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4 Score of Similarity between Related Words and User's Intent |
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Verification of the Effect of Introducing an Agent in a Prediction Market |
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3 Current Research and Problems |
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4 Experiment Outline and Discussion |
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2 A Cognitive Map Network Model |
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3 Analysis of the Economic System with the CM Network Model |
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Coordination Strategies and Techniques in Distributed Intelligent Systems---Applications |
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4 Healthcare---Monitoring Glucose Levels |
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5 Communications Networks |
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Multi-Agent Area Coverage Using a Single Query Roadmap: A Swarm Intelligence Approach |
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2 Preliminaries and Related Works |
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3 Weighted Multi-Agent RRT |
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5 Exploration of WMA-RRT Roadmap |
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6 Implementation and Experimental Results |
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An Approach for Learnable Context-Awareness System by Reflecting User Feedback |
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4 Simulated Experimentation |
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A Hybrid Multi-Agent Framework for Load Management in Power Grid Systems |
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129 | (20) |
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3 Framework Architecture and Detailed Design |
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Part II Agent-Based Simulation for Complex Systems: Application to Economics, Finance and Social Sciences |
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Financial Frictions and Money-Driven Variability in Velocity |
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2 Cash-in-Advance Model Economy |
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2.3 Equilibrium of the Economy |
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2.4 State Space and Functional Forms of the Economy |
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154 | (2) |
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156 | (3) |
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4 Business Cycle Properties |
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159 | (6) |
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4.2 Model Economy Steady States |
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160 | (1) |
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4.3 Velocity at Serially Correlated Money Growth Rates |
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161 | (4) |
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165 | (1) |
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Automated Fuzzy Bidding Strategy Using Agent's Attitude and Market Competition |
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167 | (14) |
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167 | (1) |
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2 Fuzzy Competition and Attitude Based Bidding Strategy (FCA-Bid) |
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168 | (6) |
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170 | (1) |
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2.3 Competition Assessment |
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172 | (2) |
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2.4 Agent Price Determination |
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174 | (1) |
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3 Experimental Evaluations |
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174 | (5) |
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179 | (1) |
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Resource Allocation Analysis in Perfectly Competitive Virtual Market with Demand Constraints of Consumers |
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181 | (20) |
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181 | (1) |
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2 Virtual Market Structure |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (4) |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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4 Computer Simulation and Experimental Results |
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187 | (12) |
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4.1 Exchange Market Analysis |
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188 | (4) |
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4.2 Economic Market Analysis |
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192 | (7) |
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199 | (1) |
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Market Participant Estimation by Using Artificial Market |
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201 | (16) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (2) |
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2.1 Artificial Market Framework |
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202 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (1) |
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3 Market-Participant Estimation Using Inverse Simulation |
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204 | (2) |
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204 | (1) |
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3.2 Artificial Market Parameters |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (1) |
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4.1 Fundamentalist Agents |
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207 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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5 Simulation for Estimating Market Participants |
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209 | (4) |
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209 | (1) |
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5.2 Results of Simulation |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (3) |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (4) |
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A Study on the Market Impact of Short-Selling Regulation Using Artificial Markets |
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217 | (16) |
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218 | (1) |
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2 Construction of Artificial Markets |
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219 | (3) |
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2.2 Modeling of an Agent Influenced by the Trading Rules of High-Performance Agents |
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221 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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3.1 Price Variation in the Markets |
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222 | (4) |
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226 | (3) |
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3.3 The Market Model in Which the Market Price Affects the Theoretical Price |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (2) |
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Learning a Pension Investment in Consideration of Liability through Business Game |
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233 | (18) |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (4) |
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2.1 System of Business Game |
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235 | (1) |
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235 | (4) |
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239 | (9) |
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3.1 Case Where Player Has Not Received Professional Training (Student) |
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240 | (4) |
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3.2 Case Where Player Has Received Professional Training (Institutional Investor Affiliation Member) |
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244 | (4) |
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248 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (2) |
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An Agent-Based Implementation of the Todaro Model |
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251 | (16) |
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251 | (2) |
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253 | (2) |
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3 The Migration Agent-Based Model |
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255 | (4) |
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255 | (1) |
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256 | (1) |
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257 | (2) |
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259 | (5) |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (2) |
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262 | (2) |
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264 | (1) |
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New Types of Metrics for Urban Road Networks Explored with S3: An Agent-Based Simulation Platform |
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267 | (20) |
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Cyrille Genre-Grandpierre |
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1 Why Trying to Change the Current Road Networks "Metric"? |
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267 | (3) |
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1.1 The Farther You Go the More Efficient Is the Road Network |
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267 | (1) |
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1.2 The Indirect Effects of the Current Metric |
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268 | (1) |
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1.3 Traffic Lights for a "Slow Metric" |
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269 | (1) |
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2 Smart Slow Speed (S3): An Agent-Based Simulation Platform |
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270 | (5) |
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2.1 Traffic Lights: Choosing Location and Time Duration |
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270 | (3) |
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2.2 A Microscopic Traffic Model |
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273 | (2) |
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275 | (8) |
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3.1 The Metric of the Road Network Depends on |
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275 | (4) |
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3.2 Exploration of the Traffic Model |
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279 | (4) |
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283 | (1) |
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284 | (3) |
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Impact of Tenacity upon the Behaviors of Social Actors |
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287 | (24) |
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287 | (1) |
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2 The Sociology of Organized Action |
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288 | (1) |
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3 The Meta-Model of Organizations |
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289 | (2) |
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291 | (3) |
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4.1 The Prisonner Dilemma |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (2) |
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294 | (4) |
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5.1 A Bounded Rationality Algorithm for Actors' Cooperation |
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294 | (2) |
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5.2 The Main Parameters of the Algorithm |
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296 | (2) |
