Previous studies show that spending money on others makes people happier than it themselves. The present study tested and extended this idea by examining the role of active versus passi...

Using the Luthar–Passi method and results of Hertweck, we study the long-standing conjecture of Zassenhaus for integral group rings of alternating groups An, n ≤ 8. As a consequence of our results, we confirm the Kimmerle’s conjecture about prime graphs for those groups.

Awareness and autonomous interaction with the environment in a robotic system is the base of the new discipline of machine consciousness. In this paper we present the results of a first attempt in order to engineer these robotic systems by applying a Situational Method Engineering approach that extends PASSI and to create a model for conscious systems.

We investigate the classical Zassenhaus conjecture for the unit group of the integral group ring of Mathieu simple group M 23 using the Luthar-Passi method. This work is a continuation of the research that we carried out for Mathieu groups M 11 and M 12. As a consequence, for this group we confirm Kimmerle's conjecture on prime graphs.

Using the Luthar–Passi method, we investigate the classical Zassenhaus conjecture for the normalized unit group of the integral group ring of the Suzuki sporadic simple group Suz. As a consequence, for this group we confirm the Kimmerle’s conjecture on prime graphs.

The present work continues a longer research in the field of flexible transportation services and the design of an agent system devoted to the planning, scheduling and control of trips under such a domain. In particular, this paper focuses in the design and development of the interface agents present in the system by following an agent development methodology named PASSI. The interface agent de...

Questo contributo presenta tre brevi note di lettura su altrettanti passi del Filostrato (IV 51, 1-8; IV 56, 4-8) e Ninfale fiesolano (229, 1-5) Giovanni Boccaccio, volte alla ricerca probabili fonti modelli classici mediolatini finora sfuggiti all’attenzione degli studiosi.

ELDATool, which is implemented in Java as an Eclipse plug-in, supports an iterative process involving the following phases: detailed design, automatic code generation and simulation. The high-level design, which is the input to this iterative process, can be obtained through currently available agent-oriented methodologies such as PASSI and GAIA. In order to show the main characteristics of the...

Introduction The PASSI2 design process is the evolution of PASSI (Process for Agent Society Specification and Implementation) [44], it covers all the phases from the requirements analysis to the deployment configuration, coding, and testing. PASSI2, so as PASSI and all its evolution, is based on a meta-model describing the elements that constitute the system to be designed (agents, tasks, commu...

In this paper we consider feedback passive systems, de-ned as nonlinear systems that can be rendered (strictly) passive by means of state feedback. For feedback passive systems in a parametric normal form, we present an adaptive controller that eeectively \passiies" the system. The proposed control uses techniques of Speed-Gradient (S-G) methodology from the Russian literature. Stability result...