Electricity markets are complex environments, involving a large number of different entities, with specific characteristics and objectives, making their decisions and interacting in a dynamic scene. Game-theory has been widely used to support decisions in competitive environments; therefore its application in electricity markets can prove to be a high potential tool. This paper proposes a new s...

Building robots, even for performing simple tasks, requires the designer to assess performance using various parameters. However, sometimes the best solution is not the one that performs best on average. Hence, other ways of evaluating performance are necessary. We ran a broad parameter sweep for an agent-based simulation of a robotic area coverage task with very simple agent controllers in fou...

Scenarios are typical situations that may occur in the operation of a software system. Scenario analysis plays an important role in software requirements analysis and design. This paper introduces a formal notation for the specification of scenario s in agent-based systems. The autonomous and collaborative behavior of an agent can be formally specified by a set of rules describing its activity ...

The development of a Virtual Rat has been ongoing. During the development the need for physically based simulation has been established. We present the results of in vitro testing for the examination of soft-tissue properties, and compare the results with a Finite Element simulation of the test scenario. We also provide results for the use of these obtained material properties within a mass-spr...

The relevance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is progressively increasing in every aspect of modern life. At the same time, the aging trend most European countries are experiencing, may significantly impact on their absorptive capacity of innovation, which is a key determinant of socioeconomic development, with deep policy implications for both the private and the public se...

In this paper we apply Boella and van der Torre’s normative multiagent systems to analyze a model of transaction trust introduced by Tan and colleagues. We discuss the role of constitutive and regulative norms in party trust and control trust. Moreover, we use so called contract negotiation games to indicate when controls are needed. Though sometimes regulators focus exclusively on adding contr...

In this paper, we compare the results of three related requirements engineering efforts: an industrial requirements specification produced with a use case based process, a case study analyzing those use cases by means of goal analysis; and a second case study analyzing the original use cases with an integrated scenario analysis and management approach and software tool support. The scenario-bas...

parameters such as future precipitation, temperature, snowfall, and runoff were modeled using precis regionalclimate modeling system in iran with the horizontal resolutions of 0.44×0.44°c in latitude and longitude under sresa2 and b2 scenarios. the dataset was based on hadam3p during the periods of 1961-1990 and 2071-2100. theoverall precipitation error of the model in the period of 1961-1990 w...