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298 | (4) |
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299 | (1) |
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300 | (2) |
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302 | (2) |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (6) |
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Part III Agent Technology for Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Management |
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Dynamic Role Assignment for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Robotic Systems |
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311 | (16) |
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311 | (2) |
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2 Organizational Approach for Multi-robot Systems Overview |
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313 | (2) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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3 Dynamic Role Assignment |
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315 | (4) |
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315 | (1) |
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3.2 Role Assignment Protocol |
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316 | (2) |
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3.3 Example of Role Assignment |
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318 | (1) |
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319 | (3) |
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4.1 Validation Scenarios Design and Setup |
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319 | (2) |
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4.2 Push vs. Pull and Optimizations |
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321 | (1) |
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4.3 Impacts of Robots' Density |
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321 | (1) |
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5 Discussion and Open Issues |
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322 | (2) |
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5.1 Toward a Generic Solution |
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322 | (1) |
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5.2 System Re-organization |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (1) |
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325 | (2) |
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Multi-agent System for Blackout Prevention by Means of Computer Simulations |
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327 | (12) |
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327 | (1) |
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2 The Rice Power Distribution Network Simulator |
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328 | (2) |
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329 | (1) |
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3 Model Situation Implementation |
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330 | (6) |
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331 | (1) |
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331 | (2) |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (2) |
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336 | (1) |
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336 | (3) |
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Asking for Help Through Adaptable Autonomy in Robotic Search and Rescue |
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339 | (20) |
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339 | (2) |
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341 | (2) |
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343 | (2) |
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345 | (4) |
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345 | (2) |
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347 | (2) |
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349 | (6) |
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349 | (3) |
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352 | (3) |
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355 | (1) |
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7 Conclusion and Future Work |
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355 | (1) |
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356 | (3) |
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Conceptual Framework for Design of Service Negotiation in Disaster Management Applications |
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359 | (18) |
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359 | (3) |
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362 | (1) |
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363 | (9) |
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364 | (1) |
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364 | (2) |
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366 | (3) |
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3.4 Levels in Negotiation Specification |
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369 | (1) |
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370 | (2) |
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372 | (1) |
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5 Conclusions and Future Work |
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373 | (1) |
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374 | (3) |
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An Optimized Solution for Multi-Agent Coordination Using Integrated GA-Fuzzy Approach in Rescue Simulation Environment |
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377 | (12) |
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377 | (1) |
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2 Environment Categorizing |
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378 | (2) |
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2.2 Parameters Definition |
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380 | (1) |
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3 Extracting Solutions to Defined Situations |
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380 | (3) |
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381 | (1) |
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3.3 Crossover and Mutation |
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382 | (1) |
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4 Generalizing Using Fuzzy Logic |
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383 | (2) |
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4.1 Fuzzy Sets and Membership Functions |
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383 | (2) |
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385 | (1) |
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385 | (2) |
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387 | (1) |
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387 | (1) |
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A Study of Map Data Influence on Disaster and Rescue Simulation's Results |
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389 | (14) |
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389 | (1) |
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2 Agent Based Disaster and Rescue Simulation for Practical Usage |
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390 | (2) |
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2.1 Role of Disaster and Rescue Simulation |
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390 | (1) |
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2.2 RoboCup Rescue Simulation System |
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391 | (1) |
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3 Map Generation from Public GIS Data |
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392 | (3) |
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392 | (1) |
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3.2 Creation Simulation Map from Open Source GIS Data |
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393 | (2) |
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4 Simulation Sensitivity of Environments to Simulations |
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395 | (6) |
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4.1 Created Maps from Open Source Data |
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395 | (2) |
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4.2 Sensitivity Analysis of Maps to Simulations |
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397 | (1) |
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4.3 Sensitivity Analysis of Rescue Agents to Simulation Results |
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398 | (3) |
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401 | (1) |
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Evaluation of Time Delay of Coping Behaviors with Evacuation Simulator |
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403 | (12) |
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403 | (1) |
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2 Evacuation Planning Assist System |
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404 | (5) |
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2.2 Prediction System of Indoor Gas Diffusion |
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408 | (1) |
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409 | (1) |
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409 | (4) |
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412 | (1) |
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Web-Based Sensor Network with Flexible Management by an Agent System |
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415 | (10) |
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415 | (1) |
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2 Architecture and Function of the Agent System |
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416 | (5) |
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418 | (1) |
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2.3 Distributed Data Processing |
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420 | (1) |
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421 | (1) |
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4 Discussion and Future Work |
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422 | (1) |
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423 | (2) |
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Sensor Network Architecture Based on Web and Agent for Long-Term Sustainable Observation in Open Fields |
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425 | (10) |
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425 | (1) |
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3 Web Devices for Pure Web |
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426 | (2) |
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4 Experiments Using Field Server |
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428 | (2) |
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5 Results and Discussions |
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430 | (2) |
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432 | (1) |
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433 | (2) |
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A Multi-Agent View of the Sensor Web |
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435 | (10) |
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435 | (2) |
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437 | (2) |
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3 Sensor Webs and Multi-Agent Systems |
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439 | (1) |
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4 Using Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques in Sensor Web |
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440 | (2) |
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4.1 Including Multi-Agent Facilitators in Sensor Web |
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440 | (1) |
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4.2 Building Trust Based on Reputations |
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441 | (1) |
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5 Conclusion and Future Work |
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443 | (2) |
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