Team formation is a critical step in deploying a multi-agent team. In some scenarios, agents coordinate by voting continuously. When forming such teams, should we focus on the diversity of the team or on the strength of each member? Can a team of diverse (and weak) agents outperform a uniform team of strong agents? In this demo, the user will be able to explore these questions by playing one of...

This study reviews world literature on the strength-related effect of duration and rate of loading on wood and wood-based materials. Also, early developments are discussed which led to the currently used permanent loading factor of 9/16. Published data on duration of load are reanalyzed and compared. The comparisons suggest that the effect of stress level on duration of stress for wood is great...

We present a microscopic analysis of the instability of the nematic phase to chirality when molecular chirality is introduced perturbatively. We show that for central-force interactions the previously neglected short–range biaxial correlations play a crucial role in determining the cholesteric pitch. We propose a pseudoscalar strength which quantifies the chirality of a molecule.

We propose a correlated stochastic process of which the novel non-Gaussian probability mass function is constructed by exactly solving moment generating function. The calculation of cumulants and auto-correlation shows that the process is convergent and scale invariant in the large but finite time limit. We demonstrate that the model infers the correlation strength in a discrete correlated time...

The flourishing of online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) makes it easy to recruit many workers for solving small tasks. We study whether information elicitation and aggregation over a combinatorial space can be achieved by integrating small pieces of potentially imprecise information, gathered from a large number of workers through simple, one-shot interactions in an onlin...

This paper presents a hybrid watermarking technique which mixes additive and multiplicative watermark embedding with emphasis on its robustness versus the imperceptibility of the watermark. The embedding is performed in six wavelet sub-bands using independently three embedding equations and two parameters to modulate the embedding strength for multiplicative and additive embedding. The watermar...

We explore the possibility of using a relativistic plasma density wave as a wiggler for producing free-electron laser radiation. Such a wiggler is a purely electric wiggler with frequency w p (plasma frequency) and wavenumber k,,. If an electron beam is injected parallel to the plasma wave wavefront, it is wiggled transversely with an apparent wiggler wavelength X, = 27rc/wp. Using plasma densi...

In this study, the use of most frequent spatial prepositions in English, Polish, Swedish, and Russian is analyzed. The prepositions and their contexts are extracted from corpora by means of concordance tools. The collostructional strength between the prepositions and the most frequent nouns in the PPs (Gries et al. 2005) is then computed in order to get a more detailed picture of the contexts i...

This paper presents synchronization of coupled chaotic circuits as an array topology when coupling strength has different value depending on distance between the chaotic circuits. By using computer simulations, we observe interesting synchronization phenomena. Namely, several types of synchronization are observed by depending on arrangement method of chaotic circuits.

Fine grain polycrystals of MgO have been prepared from a Mg(OH)2 powder by reactive hot-pressing at 900°C. The densification rate is discussed in terms of superplastic deformation. The bend strength and the effective surface energy for fracture initiation y. have been determined as a function of porosity between room temperature and112000~. A rapid increase in yi with temperature is observed ab...