In this paper we present a new class of tasks for multi-robot teams: those that require constant complex interaction between teammates. Much research has been done in the area of multi-robot coordination, but no existing framework meets the technical demands of such tasks. We have developed Hoplites in response to the need for a more capable framework. Hoplites is a market-based framework that ...

introduction: given the high income that can be earned from health tourism, many people in private sectors are willing to enter this field. nevertheless, iran's share of this source of income is small since no active and successful bodies in health tourism market have been developed in private sector. the purpose of this paper is to identify the driving as well as the constraining factors of pr...

We discuss a group coordination architecture to support Internet-wide distributed collaboration, in particular for WWW-based distance education. With the current surge in e-commerce and Web-centric information exchange among users, the need for systems offering better telepresence and interaction capabilities becomes tangible. Group coordination in distributed systems and networked multimedia s...

Carlsson and van Damme (1991, 93) presented a notion of a global game, which is an incomplete information game where the actual payoff structure is affected by a realization of a common shock and where each player gets noisy private information of the shock. For n-person symmetric games with two possible actions characterized by strategic complementarity, they showed that equilibrium play in a ...

Local coordination and topology of ions determine several important properties of materials, including electronic structure, migration barrier, and diffusivity. In this thesis, we employ the Materials Project Database to investigate the coordination preferences of cations and topology of coordination polyhedra in oxides. We calculate the coordination environment preferences of several common ca...

Besides neuro-mechanical constraints, chemical or metabolic stimuli have also been proposed to interfere with the coordination between respiratory and locomotor rhythms. In the light of the conflicting data observed in the literature, this study aimed to assess whether acute hypoxia modifies the degree of coordination between respiratory and locomotor rhythms during rowing exercises in order to...

OBJECTIVE To determine prevalence and correlates of need and unmet need for care coordination in a national sample of children with mental health conditions. METHODS Using data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health, we identified children aged 2 to 17 years with ≥1 mental health condition (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, or depression...

Objectives: Motor therapy plays a key role on the bilateral coordination skills and motor activities of children with Intellectual Disability (ID). The present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of motor therapy on motor skills and bilateral coordination skills of students with ID.  Methods: This was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test and control group desig...

Macrocyclic heterobinuclear Zn(II)–Cu(II) complexes with phenol based dicompartmental ligands possessing contiguous hexa- and penta-coordination sites were prepared by a stepwise procedure. The ligands include similar N4O2 and dissimilar N(imine)3O2 and N(amine)3O2 coordination sites sharing two phenolic oxygen atoms. The six-coordination site comprises two pyridyl pendant arms on the amine nit...