Cleaning workload data and separating it into classes is a necessary pre-requisite for workload characterization. In particular, the workload on web search engines is derived from the activities of both human users and automated bots. It is important to distinguish between these two classes in order to reliably characterize human web search behavior, and to study the effects of bot activity. Ho...

OBJECTIVE To report experience with borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs) in a developing country like Pakistan with limited resources and weak database of health system. METHODS Patients with BOTs managed at Shaukat Khanum Cancer hospital, Lahore, Pakistan from 2004 to 2014 were included and reviewed retrospectively. Data was recorded on histopathological types, age, CA-125, stage of disease, tre...

Atomizing various Web activities by replacing human to human interactions on the Internet has been made indispensable due to its enormous growth. However, bots also known as Web-bots which have a malicious intend and pretending to be humans pose a severe threat to various services on the Internet that implicitly assume a human interaction. Accordingly, Web service providers before allowing acce...

Even though reasoning and, in particular, planning techniques have had a long tradition in Artificial Intelligence, these have only recently been applied to interactive computer games. In this paper we propose the use of READYLOG, a variant of the logic-based action language GOLOG, to build game bots. The language combines features from classical programming languages with decision-theoretic pl...

The DoH!Bots (Dortmund Humanoid Robots) is a team of researchers and students from Dortmund University. Our group took part in the humanoid league for the first time at RoboCup 2006, as part of the team BreDoBrothers which was a cooperation with Bremen University. This year both groups want to compete in the Humanoid league independently, due to the difficulties encountered in managing remotely...

This article examines communicative anthropomorphization, that is, assigning of humanlike features, socialbots in communication between humans and bots. Situated the field human-machine communication, asks how are devised as anthropomorphized companions explores ways which human users anthropomorphize bots through communication. Through an analysis two datasets interacting with on social media,...

The Automated Turing test (ATT) is almost a standard security technique for addressing the threat of undesirable or malicious bot programs. In this paper, we motivate an interesting adversary model, cyborgs, which are either humans assisted by bots or bots assisted by humans. Since there is always a human behind these bots, or a human can always be available on demand, ATT fails to differentiat...

This work describes three different approaches looking to get the best Bot (autonomous agent) for the First Person Shooter Unreal Tournament 2004. To this end, different hybridizations of the two best bots of the Botprize Competition 2014 are created. This competition decided the humanness level of the bots by means of a Turing test conducted on human judges. Thus, the proposal considers the so...

A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interactions both at the behavioral and physical levels. The goal of this paper is to analyze the physical performance of a swarm-bot as function of its size (number n of s-bots composing it). We present three tasks and the corr...

CAPTCHA is standard for providing security for web services. It mainly used to avoid Denial-Of –Service attack. CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart or it is designed to distinguish automatic bots and human. Many different CAPTCHA were introduced and it is in use. All the CAPTCHA have some disadvantage. Textbased CAPTCHA can be easily identified by ...