Water temperature is an important control on processes in aquatic systems and particularly for freshwater fish, affecting growth, survival and demographic characteristics. In recognition of this importance, the Scottish Government has prioritised developing a robust national river temperature monitoring network. Advances in geographical information systems, spatial statistics and field data log...

Large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS) utilize performance models for their optimization. These models could be queueing network models such as Jackson or BCMP networks that can capture the flow of tasks through the network of agents and estimate quantities such as response time and queue lengths. The selection of the model and subsequent analysis of the system is often done offline. We propose ...

We investigate formation of economic and social networks where agents may form or cut ties. The novelty is combining a setup where agents are heterogeneous in their talent for generating value in the links they form and value may also accrue from indirect ties. We provide sufficient conditions for assortative matching: agents of greater talent have partners of greater talent. A novel feature is...

With e!ective bandwidth concept encapsulating cell-level behaviour, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network design and analysis at the call-level may be formulated in the framework of circuit-switched loss networks. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for a kind of multiparty videoconferencing in the VP-based ATM network at call-level. For this kind of conference, only the video ...

Ethnographers have traditionally defined human groups as disjoint collections of individuals who are linked to each other by regular interaction, shared perceptions and affective ties. They are internally differentiated: some members occupy a central position in the group, others are on the periphery or somewhere in between. This way of characterising a group is intuitive to seasoned observers ...

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Supratik Kar 1, Juganta K. Roy 1, Danuta Leszczynska 2 and Jerzy Leszczynski 1,* 1 Interdisciplinary Center for Nanotoxicity, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USA; [email protected] (S.K.); [email protected] (J.K.R.) 2 Interdisciplinary Center for Nanotoxicity, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson State...