In many intellective tasks groups consistently outperform individuals. One factor is that the individual(s) with the best answer is able to convince the other group members using sound argumentation. Another factor is that the most confident group member imposes her answer whether it is right or wrong. In Experiments 1 and 2, individual participants were given arguments against their answer in ...

The World-Wide-Mind (WWM) is a scheme for putting minds (by which we mean the software to drive a real or virtual agent) online for remote re-use by third parties. Although the animat community favours the extension of existing agent minds in an ongoing process, there is currently no easy way to re-use minds built by other authors. If re-use became the norm, it is suggested that larger, more di...

INGENIAS is a methodology for the development of multi-agent systems. INGENIAS support tools has recently incorporated a plug-in called the MTGenerator, which has been developed to facilitate the creation of model transformations by-example from INGENIAS models. The MTGenerator tool overcomes some of the limitations of similar tools about the creation of many-to-many transformation rules. This ...

the desire and drive for excellence in any endeavor in life requires an effort from the individual; in addition it requires a constellation of features around such individuals that help them to become successful. for surgeons, it is the operating room staff, the administrative and medical assistants and our residents and fellows. however, perhaps the most important contribution to a physician’s...