Eco Agents

Author : Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540326144

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Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II by Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Environments for Multiagent Systems, E4MAS 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005, as an associated event of AAMAS 2005. The 16 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the lectures given at the workshop completed by a number of invited papers of prominent researchers active in the domain. The papers are organized in topical sections on models, architecture, and design, mediated coordination, as well as applications.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030202295

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Umatilla Depot Activity, Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions by Anonim Pdf

Author : William M. Lafferty,Katarina Eckerberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134056378

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From the Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21 by William M. Lafferty,Katarina Eckerberg Pdf

This collection of in-depth case studies emphasizes the diversity and inventiveness of local initiatives since the Rio 'Earth Summit' within different national settings. From the Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21offers a realistic counterpoint to the official monitoring and assessment procedures of national governments and international bodies. It highlights the problems of assessment and policy evaluation and clearly sets out the policy stages necessary for more effective realization of Local Agenda 21 objectives.

Author : Wenjun Zhang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814460651

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Computational Ecology: Graphs, Networks And Agent-based Modeling by Wenjun Zhang Pdf

Graphs, networks and agent-based modeling are the most thriving and attracting sciences used in ecology and environmental sciences. As such, this book is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject in the areas of ecology and environmental sciences.From this integrated and self-contained book, researchers, university teachers and students will be provided with an in-depth and complete insight on knowledge, methodology and recent advances of graphs, networks and agent-based-modeling in ecology and environmental sciences.Java codes and a standalone software package will be presented in the book for easy use for those not familiar with mathematical details.

Author : Aditya Ghose,Guido Governatori,Ramakoti Sadananda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642016387

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Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems by Aditya Ghose,Guido Governatori,Ramakoti Sadananda Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007, held in Bankok, Thailand, in November 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 11 application papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. Ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields, the papers address many current subjects in multi-agent research and development,

Author : Liam Cooper,Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811311680

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Urban Eco-Communities in Australia by Liam Cooper,Hans A. Baer Pdf

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne. These novel responses to the ecological crisis – real social laboratories that attempt to manifest a vision of the ‘eco-city’ in microcosm – offer substantial new insights into the concept and creation of sustainable urban communities, their attempts to cultivate ways of living that are socially and ecologically nourishing, and their often fraught relationship to the capitalist city beyond. These studies also suggest the opportunities and limitations of moving beyond demonstration projects towards wider urban transformation, as well as exposing the problems of accessibility and affordability that thwart further urban eco-interventions and the ways that existing projects can exacerbate issues of gentrification and privilege in a socially polarised city. Amidst the challenges of the capitalist city, climate change and ecological crisis, this book offers vital lessons on the potential of urban sustainability in future cities.

Author : Christoph Bussler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540229599

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Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications by Christoph Bussler Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2004, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2004. The 52 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontology engineering, semantic Web services, knowledge representation and processing, machine learning and data mining, natural language processing, soft computing, neural networks, e-learning systems, multiagent systems, pattern recognition, intelligent decision making, and information retrieval.

Author : Jozef Kelemen,Alica Kelemenová
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642199998

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Computation, Cooperation, and Life by Jozef Kelemen,Alica Kelemenová Pdf

Gheorghe Păun has played an important role within a wide range of disciplines, from the foundations of traditional computation theory and formal language theory to research gaining its inspiration from living nature. He has significantly contributed to the development of these diverse fields, initiating and pioneering some of them with remarkable imaginativeness and enthusiasm. Gheorghe Păun’s research focusses on systems inspired by structures and processes found in living systems, with the field of membrane computing or P systems being the most important of his initiatives. This Festschrift volume, published to honor Gheorghe Păun on the occasion of his 60th birthday, includes 16 contributions by his students and collaborators. The research presented aims to gain a better understanding of what computation is, to find better models of computation, and to look for new computing devices inspired by the structure and/or functioning of natural or societal systems. The papers are preceded by an introduction by Solomon Marcus, Gheorghe Păun’s lifelong teacher and mentor, and are organized in topical sections on general computing, grammar systems, membrane systems, and inspirations from natural computing.

Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789280525465

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Green Technology Diffusion: The Case of Ecosan Waterless Toilets by World Intellectual Property Organization Pdf

Eco Sanitation Limited, based in South Africa, produces, distributes, and markets the EcoSan waterless toilet, a sanitation system that converts human waste into dehydrated, compostable material.

