In crisis response, hierarchical organizations are being replaced by dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents that promise more agility. However, these autonomous agents might cause a decrease in effectiveness when individually constructed plans for moderately-coupled tasks are not jointly feasible. Existing coordination techniques can be applied in the pre-planning phase to guarantee feasible j...

Although dependency parsers have become increasingly popular, little work has been done on how to associate dependency structures with deep semantic representations. In this paper, we propose a semantic calculus for dependency structures which can be used to construct deep semantic representations from joint syntactic and semantic dependency structures similar to those used in the ConLL 2008 Sh...

many important and useful applications for software agents require multiple agents on a network that communicate with each other. we often use the word “agent” to describe people who have a helping or assistive relationship to us –– travel agents, secretaries, butlers. the job of such an agent is to act autonomously to satisfy goals that we may have, give us a greater sense of productivity and ...

the joints between segmental rings can withstand a certain amount of bending moment as well as axial and shear forces. generally, in the structural analysis of tunnel segmental lining, the joints can be modeled as elastic hinges or rotational springs, and their rigidity should be demonstrated in terms of the rigidity of the joints or their rotational stiffness. therefore, the bending moment act...

ings?; 3) can selective white matter tract involvement be seen on MR images early in the patient’s myelopathic state?; and 4) can magnetization transfer ratios (MTRs) be applied to normal-appearing cord tissue to show decreased MTRs in affected spinal cords? Although these and other issues are left unresolved by Chong’s investigation, the article can serve as a springboard for important studies...