The neostriatum is strategically located in the forebrain and receives inputs from all cortical areas. The complexity of the corticostriatal pathways suggests that striatal neurons are in a unique position to process convergent inputs from cortex and through basal ganglia output nuclei to control subcortical nuclei and/or contribute to cortical dynamics via the thalamus. The most abundant neuro...

This paper describes a type-oriented approach to the programming of social middlewares. It defines a collection of metamodeling features which allow programmers to declare the social interaction and agent types which make up the program of a multiagent society for some application domain. These features are identified and formalised taking into account a specification of social middlewares as p...

Meredith Davis has argued that interaction is not the special province of computers alone. She points out that printed books invite interaction and that designers consider how readers will interact with books. She cites Massimo Vignelli’s work on the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds as an example of particularly thoughtful design for interaction.1 Richard Buchanan sh...

In safety-critical domains such as aviation, systems and system operation are complex due to their dynamic character as well as the number of technical components to be operated. Efforts to automate such systems aim to improve performance and reduce operator workload. Whilst the overall operational complexity has been reduced, new types of problems have occurred, suggesting that new types of in...

Cyclic dynamics of populations are outstanding and widespread phenomena across many taxa. Previous theoretical studies have mainly focused on the consumer-resource interaction as the driving force for such cycling. However, natural ecosystems comprise diverse types of species interactions, but their roles in population dynamics remains unclear. Here, using a four-species hybrid module with anta...