In this paper we model the pathways commonly traversed as user innovations are transformed into commercial products. First, one or more users recognize a new set of design possibilities and begin to innovate. They then join into communities, motivated by the increased efficiency of collective innovation. User-manufacturers then emerge, using high variable cost / low-capital production methods. ...

MAS research pushes the notion of openness related to systems combining heterogeneous computational entities. Typically, those entities answer to different purposes and functions and their integration is a crucial issue. Starting from a comprehensive approach in developing agents, organizations and environments, this paper devises an integrated approach and describes a unifying programming mode...

Adam S. Jermyn,1,* Roger S. K. Mong,1 Jason Alicea,1 and Paul Fendley2 1Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4714, USA (Received 27 August 2014; revised manuscript received 23 September 2014; published 7 October 2014)

Christofas Stergianos , Jason Atkin , Patrick Schittekat , Tomas Eric Nordlander , Chris Gerada 1 and Herve Morvan 1 1 Institute for Aerospace Technology, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD United Kingdom {christofas.stergianos, jason.atkin, chris.gerada, herve.morvan}@nottingham.ac.uk 2 SINTEF ICT, Department of Applied Mathematics, Oslo, Norway {patrick.schittekat, tomas.nordlan...

Susceptibility to Acute Mouse Adenovirus Type 1 Respiratory Infection and 1 Establishment of Protective Immunity in Neonatal Mice 2 3 Megan C. Procario, Rachael E. Levine, Mary K. McCarthy, Eunnie Kim, Lingqiao Zhu, 4 Cheong-Hee Chang, Marc B. Hershenson, and Jason B. Weinberg 5 6 7 Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 8 Michigan 9 10 Department...

Open systems are characterized by a diversity of heterogeneous and autonomous agents that act according to private goals, and with a behavior that is hard to predict. They can be regulated through organizations similar to human organizations, which regulate the agents’ behavior space and describe the expected behavior of the agents. Agents need to be able to reason about the regulations, so tha...

Satellite altimetry data provide a solution to the lack of in situ tide gauge data, which are essential for comprehending various marine processes worldwide. In present study, we seek validate ALES-retrieved sea-level against observations from four ground stations on coast Mozambique. The approach consisted extracting selected tracks Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3 missions, processing it (i) remo...

In the first part, we prove that the number of (1, β)-BM relations is 3 ·5 · . . . · (2β+1), which was conjectured by Jason Kimberley. In the second part, we construct two isomorphisms between certain (2, 2)-BM groups. This completes the classification of (2, 2)-BM groups initiated in [4].

Mark A. Williams,1 Adam P. Morris,1 Francis McGlone,2 David F. Abbott,3 and Jason B. Mattingley1 1Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Behavioral Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia, 2Unilever Research Laboratories, Port Sunlight, Bebington, Wirral CH63 3JW, United Kingdom, and 3Brain Research Institute, Austin Health, Heidelberg West, Victoria 3081, Au...

Kevin D. Parrish,1 Ankit Jain,1 Jason M. Larkin,1 Wissam A. Saidi,2 and Alan J. H. McGaughey1,* 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA 2Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA (Received 19 June 2014; revised manuscript received 23 October 2014; publish...