Abstract. We study the time evolution of ranking and spectral properties of the Google matrix of English Wikipedia hyperlink network during years 2003 2011. The statistical properties of ranking of Wikipedia articles via PageRank and CheiRank probabilities, as well as the matrix spectrum, are shown to be stabilized for 2007 2011. A special emphasis is done on ranking of Wikipedia personalities ...

Agents are considered "believable" when they are viewed by an audience as endowed with thoughts, desires, and emotions, typical of different personalities. The paper describes our work in progress aimed at reaiizing believable agents that perform helping behaviors influenced by their own personalities; the latter are represented as different clusters of prioritized goals and preferences over pl...

Recent research indicates that people respond socially to computers and perceive them as having personalities. Software agents especially are humanmachine interaction artifacts that embody those qualities most likely to elicit social responses: contingent behavior, fulfilling a social role, and using language. People may perceive agents as one or many discreet social entities, each with a perso...

In this paper we present the results from a survey about the beliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers in a large software company. The survey received 797 responses. We report statistics about beliefs of software engineers, their work practices, as well as differences in those with respect to personality traits. For example, we observed no personality differences between deve...

In many animal species, individuals differ consistently in suites of correlated behaviors, comparable with human personalities. Increasing evidence suggests that one of the fundamental factors structuring personality differences is the responsiveness of individuals to environmental stimuli. Whereas some individuals tend to be highly responsive to such stimuli, others are unresponsive and show r...

Novel selective pressures derived from human activities challenge the persistence of animal populations worldwide. Behavior is expected to be a major factor driving animals' responses to global change because it largely determines how animals interact with the environment. However, the role of individual variation in behavior to facilitate the persistence of animals in changing environments rem...

Malware is the root cause of many security threats on the Internet. To cope with the thousands of new malware samples that are discovered every day, security companies and analysts rely on automated tools to extract the runtime behavior of malicious programs. Of course, malware authors are aware of these tools and increasingly try to thwart their analysis techniques. To this end, malware code i...

Computer games are the most promising tools meeting the children’s needs stemmed from the new digital technologies. Thus, educational games are considered as effective ways providing these. However, to make an educational game more effective, one needs to know children’s preferences and factors affecting their choices. One of the factors is character features of the games because most children ...