An agent based model of team formation and wealth distribution is studied. Based on previous work, two incentive structures, one resembling a firm and the second resembling an open source team are used to study the dynamics of team formation. I found that there exist ranges for the number of such teams when agents find it beneficial to join one of the open source teams and when not to. The effe...

The main goal of the RAC project is to develop a robotic soccer team for participating in the RoboCup’s small-size league competitions. This paper is focused on two main issues: distributed control of a team of robotic soccer robots; and computer vision for tracking and localization. A distributed control architecture tailored for robotic soccer is presented, which aims at fostering cooperation...

We study a team whose members choose a joint project and exert individual efforts to implement it. Members have private information about the productivities of alternative projects. We find conditions under which information fails to be shared and the most productive project fails to be selected. While the concealment of information can be efficient, the team’s incentive to conceal is inefficie...

The overall research goal of GMD ́s RoboCup middle-size league team is to increase both, the controlled speed of mobile robots acting as a team in dynamic environments and the speed of the development process for robot control systems. Therefore, GMD started in 1998 to develop a proprietary fast robot platform and in parallel the development of the integrated Dual Dynamics Design Environment. Th...

The authors demarcated mental efficacy and physical efficacy at the team level, and they explored these 2 factors as outcomes of 4 potential inputs and as predictors of 3 outcomes among 110 newly formed action teams in a military setting. Both types of team efficacy benefited from greater team size and an initial experience of enactive mastery, but they were not influenced by teams' female repr...

This paper presents the team coordination methodologies of CAMBADA, a robotic soccer team designed to participate in the RoboCup middle-size league (MSL). The coordination model extends and adapts previous work in the Soccer Simulation League to the MSL environment. The approach is based on flexible positionings and priority-based dynamic role/positioning assignment. In addition, coordinated pr...

Analyzing the neutrality of referees during 12 German premier league (1. Bundesliga) soccer seasons, this paper documents evidence that social forces influence agents’ decisions. Referees, who are appointed to be impartial, tend to favor the home team by systematically awarding more stoppage time in close matches in which the home team is behind. They also favor the home team in decisions to aw...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our objective was to describe the psychometric properties of a measure of team development that can be used to assess and guide team functioning in health care settings. METHODS The Team Development Measure (TDM) is a 31-item questionnaire constructed using the Rasch rating scale measurement model. We conducted an Mplus exploratory factor analysis using data collecte...

In this paper, we describe the GMD-Robots. These robots will be presented at the RoboCup 1999. RoboCup is the robot world cup soccer games and conferences. It offers the opportunity to examine a wide range of technologies in different research areas. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple moving robots in a dynamic environment. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game vario...

1. Complete both parts of project: 1) Attacks on RFID mutual authentication, and 2) secure RFID system design. 2. Maximum allowed team size is three. Email the names of your group members to the instructor and TA by Monday, October 23. You are welcome to use discussion board to find groups. 3. Submission method: – Submit both project report and source code via Dropbox 4. On the front page of yo...