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CIA
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication
When we communicate with others in a most primitive way like face-to-face conversation, we normally gather at a common physical place. This physical constraint has been recognized ...
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yasuhiro Mawarimichi, Shoji Tat...
IROS
2008
IEEE
172views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
HybridExploration: A distributed approach to terrain exploration using mobile and fixed sensor nodes
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni, Mark Levene
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Perspectives and challenges of agent-based simulation as a tool for economics and other social sciences
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
Klaus G. Troitzsch
EDM
2010
150views Data Mining» more  EDM 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Modeling Learning Trajectories with Epistemic Network Analysis: A Simulation-based Investigation of a Novel Analytic Method for
Epistemic games are designed to help players develop domain-specific expertise that characterizes how professionals in a particular domain reason, communicate, and act [1, 11]. To ...
Andre A. Rupp, Shauna J. Sweet, Younyoung Choi
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
P2P Second Life: Experimental Validation Using Kad
: Applications such as Second Life require massive deployment of servers worldwide to support a large number of users. We investigate experimentally how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communic...
Matteo Varvello, C. Diout, Ernst W. Biersack