Group Leadership patterns focus on the unique role the leader of a group has in steering her/his group through successes and hardships. They emphasize the place of the leader in affecting the behavior of the group, focusing on the function a leader should take to help the group to better manage some of the changes that come from within the group itself, created by the social interaction among g...

The role of the leader of a medical unit has evolved over time to expand from simply a medical role to a more managerial one. This study aimed to explore how the behavior of a hospital-based emergency department's (ED's) leader might be related to ED unit performance and ED employees' work satisfaction. One hundred and twelve hospital-based EDs in Taiwan were studied: 10 in medical centers, 32 ...

The control of car following is essential due to its safety and its operational efficiency. For this purpose, this paper builds a model of car following behavior based on ARMAX structure from a real traffic dataset and design a Model Predictive Control (MPC) system. Based on the relative distance and relative acceleration of each instant, the MPC predicts the future behavior of the leader vehic...

This paper aims to investigate a new and intricate behavior of immediate follower during the lane change of leader vehicle. Accordingly, the mentioned situation is a transient state in car following behavior during which the follower vehicle considerably deviates from conventional car following models for a limited time, which is a complex state including lateral and longitudinal movement simul...

One of the current challenges in robotics is the cooperative control of multiple robots with a common goal. Thepossibility of making several smaller capacity robots to perform tasks that would be impossible or inefficient individually, has motivated the scientific community to encourage the development of innovative control strategies. The use of multiple robots versus one offers several advant...