In the pair of papers of which this is Part I, the agent-oriented modeling perspective to cope with biological complexity is discussed. Three levels of dynamics are distinguished and related to each other: dynamics of externally observable agent behavior, dynamics of internal agent processes, and dynamics of multi-agent organisations. Basic agent concepts to describe externally observable agent...

Separation of concerns (SoC) and modularisation are well established strategies for managing complex specifications [1, 2]. However, although software is designed with SoC in mind, the language mechanisms at hand often lead to tangling and scattering of concerns. This has motivated a range of language extensions to support concern specification, such as aspects and subjects in programming and m...

The Perspective-N-Point problem (PNP) is a notable problem in computer vision. It consists in, given N points known in an object coordinate space and their projection onto the image, estimating the distance between the video camera and the set of points. By the use of an unusual formulation, we propose a method to get a strictly analytical solution based on the resolution of linear systems. Thi...

Although the last-mile connecting services between the terminals and the origins (or destinations) represent a very small portion of the global distribution network in terms of distance, they contribute significantly to the total transportation cost. Not only they are more vulnerable than the long-haul transportation counterparts, but they also are the key sources of shipment delays, road conge...

This paper presents the first computational cognitive model of second-order social reasoning. The model uses a decision tree strategy to reason about the opponent’s behavior. We hypothesize that a decision tree strategy requires (1) declarative memory, and (2) working memory. Declarative memory is required to retrieve successive reasoning steps, while working memory is required to temporarily s...

Argentina is a federal republic located in South America. Despite Argentina’s redemocratization in 1983, conditions favoring human rights abuses still persist. Institutional violence refers to structured practices of human rights violation by state officials belonging to public institutions. In this paper, we outline and discuss privacy issues in institutional violence complaints in Argentina. ...

BACKGROUND The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) was developed to meet demand for instruments to measure mental well-being. It comprises 14 positively phrased Likert-style items and fulfils classic criteria for scale development. We report here the internal construct validity of WEMWBS from the perspective of the Rasch measurement model. METHODS The model was applied to data ...

Language/Action perspective (LAP) was introduced by Flores and Winograd and their associates in the 1980. This perspective, which is based on the speech act theory, has been originally suggested as guidelines for designing information systems. Though LAP had some success in designing commercial systems, it had never become widespread as a basis for systems design. This paper suggests reviving L...

In mechanism design, the gold standard solution concepts are dominant strategy incentive compatibility and Bayesian incentive compatibility. These solution concepts relieve the (possibly unsophisticated) bidders from the need to engage in complicated strategizing. While incentive properties are simple to state, their proofs are specific to the mechanism and can be quite complex. This raises two...

In this work an approach for image based 6-DOF pose estimation, with respect to a given 3D point cloud model, is presented. We use 3D annotated training views of the model from which we extract natural 2D features, which can be matched to the query image 2D features. In the next step typically the Perspective-N-Point Problem in combination with the popular RANSAC algorithm on the given 2D-3D po...