Author : Mathieu Capcarrere,Alex A. Freitas,Peter J. Bentley,Colin G. Johnson,Jon Timmis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540318163

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Advances in Artificial Life by Mathieu Capcarrere,Alex A. Freitas,Peter J. Bentley,Colin G. Johnson,Jon Timmis Pdf

TheArti?cialLifetermappearedmorethan20yearsagoinasmallcornerofNew Mexico, USA. Since then the area has developed dramatically, many researchers joining enthusiastically and research groups sprouting everywhere. This frenetic activity led to the emergence of several strands that are now established ?elds in themselves. We are now reaching a stage that one may describe as maturer: with more rigour, more benchmarks, more results, more stringent acceptance criteria, more applications, in brief, more sound science. This, which is the n- ural path of all new areas, comes at a price, however. A certain enthusiasm, a certain adventurousness from the early years is fading and may have been lost on the way. The ?eld has become more reasonable. To counterbalance this and to encourage lively discussions, a conceptual track, where papers were judged on criteria like importance and/or novelty of the concepts proposed rather than the experimental/theoretical results, has been introduced this year. A conference on a theme as broad as Arti?cial Life is bound to be very - verse,but a few tendencies emerged. First, ?elds like ‘Robotics and Autonomous Agents’ or ‘Evolutionary Computation’ are still extremely active and keep on bringing a wealth of results to the A-Life community. Even there, however, new tendencies appear, like collective robotics, and more speci?cally self-assembling robotics, which represent now a large subsection. Second, new areas appear.

Author : Ramakoti Sadananada
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540367079

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Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems by Ramakoti Sadananada Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006, held in Guilin, China, in August 2006. The book presents 39 revised full papers and 57 revised short papers together with 4 invited talks, addressing subjects from theoretical and methodological issues to applications. Topics include agent models, agent architectures, agent-oriented software engineering, semantic Web service, collaboration, coordination and negotiation, and more.

Author : Salvatore Sessa
Publisher : Physica
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783790818154

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Soft Computing Agents by Salvatore Sessa Pdf

In the existing literature the intersection of agent technology with soft computing is a very recent and attractive issue. The book is devoted to a unifying perspective of this topic. In contains contributions by well-known authors whose expertise is universally recognized in these crossing areas. Particular emphasis is devoted to advanced research projects involved with Web-related technologies. Fundamental topics explored in this volume are: - formal theories and logics to represent and handle imprecise communication acts among communities of agents; - soft-computing approaches to define distributed problem-solving techniques to represent and reason about large-scale control systems; - decomposition of a complex system into autonomous or semiautonomous agents through evolutionary models; - enrichment of agent programming paradigm for cooperative soft-computing processing.

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226727238

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Economics--Mathematical Politics Or Science of Diminishing Returns? by Alexander Rosenberg Pdf

"Economics will never be able to move beyond these vague predictions because it treats human behavior - individual and social - as the product of expectations and preferences - beliefs and desires - the variables that cannot be measured independently of the actual choices we want to predict. These factors, combined with the economist's commitment to the search for equilibrium solutions to theoretical problems, condemn economic theory to permanent predictive weakness. In the end, Rosenberg's analysis is not merely a critique. His aim is to redefine the scope and value of neoclassical theory, suggesting that its character and most important accomplishments need to be correctly understood to defend economics against the charge that it is a science of diminishing returns."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sachchidanand Tripathi,Rahul Bhadouria,Rishikesh Singh,Pratap Srivastava,Rajkumari Sanayaima Devi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031480980

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Eco-Politics and Global Climate Change by Sachchidanand Tripathi,Rahul Bhadouria,Rishikesh Singh,Pratap Srivastava,Rajkumari Sanayaima Devi Pdf

This book provides an in-depth insight into the ecological perspective on a number of ongoing issues pertaining to security, the economy, the state, global environmental governance, development, and the environment. The chapters critically compare and analyze the role of global eco-politics in understanding and sorting out issues linked with climate change. Furthermore, it presents a contemporary and accessible description of why we need to embrace eco-politics in order to address the various ecological challenges that we face in the current changing climate scenario.

Author : Peter Bartelmus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402069666

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Quantitative Eco-nomics by Peter Bartelmus Pdf

This thought-provoking and colorful book cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics. Environmental accounts and empirical analyses provide operational concepts and measures of the sustainability of economic performance and growth. The text raises doubts, however, about the measurability of sustainable development. Further reading sections are provided at the end of each chapter.