Catching Elves in Argentina

Santa Claus - with Mobile Reindeer and Elves

Mobile processes, along with mobile channels, enable process networks to be dynamic: they may change their size (number of processes, channels, barriers) and shape (connection topology) as they run – much like living organisms. One of the benefits is that all connections do not have to be established statically, in advance of when they are needed and open to abuse. In classical occam, care had ...

Beyond the Elves: Making Intelligent Agents Intelligent

(Chalupsky et al. 2001, 2002) at the University of Southern California (USC) was to develop software agents to support human organizations. The project was quite successful with impressive prototypes and many papers on the research. In fact, DARPA, which funded the project, was so enthusiastic about the results that it asked us to deploy a version of the Elves for use at DARPA. The original app...

Electric Elves: What Went Wrong and Why

tants, particularly for office environments, is of continued and growing research interest (Scerri, Pynadath, and Tambe 2002; Maheswaran et al. 2004; Modi and Veloso 2005; Pynadath and Tambe 2003).1 The goal is to provide software agent assistants for individuals in an office as well as software agents that represent shared office resources. The resulting set of agents coordinate as a team to f...

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Modeling elves observed by FORMOSAT-2 satellite

[1] The ISUAL experiment on the FORMOSAT-2 satellite has confirmed the existence of ionization and Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) band emissions in elves. In this paper, an in-depth study of the ISUAL recorded elves was carried out. Numerical simulation results of elves based on an electromagnetic finite difference time domain (FDTD) model of the emissions between 185–800 nm and of their spatial-te...