Open distributed multi-agent systems featuring autonomous components demand coordination mechanisms for both functional and non-functional properties. Heterogeneity of requirements regarding interaction means and paradigms, stemming from the diverse nature of components, should not affect the effectiveness of coordination. Along this line, in this paper we share our pragmatical experience in th...

Team coordination of non-player characters can create a deeper sense of immersion in real-time games by allowing characters to work together to produce better tactics and strategy. Achieving multi-agent coordination can be a difficult problem, and can incur substantial computational costs. Our goal with this work is to produce a reactive method for coordinating game characters that will allow c...

objective in this article, a motor skill disorder called developmental coordination disorder (dcd), that is usually first diagnosed during childhood, is explained and discussed. in the year 1987, dcd was formally recognized as a distinct disorder in children by the american psychiatric association  (apa). dcd is a generalized term for the children who have some degrees of impairment in the deve...

We investigate the problem of routing traffic through a congested network in an environment of non-cooperative users. We use the worst-case coordination ratio suggested by Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou to measure the performance degradation due to the lack of a centralized traffic regulating authority. We provide a full characterization of the worst-case coordination ratio in the restricted ass...

When we design multi-agent systems for realistic, worth-oriented environments, coordination problems they present involve intricate and sophisticated interplay between the domain and the various system components. Achieving effective coordination in such systems is a difficult problem for a number of reasons like local views of problem-solving task and uncertainty about the outcomes of interact...

Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national coordination thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks the world economy. We investigate this argument by exploring within-country variation exposure competition from China 13 European countries. Our estimates demonstrate that coun...

the stereochemistry of the actinide elements has recently undergone considerable development and a wide variety of coordination numbers and geometries have been observed. this structural versatility arises from the lack of strong crystal field effects for the 5f-electronic configurations as well as from the large ionic radii of these metal ions, which change markedly with oxidation number, or a...

There is little consistency in the literature concerning factors that influence motor coordination in children. A hypothesis-free "exposome" approach was used with 7359 children using longitudinal information covering 3 generations in regard to throwing a ball accurately at age 7 years. The analyses showed an independent robust negative association with mother's unhappiness in her midchildhood ...

In this study we investigated the coordination of consonantal and vocalic gestures in Tashlhiyt Berber as a function of their subsyllabic constituency. The aim was to determine whether the syllabification proposed of word initial clusters is reflected in the coordination of articulatory gestures. Two main results were obtained: (1) The timing of consonants in word initial clusters in relation t...