Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence is a new and growing area of AI research, enabled by the emergence of massively parallel machines. It is a new paradigm in AI research. A high degree of par­ allelism not only affects computing performance, but also triggers drastic change in the approach to­ ward building intelligent systems; memory-based reasoning and parallel marker-passing are exam...

2 Mercure model Mercure is an information retrieval system based on a connexionist approach and modeled by a multi-layered network. The network is composed of a query layer (set of query terms), a term layer (representing the indexing terms) and a document layer [Boughanem99]. Mercure includes the implementation of a retrieval process based on spreading activation forward and backward through t...

Graph ranking algorithms such as PageRank and HITS share the common idea of calculating eigenvectors of graph adjacency matrices. This paper shows that the power method usually used to calculate eigenvectors is also present in a spreading activation search. In addition, we empirically show that spreading activation algorithm is able to converge on periodic graphs, where power method fails. Furt...

In social psychology, emotional contagion describes the widely observed phenomenon of one person’s emotions being influenced by surrounding people’s emotions. While the overall effect is agreed upon, the underlying mechanism of the spread of emotions has seen little quantification and application to computational agents. In this paper, we explore computational models of emotional contagion by i...

As robotics and automation applications extend to the service sector, researchers have to increasingly deal with performing robotic actions in uncertain and unstructured environments. A traditional solution to this problem models uncertainty about the effects of actions by probabilities conditioned on the state of the environment, making it possible to select plans that have the highest probabi...

Human platelet thrombospondin adsorbed on plastic promotes attachment and spreading of human G361 melanoma cells. Attachment is rapid, and spreading is maximal by 90 min with 60-90% of the attached cells spread. In contrast, thrombospondin promotes attachment but not spreading of human C32 melanoma cells, which attach and spread only on laminin substrates. The specificity of these interactions ...

Spreading depression (SD) is a transient wave of near-complete neuronal and glial depolarization associated with massive transmembrane ionic and water shifts. It is evolutionarily conserved in the central nervous systems of a wide variety of species from locust to human. The depolarization spreads slowly at a rate of only millimeters per minute by way of grey matter contiguity, irrespective of ...

With the rapid development of social network in recent years, threshold information dissemination has become lower. Most time, rumors, as a special kind information, are harmful to society. And once rumor appears, truth will follow. Considering that and compete with each other like light darkness reality, this paper, we study spreading model homogeneous called 2SIH2R, which there both spreader1...

The mammalian growth plate is a dynamic structure rich in extracellular matrix (ECM). Interactions of growth plate chondrocytes with ECM proteins regulate cell behavior. In this study, we compared chondrocyte adhesion and spreading dynamics on fibronectin (FN) and bone sialoprotein (BSP). Chondrocyte adhesion and spreading were also compared with fibroblasts to analyze potential cell-type-speci...