Objects Agents And Features

Author : Mark D. Ryan,John-Jules Meyer,Hans-Dieter Ehrich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540219897

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Objects, Agents, and Features by Mark D. Ryan,John-Jules Meyer,Hans-Dieter Ehrich Pdf

This book is the outcome of an international research seminar on objects, agents, and features held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in February 2003. In recent years, concepts in object-oriented modeling and programming have been extended in variuos directions, giving rise to new paradigms such as agent-orientation and feature orientation. This book explores the relationship between the original paradigm and the two new ones. The 12 revised full papers presented together with an introductery overview by the volume editors were carefully reviewed and improved for publication. Among the topics addressed are agent coordination in object-orientation, feature orientation, components and feature interaction, software evolution, agent modeling and analysis, agent interaction, component-based systems, formal specification of agents, and feature engineering.

Author : Nikolaos Skarmeas
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781783262328

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Agents as Objects with Knowledge Base State by Nikolaos Skarmeas Pdf

Advances in computer technology in general and computer networks in particular have significantly affected the requirements of modern applications, where the need to operate in decentralised environments is of primary importance. The conceptual models of the applications are also becoming complex and semantically rich. A promising technology towards the design and development of systems of such domains is agent based systems. Agents, having a knowledge component, act and interact with other agents and information sources in order to achieve some goals. Platforms intended for supporting the development of such systems should offer a number of features, including communication, concurrency, mobility, high level data structures, object orientation etc. This book describes the design and implementation of such a language platform called April++ and its use on a number of applications. Methodologically, in designing and implementing the language, a layered approach has been adopted. April++ has been developed as a series of macro defined layers on top of the relatively primitive features of a pre-existing language called April. On top of April++, an agent layer has been built (as a set of pre-defined classes) for constructing agent based systems. This layer has been customised for specific application domains considered. This includes a mobile agent application, a distributed database application and a network management one. Contents:Introduction:Background MaterialThe Building BlocksThe April++ Language:AprilO: Adding Objects to AprilAprilQ: The Database ExtensionApril++: Objects with Knowledge Base StateThe Implementation of April++The Applications:Component Based Agent ConstructionAn Agent for Multi-Service Network ManagementEpilogue Readership: Graduate students, academics and research scientists, agent oriented systems, distributed systems and applications developers, programming language designers and developers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428935907

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Federal budget agency obligations by budget function and object classification for fiscal year 2003 : report to the Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francesco Luna,Benedikt Stefansson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461546412

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Economic Simulations in Swarm: Agent-Based Modelling and Object Oriented Programming by Francesco Luna,Benedikt Stefansson Pdf

Computer simulations of economic systems are slowly gaining ground within the economic profession. However, such a process is hindered by a lack of communication among researchers who do not share a common language. For its object-oriented structure and its versatility, Swarm has the necessary characteristics to become a credible universal language of agent-based simulations. Economic Simulations in Swarm collects a series of original articles in such domains as macro and micro economics, industrial organization, monetary theory, and finance, all linked by a common denominator: the use of the Swarm simulation platform. Swarm, a standard set of program libraries, allows users to construct simulations where a collection of heterogeneous independent agents or elements interact through discrete events. This volume offers the first extensive tutorial to the use of these software libraries developed at the Santa Fe Institute as part of the ongoing research into complexity. The editors conceived the idea of this book while visiting the Santa Fe Institute as members of the `Working Group on Adaptive and Computable Economics'. Francesco Luna is a specialist in Computable Economics, and Benedikt Stefansson is an active contributor to the Swarm community.

Author : Nikolina Hatton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030491116

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The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832 by Nikolina Hatton Pdf

The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century. Examining texts as diverse as it-narratives, the juvenile writings and novels of Jane Austen, De Quincey’s autobiographical writings, and silver fork novels, Nikolina Hatton demonstrates how object agency is viewed in this period as constitutive—not just in regard to human subjectivity but also in aesthetic creation. Objects appear in these novels and short prose works as aids, intermediaries, adversaries, and obstructions, as well as both intimately connected to humans and strangely alien. Through close readings, the book traces how object agency, while sometimes perceived as a threat by authors and characters, also continues to be understood as a source of the delightfully unexpected—in everyday life as well as in narrative.

