Programming in societies of behavior-agents is emerging as a promising method for creating mobile robot control systems that are responsive both to internal priorities for action and to external world constraints. It is essentially a new approach to finding modularities in real-time control systems in which module boundaries are sought not between separate information processing functions, but ...

The moderating role of affective-cognitive consistency in the effects of affectively-based and cognitively-based attitudes on consummatory and instrumental behaviors was explored using two experimental studies in the intergroup context. Study 1 revealed that affectively-based attitudes were better predictors than cognitively-based attitudes regardless of affective-cognitive consistency for cons...

Traditional planning has been explored in depth. Most research is concentrated at a high level, e.g., developing coordination interaction protocols to be imposed on agents. There has been less concern about how the internal task structures of individual agents affect these higher-level coordination behaviors. When involving multiple participants, collaborative planning has been facing problems ...

Oscillatory activity is a candidate mechanism for providing frequency coding for the generation, storage and replay of sequential representations of events and episodes. We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) and spike activity in the striatum, a basal ganglia structure implicated in behavioral action-sequence learning and performance, as rats engaged in spontaneous and instructed behaviors ...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have emerged as the platform of choice for the rapid prototyping and testing of hardware circuits. The dynamic creation of hardware circuits in FPGAs provides an efficient mechanism for customizing the hardware for specific task objectives. The ability of these devices to be reprogrammed during run-time enables the hardware circuitry to adapt to changing t...

Human-robot interaction requires explicit reasoning on human environment and on robot capacities to achieve its tasks in a collaborative way with a human partner. We have devised a decisional framework for humanrobot interactive task achievement that is aimed to allow the robot not only to accomplish its tasks but also to produce behaviors that support its engagement vis-avis its human partner ...

Attracting new contributors is a necessary but not a sufficient condition, to ensure the survival and long-term success of Free/ Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. The well-being of a FOSS project also depends on contributors performing behaviors that nurture the project and its associated community. This study is a quantitative investigation of the socialization factors that influence contr...