the user-computer interaction. However, the market for software that can rearrange children s blocks is limited and the development of the first ES in chemistry was a far more significant milestone in science. 

Usability Does the system at runtime provide an intuitive interface and easily support the users tasks Does this apply to all categories of users Building good business models so that system operations are designed as refinements of business tasks, and getting early user input on user-interfaces, are both important aspects of usability. There are also other, deeper issues of designing human-computer interactions that are outside our scope. 

Table 6.2 Computed interaction energies AE (kcal/mol), angles (deg) and separations (A) for...

Fig. 3.40 Plot of NMR binding (1/T2) (-A-) vs. N-alkyl hydrophobic fragment constants compared with an overlay plot of computed interaction energies vs. A/alkyl hydrophobic...

Molecular modeling studies correlate very well with the experimental observations [138]. The plot of the computed interaction energies versus lipophilicity mns parallel to the plot of 1/T2 versus lipophilicity (Figure 3.40). The result confirms the proposed conformational change with lengthening of the N-alkyl groups of the benzy-lamines. It is an example of the general model proposed by Herbette and coworkers... 

The precise tabulated formulae together with the essays on computation in Level 2 will let you compute interactions under a variety of instructive assumptions. 

Table 12-4. Computed interaction energies (in kcal/mol) of a single water molecule and a monomolecular water layer, respectively, with the two different (001) kaolinite surfaces...

It is not surprising that the Poisson-Boltzmann approach has been used frequently in computing interactions between charged entities. Mention may be made of the Gouy theory (Fig. 3.24) of the interaction between a charged electrode and the ions in a solution (see Chapter 6). Other examples are the distribution (Fig. 3.25) of electrons or holes inside a semiconductor in the vicinity of the semiconductor-electrolyte interface (see Chapter 6) and the distribution (Fig. 3.26) of charges near a polyelectrolyte molecule or a colloidal particle (see Chapter 6). 

In practice, models are often tailor-made and their use requires expertise. Budding interfaces, which take into account the special demands arising from man-computer interaction, can greatly expand the use of the models. 

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