We present an agent-based model of peer review built on three entities the paper, the scientist and the conference. The systems is implemented on a BDI platform (Jason) that allows us to define a rich model of scoring, evaluating and selecting papers for conferences. Some of the reviewers apply a strategy (called “rational cheating”) aimed to prevent papers better than their own to be accepted....

Adaptation is an important feature of human organizations. Being able to change allows them not only to survive, but to evolve to get new advantages from new situations happening in their environment or from inside the organization. The same way human organizations do, agent organizations should be able to adapt. Even if adaptation is addressed in the literature, it lacks the ability to clearly...

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. he hiring and firing decisions of individual businesses are one of the drivers behind movements in the unemployment rate during expansions and recessions. Whether a recession is driven by large job losses or weak hiring will grea...

This paper describes a team of agents that took part in the second CLIMA Contest. The team was implemented in a logic-based language for BDI agents and was run in a Java-based interpreter that makes it easy for legacy code to be invoked from within the agents’ practical reasoning. Even though the implementation was not completely finished in time, the team won the competition, and the experienc...

Portfolio implementation is critical for investment success. Seemingly minor differences in portfolio construction can lead to major differences in performance outcomes. In this paper, we summarize the differences between two popular portfolio construction approaches, “mix” and “integrate,” and examine a handful of value and momentum-themed examples to demonstrate how these differences play out...

Gennady N. Chuev, Pascal Quémerais, and Jason Crain (1) Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Science, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia (2)Institut Néel, CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France (3) School of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom (4) National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddin...

parallelized, aerobic, single carbon-source enrichments Theodore M. Flynn, Jason C. Koval, Stephanie M. Greenwald, Sarah M. Owens, Kenneth M. 1 Kemner, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos 2 3 Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA 4 5 * Correspondence: 6 Dionysios A. Antonopoulos 7 [email protected] 8 Theodore M. Flynn 9 [email protected] 10

Yasuyuki Nakajima,1 Renxiong Wang,1 Tristin Metz,1 Xiangfeng Wang,1 Limin Wang,1 Hyunchae Cynn,2 Samuel T. Weir,2 Jason R. Jeffries,2 and Johnpierre Paglione1 1Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 2Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA (Received 16 Janu...