Author : Franco Cicirelli,Antonio Guerrieri,Carlo Mastroianni,Giandomenico Spezzano,Andrea Vinci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319965505

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The Internet of Things for Smart Urban Ecosystems by Franco Cicirelli,Antonio Guerrieri,Carlo Mastroianni,Giandomenico Spezzano,Andrea Vinci Pdf

The main objective of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary overview of methodological approaches, architectures, platforms, and algorithms for the realization of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE). Moreover, the book details a set of real-world applications and case studies related to specific smart infrastructures and smart cities, including structural health monitoring, smart urban drainage networks, smart grids, power efficiency, healthcare, city security, and emergency management. A Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE) is a people-centric system of systems that involves smart city environments, applications, and infrastructures. SUEs require the close integration of cyber and physical components for monitoring, understanding and controlling the urban environment. In this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) offers a valuable enabling technology, as it bridges the gap between physical things and software components, and empowers cooperation between distributed, pervasive, and heterogeneous entities.

Author : Amon Rapp,Maurizio Tirassa,Tom Ziemke
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889630028

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Cognition and Interaction: From Computers to Smart Objects and Autonomous Agents by Amon Rapp,Maurizio Tirassa,Tom Ziemke Pdf

Cognitive sciences have been involved under numerous accounts to explain how humans interact with technology, as well as to design technological instruments tailored to human needs. As technological advancements in fields like wearable and ubiquitous computing, virtual reality, robotics and artificial intelligence are presenting novel modalities for interacting with technology, there are opportunities for deepening, exploring, and even rethinking the theoretical foundations of human technology use. This volume entitled “Cognition and Interaction: From Computers to Smart Objects and Autonomous Agents” is a collection of articles on the impacts that novel 3 September Frontiers in Psychology 2019 | Cognition and Interaction interactive technologies are producing on individuals. It puts together 17 works, spanning from research on social cognition in human-robot interaction to studies on neural changes triggered by Internet use, that tackle relevant technological and theoretical issues in human-computer interaction, encouraging us to rethink how we conceptualize technology, its use and development. The volume addresses fundamental issues at different levels. The first part revolves around the biological impacts that technologies are producing on our bodies and brains. The second part focuses on the psychological level, exploring how our psychological characteristics may affect the way we use, understand and perceive technology, as well as how technology is changing our cognition. The third part addresses relevant theoretical problems, presenting reflections that aim to reframe how we conceptualize ourselves, technology and interaction itself. Finally, the last part of the volume pays attention to the factors involved in the design of technological artifacts, providing suggestions on how we can develop novel technologies closer to human needs. Overall, it appears that human-computer interaction will have to face a variety of challenges to account for the rapid changes we are witnessing in the current technology landscape.

Author : Alan Garnham,Jane Oakhill,Lisa von Stockhausen,Sabine Sczesny
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Science (General)
ISBN : 9782889198924

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Language, Cognition and Gender by Alan Garnham,Jane Oakhill,Lisa von Stockhausen,Sabine Sczesny Pdf

Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research shows that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Gender-related information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical category of gender, through gender-related connotations of role names (e.g., manager, secretary), and through customs of denoting social groups with derogatory vs. neutral names. Both as a formal system and as a means of communication, language passively reflects culture-specific social conditions. In active use it can also be used to express and, potentially, perpetuate those conditions. The questions addressed in the contributions to this Frontiers Special Topic include: • how languages shape the cognitive representations of gender • how features of languages correspond with gender equality in different societies • how language contributes to social behaviour towards the sexes • how gender equality can be promoted through strategies for gender-fair language use These questions are explored both developmentally (across the life span from childhood to old age) and in adults. The contributions present work conducted across a wide range of languages, including some studies that make cross-linguistic comparisons. Among the contributors are both cognitive and social psychologists and linguists, all with an excellent research standing. The studies employ a wide range of empirical methods: from surveys to electro-physiology. The papers in the Special Topic present a wide range of complimentary studies, which will make a substantial contribution to understanding in this important area.

Author : Deborah Levison,Mary Jo Maynes,Frances Vavrus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030636326

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Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents by Deborah Levison,Mary Jo Maynes,Frances Vavrus Pdf

This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social processes and culturally-specific discourses; as objects of policy intervention and other adult power plays; and also as active agents who act on their world and make meaning even amidst conditions of social, political, and economic marginalization. In addition, the book is centrally engaged with questions about how researchers take into consideration children’s and young people’s own conceptions of themselves and how we conceptualize child and youth potentials for agency at different ages and stages of growing up. Each chapter discusses substantive research but also engages in self-reflection about methodology, positionality, and/or disciplinarity, thus making the volume especially useful for teaching. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls’ studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public policy, cultural studies, gender and women’s studies and global studies.

