Although language is an effective vehicle for communication, it is unclear how linguistic and communicative abilities relate to each other. Some researchers have argued that communicative message generation involves perspective taking (mentalizing), and-crucially-that mentalizing depends on language. We employed a verbal communication paradigm to directly test whether the generation of a commun...

Resource reallocationproblems aim todetermine an allocationmaximizing a given objective function. Numerous applications are based on the assumption of restricted contacts between entities but, up to now, studies have been based on unrealistic contexts. Indeed, most of the time, agents are omniscient and/or have complete communication abilities, which are not plausible assumptions in many applic...

Increasing interest in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) in different applications has imposed new requirements on the design of IVAs. On the one hand, these requirements include cognitive abilities, and on the other hand social and communication behaviour. The use of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) has been a successful approach to address the variety of evolving abilities needed by an IVA....

Locked-in syndrome is a neurological condition due to a brain disease or an injury affecting the brain stem. The symptoms are tetraplegia, double-sided facial paresis, anarthria/dysarthrophonia, dysphagia and reactive involuntary laughing and crying. Vertical eye movements are the only commonly remaining voluntary motor function. Although the linguistic abilities as well as intellectual and emo...

3 Early communication and cognition in children with Down's syndrome The focus of our research has been on the relationship between communication and other cognitive abilities in children with Down’s syndrome. The aim has been to gain a better understanding of the early stages of language acquisition with these children. There is still considerable discussion about the way that language is acqu...

This paper focuses on two specific developments in writing pedagogy – discourse communities and genre knowledge – to guide engineering faculty in developing assignments that effectively foster the communication abilities needed in today’s engineering workplace. It outlines current research in these areas, defines critical concepts, and provides examples of how faculty might design assignments t...

Internet of Things The idea of the Internet of Things is to extend the Internet from a network of computers to a network of things, i.e., general smart objects with enhanced communication abilities. Or put another way, the Internet of Things enables embedded devices to behave and offer similar services as conventional internet nodes. Among the many example applications that are being discussed ...

The effectiveness of coordination within a multi-agent system depends largely on the abilities of the agents to cooperate and communicate. In environments where coordination is essential for goal accomplishment, agents must thus appropriately communicate for cooperative task achievement. We investigate two communication protocols (centralised and distributed) in learning and non-learning agent ...

background: the aim of the study was a recommendation and establishment the concept of the appropriate communication between public health, other competent services and population in emergency as the corner stone which guarantee that all goals which are important for community life will be achieved. methods: we used methodology appropriate for social science: analyses of documents, historical a...

Current technology enhances communication and forms of expression, enriching the setting of human interaction, the inter-subject space where experience is built and where comprehension and consensus around meaning are elaborated. All in all, this is the domain where the processes which intimately define the concept of culture truly take place, empowering incorporation into an association of pra...