Most work in Distributed AI has dealt with agents that cooperate to achieve common high level goals. The assumption of cooperative behavior allows agents to use static models of one another to predict their future actions in order to promote coherent system behavior. Our research extends the domain of problems to include noncooperative, multi-agent interactions where cooperation cannot be assum...

This paper studies market-based mechanisms for dynamic coordinated task assignment in large scale agent systems carrying out search and rescue missions. Specifically, the effect of different auction mechanisms and swapping are studied. The paper describes results from a large number of simulations of homogeneous agents, where by homogeneous we mean that agents in a given simulation use the same...

Commun Oncol 2011;8(suppl 1):5–16 © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. A n efficacy plateau has been reached with conventional platinum-based doublet chemotherapy regimens as first-line treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),1 underscoring the need for new strategies. Over the past decade, several therapeutic options for relapsed NSCLC were introduced. New agents include...

in distributed computing environment, Mobile agents are mobile autonomous processes which operate on behalf of users (e.g., the Internet). These applications include a specialized search of a middleware services such as an active mail system, large free-text database, electronic malls for shopping, and updated networking devices. Mobile agent systems use less network bandwidth, increase asynchr...

Non-invasive optoacoustic mapping of temperature in tissues with low blood content can be enabled by administering external contrast agents. Some important clinical applications of such approach include temperature mapping during thermal therapies in a prostate or a mammary gland. However, the technique would require a calibration that establishes functional relationship between the measured no...

In a computational market, distributed market agents interact with other agents primarily through the exchange of goods and services. Thanks to a welldeveloped underlying economic framework, we can draw on a rich source of analytic tools and theoretical techniques for designing individual agents and predicting aggregate behavior. For many narrowly scoped static problems, design of a computation...

The study analyzed farm management extension services (FMESs) performed by the extension agents of Agricultural Development Projects in South West Nigeria. Study representatives were sampled randomly from Oyo ADP, Osun ADP and Ekiti ADP, making a 50% representation of the South-West. A proportionate sample of 80% of the total of the extension agents in each of the 3 case studies was randomly se...

Abstract We use the cavity method from statistical physics for analyzing transient and stationary dynamics of a minority game that is played by agents performing market arbitrage. On level linear response allows to include reaction individual actions as well information items market. This way we derive self-consistent solution game. In particular analyze impact general nonlinear price functions...

The fifth Jack Pepys Workshop on Asthma in the Workplace focused on the similarities and differences of work-related asthma (WRA) and non-work-related asthma (non-WRA). WRA includes occupational asthma (OA) and work-exacerbated asthma (WEA). There are few biological differences in the mechanisms of sensitization to environmental and occupational allergens. Non-WRA and OA, when due to high-molec...

BACKGROUNDS: Different susceptibility rates of pathogenic bacteria to antimicrobial agents are considered major factors in the choice of drugs and the success of treatments. Concerns have been raised regarding the emergence of antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria that may result in unpredictable antimicrobial susceptibilities and therapy failure. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this in...