Author : Jouko Väänänen,Åsa Hirvonen,Ruy de Queiroz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783662529218

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Logic, Language, Information, and Computation by Jouko Väänänen,Åsa Hirvonen,Ruy de Queiroz Pdf

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Communication, WoLLIC 2016, held in Puebla, Mexico, in August 2016.The 23 contributed papers, presented together with 9 invited lectures and tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The focus of the workshop is to provide a forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning.

Author : Michal Pechoucek,Paolo Petta,Laszlo Zsolt Varga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540317319

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV by Michal Pechoucek,Paolo Petta,Laszlo Zsolt Varga Pdf

The aim of the CEEMAS conference series is to provide a biennial forum for the presentation of multi-agent research and development results. With its p- ticular geographicalorientation towards Central and Eastern Europe, CEEMAS has become an internationally recognised event with participants from all over the world. After the successful CEEMAS conferences in St. Petersburg (1999), Cracow (2001) and Prague (2003), the 2005 CEEMAS conference takes place in Budapest. The programme committee of the conference series consists of est- lished researchers from the region and renowned international colleagues, sh- ing the prominent rank of CEEMAS among the leading events in multi-agent systems. In the very competitive ?eld of agent oriented conferences and workshops nowadays(suchasAAMAS,WI/IAT,EUMAS,CIA,MATES)thespecialpro?le of CEEMAS is that it is trying to bridge the gap between applied research achievements and theoretical research activities. Our ambition is to provide a forum for presenting theoretical research with an evident application potential, implemented application prototypes and their properties, as well as industrial case studies of successful (but also unsuccessful) agent technology deployments. This is why the CEEMAS proceedings volume provides a collection of research and application papers. The technical research paper section of the proceedings (see pages 11–499) contains pure research papers as well as research results in application settings while the application papers section (see pages 500–530) contains papers focused on application aspects. The goal is to demonstrate the real life value and commercial reality of multi-agent systems as well as to foster communication between academia and industry in this ?eld.

Author : Usha Goswami
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781444351736

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The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development by Usha Goswami Pdf

This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitive development and language Provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development Spans aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence Includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development and current theoretical perspectives

Author : Alistair G. Sutcliffe,Frans van Assche,David Benyon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387350592

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Domain Knowledge for Interactive System Design by Alistair G. Sutcliffe,Frans van Assche,David Benyon Pdf

This book describes how domain knowledge can be used in the design of interactive systems. It includes discussion of the theories and models of domain, generic domain architectures and construction of system components for specific domains. It draws on research experience from the Information Systems, Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction communities.

Author : Lex naturae (pseud.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590601655

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War: its object and its patrons: its influence as an agent of despotic power by Lex naturae (pseud.) Pdf

Author : Matthew Taylor,Karl Tuyls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642118142

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Adaptive Learning Agents by Matthew Taylor,Karl Tuyls Pdf

ThisbookpresentsselectedandrevisedpapersoftheSecondWorkshoponAd- tive and Learning Agents 2009 (ALA-09), held at the AAMAS 2009 conference in Budapest, Hungary, May 12. The goalof ALA is to provide an interdisciplinaryforum for scientists from a variety of ?elds such as computer science, biology, game theory and economics. This year’s edition of ALA was the second after the merger of the former wo- shops ALAMAS and ALAg. In 2008 this joint workshop was organized for the ?rst time under the ?ag of both events. ALAMAS was a yearly returning Eu- pean workshop on adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems (held eight times). ALAg was the international workshop on adaptive and learning agents, which was usually held at AAMAS. To increase the strength, visibility and quality of the workshop it was decided to merge both workshops under the ?ag of ALA and to set up a Steering Committee as an organizational backbone. This book contains six papers presented during the workshop, which were carefully selected after an additional review round in the summer of 2009. We therefore wish to explicitly thank the members of the Program Committee for the quality and sincerity of their e?orts and service. Furthermore we would like to thank all the members of the senior Steering Committee for making this workshop possible and supporting it with sound advice. We also thank the AAMAS conference for providing us a platform for holding this event. Finally we also wish to thank all authors who responded to our call-for-papers with interesting contributions.