The information age has given way to what many military experts are describing as the next major military advancement – Network Centric Warfare (NCW). At its core, NCW has as its objective the translation of information superiority to supreme combat power; providing unprecedented lethality, survivability, and situational awareness to battle commanders and battle staff. One of the challenges ass...

Épidaure, an Actor based programming environment, is presented. The Actor programming approach is combined with the distributed shared memory (DSM) abstraction. Rather than using processes as compounding structure, memory structures are used. The defined actor segment is a programming abstraction that goes across process and processor boundaries and shields applications from several problems re...

Two observations in the matter of pictorial as well as formal presentation of some consistency in distributed shared memory are made. The first concerns geometric transformation of line segments and points picturing read/write operations, the second converting partial order of the operations into linear order of their initiations and terminations. This allows to reduce serialization of the read...

There is a growing interest in the use of heterogeneous teams comprised of humans and Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). Human teamwork studies have provided cumulative knowledge about team features and performance; however, transfer of this knowledge to human-IVA teams is challenging. Novelly, this paper investigates the impact of multiple communication channels on the development and maintena...

The working style of virtual R&D team is becoming more and more popular, so lots of researchers concern about the performance of virtual R&D teams. Shared mental model (SMM) is a concept in psychology which is defined as a common thinking style developed by similar experience and individual mental models. In this paper, we consider two types of SMM, which are task-related SMM and member-related...

We design and evaluate a method of human–robot cross-training, a validated and widely used strategy for the effective training of human teams. Cross-training is an interactive planning method in which team members iteratively switch roles with one another to learn a shared plan for the performance of a collaborative task. We first present a computational formulation of the robot mental model, w...

BACKGROUND Shared decision making represents a clinical consultation model where both clinician and service user are conceptualised as experts; information is shared bilaterally and joint treatment decisions are reached. Little previous research has been conducted to assess experience of this model in psychiatric practice. The current project therefore sought to explore the attitudes and experi...

background: behavioral disorders are common in the pediatric age group. this study aims to assess the relationship between the frequency of behavioral and mental disorders and counseling with family members and friends in a representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: in this nationwide study, 14880 school students, aged 6–18 years, were selected by cluster and stratified...