Projects on GitHub rely the automation provided by software development bots. Nevertheless, presence of bots can be annoying and disruptive to community. Backed multiple studies with practitioners, this article provides guidelines for developing maintaining

Peer-to-peer network is a decentralized and distributed network where an individual nodes in the network performs as both providers and consumers of resources. This type of network is different from centralized network. In the centralized network, the client requests queries for accessing resources to the central servers. Malware is a harmful effect in the peer-to-peer networks. In the peer-to-...

BACKGROUND During the childbearing years, the standard fertility-sparing treatment for bilateral borderline ovarian tumours (BOTs) is the unilateral oophorectomy plus controlateral cystectomy. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of two laparoscopic fertility-sparing surgical procedures for the treatment of bilateral BOTs on recurrence and fertility in young women who desire ...

A first person shooter game is a game genre where fun in the game resorts to the skill of the opponents. In particular, when the opponents are bots, adjustment of their skill levels as well as implementation of their human-likeness are important research issues that many research groups have been studying recently in order to make bots more interesting to play with. This led to a contest called...

This paper provides an overview of the SWARM-BOTS project, a robotic project sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Commission. The paper illustrates the goals of the project, the robot prototype and the 3D simulator we built. It also reports on the results of experimental work in which distributed adaptive controllers are used to control a group of real, or s...

The rise of online communities has led to a phenomenon of real-time, multiperson interaction via online personas. Some online community technologies allow the creation of bots (personas that act according to a software programme rather than being directly controlled by a human user) in such a way that it is not always easy to tell a bot from a human within an online social space. In this paper ...

Political bots, through astroturfing and other strategies, have become important players in recent elections several countries. This study aims to provide researchers the citizenry with necessary knowledge design strategies identify bots counteract what international organizations deemed bots’ harmful effects on democracy and, simultaneously, improve automatic detection of them. is based two in...

A key role in the human reasoning capability is given by intuition. The aim of the work is to design a framework for an human-like information supplier, which combines “intuition” with the traditional, more rigid, rules-based knowledge. It is presented a preliminary system that represents the first step toward the aforementioned framework. The system allows a user to interact with a community o...