Adaptive Performance Network?: Is it the Answer to our Prayers?

Adaptive Performance Network ? Is it the Answer to our Prayers ?

[Bak] has introduced a new class of adaptive networks, which tries to function in a volatile environment. The resulting dynamics, called adaptiue performance networks, show uctuation over a wide range of time scales. We introduce some guide lines for training and testing these new type of networks, which will be used to examine the power of these networks.

Systematic Reviews: Perhaps “The Answer to Policy Makers’ Prayers”?

Four articles in this issue demonstrate effective adaptation of the methodology of systematic reviews to environmental health science (Johnson et al. 2014; Koustas et al. 2014; Lam et al. 2014; Woodruff and Sutton 2014). Researchers in many countries and disciplines have participated in developing this methodology for more than a century and have used it to synthesize evidence from primary sour...

robotic anesthesia: how is it going to change our practice?

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Multiagent learning is not the answer. It is the question

The article by Shoham, Powers, and Grenager called “If multi-agent learning is the answer, what is the question?” does a great job of laying out the current state of the art and open issues at the intersection of game theory and artificial intelligence (AI). However, from the AI perspective, the term “multiagent learning” applies more broadly than can be usefully framed in game theoretic terms....