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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Individual agents"”.
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Theories, experiments, and human agents: the controversy between emissionists and undulationists in Britain, 1827-1859
… coincide with modern cognitive judgements, and individual agents played decisive roles in determining how long a debate lasted and how it would end. On the basis of the historical narrative, I provide a philosophical analysis of the practices of theory appraisal and experiment appraisal that …
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Internationalisation and the pursuit of a developmental settlement : the case of a South African university
… international research agenda and its focus on individual agents and collective individual agents as facilitators of that research agenda, allows it to pursue a “developmental settlement” while internationalising. Although it is marked by contestations and contradictions, the pursuit of this …
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Institutions, contracts, and asset market prices
… looks at the effect of tournament contracts for individuals on individual behavior in non-market settings (public good provision, team tasks, etc.). In contrast, this work investigates the effect of tournament contracts for individual agents on market performance. In particular, this work …
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Modeling, Analysis and Comparison of Large Scale Social Contact Networks on Epidemic Studies
… represent proximity relationships between individual agents. Such networks are useful in diverse applications, including epidemiology, wireless networking and urban resilience. The vertices of a social contact network represent individual agents (e.g. people). Time varying edges represent …
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Projektierbares Multiagentensystem für die Ablaufsteuerung in der flexibel automatisierten Fertigung
… the rapid development and deployment of control agents in distributed PC-environments where individual agents can be easily adapted to the specific needs of individual manufacturing systems.
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Should We Give Every Cow Its Calf? Monopoly, Competition and Transaction Costs in the Promotion of Innovation and Creativity
… around three specific questions. First, how do individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents? Second, how does this translate into the aggregate production of knowledge, …
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Land use change through market dynamics : a Microsimulation of land development, the bidding process, and location choices of households and firms
… Real estate markets involve numerous interactive agents and real estate with a great level of heterogeneity. In the absence of tractable theory for realistic real estate markets, this research takes a “bottom-up” approach and simulates the behavior of tens of thousands of individual agents based …
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ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΥΣΤΑΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΕ ΘΕΩΡΙΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΑΙΟΥ (THOMAS HOBBES-JOHN LOCKE)
… HOBBES' POLITICAL THEORY IS APPROACHED AS AN INDIVIDUALISTIC MODEL SETTING AS ITS STARTING-POINT THE SELFISH GOALS OF INDIVIDUAL AGENTS IN SOCIETY, WHILE LOCKE'S POLITICAL THEORY ISAPPROACHED AS A MODEL COMMITTED TO THE VALUES OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY AS PREMISES FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE …
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Performance engineering of the StarLogo Nova Execution Engine
… explore the collective behavior of decentralized agents. Users can drag and drop blocks to construct graphical scripts that control how individual agents respond to stimuli. These scripts are run by the Execution Engine and rendered in real-time. By investigating hypotheses about how small tweaks …
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Implementing a hybrid spatial discretisation within an agent based evacuation model
… dynamics models, the physical space in which the agents move and interact is represented in some way. Models typically use one of three basic approaches to represent space namely a continuous representation of space, a fine network of nodes or a coarse network of nodes. Each approach has its …
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The Effectiveness of Social Plan Sharing in Online Planning in POMDP-type domains
This work examines how individual Partially Observable Markov Decision Process planning performance can be improved through the group-sharing of previous experiences and plans. Individual agents make use of a cache to map between beliefs and appropriate actions. Cache entries are shared between two …
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Resource Efficient and Scalable Routing using Intelligent Mobile Agents
… and message passing shifts from the nodes to individual agents that traverse the network, co-ordinate with each other and successively update the routing tables of the nodes they visit.
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Anomalous transport in complex networks
… (correlated) waitingtime distributions of individual agents. We use empirical data from US air travel to constrain the model parameters and validate the model's predictions of traffic patterns. We formulate a theory that identifies the most influential spreaders from the point of view of …
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Fast distributed first-order methods
… of local objective functions privately known to individual agents. In our methods, each agent iteratively updates its estimate of the global optimum by optimizing its local function and exchanging estimates with others in the network. We introduce distributed proximal-gradient methods that enable …
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To Learn Weaving Below the Rock: Making Zapotec Textiles and Artisans in Teotitlan Del Valle, Mexico
… and culturally-specific daily practices of individual agents."
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Communication as Ontology for a Structurationist Approach to Role Enactment
… is presented. This model focuses on how individual agents use societal and organizational rules and resources as symbols to mutually create, recreate, give meaning to, and negotiate power relationships (qua structures) in an organizational context. Specifically, this study examines the …
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Using simulations to predict the genetic connectivity of the Mojave desert tortoise
… which simulate the behavior and life-history of individual "agents". Agent-based models allow researchers to investigate the impacts of habitat fragmentation under many scenarios, which is useful for guiding conservation actions. However, because agent-based models are computationally intense, …
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Insect Inspired Behavioral Strategies for Improving Multi-Agent System Resilience in the Presence of Contagious Faults
… that provide measurable resilience to faulted agents. However, these strategies often require group consensus, specialized observer agents, or identification of faulted agents, which can weaken overall system performance. When looking for efficient solutions to engineering problems one possible …
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Application of Agent Based Modeling to Insurance Cycles
… (or utility) maximization. Therefore these individual players in the traditional models can be implemented as a single representative economic agent with full rationality to solve the utility optimization. To investigate insurance pricing (or underwriting) cycles, the existing literature …
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Enhancing Natural Language Inference through Multi-Agent Deliberation
… richness of the information exchanged between agents. To investigate this, we designed a systematic 3x4 experimental matrix to test three prompting strategies (from basic responses to step-by-step reasoning) against four deliberation protocols (individual baseline, self-deliberation, peer …
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