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BCEC
1997
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Task Allocation Inspired by a Model of Division of Labor in Social Insects
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Back stage on the front lines: perspectives and performance in the combat information center
While tactical command. control and communication environments might appear to be entirely instrumental in nature, they nevertheless provide a setting for social interaction. This...
Paul M. Aoki
ESAW
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Engineering Social Reality with Inheritance Relations
Abstract. In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level actness of the organisational concepts an...
Huib Aldewereld, Sergio Álvarez-Napagao, Fr...
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Empowerment: a universal agent-centric measure of control
Abstract- The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from...
Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing
Deaf and hard of hearing students are an underrepresented group in computing and face extra challenges in university-level computing courses. This paper describes a 9-week Summer ...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth