This document describes an overview of a multi-agent system formed by a team of cowboys to compete in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2008 (the “Cows and Herders” scenario). In the two previous contests we tested and improved Jason , the interpreter for an agent programming language used to implement the MAS. Jason [2] is an agent platform based on an extension of an agent-oriented programm...

This paper gives an overview of a multi-agent system forming a team of “cowboys” to compete in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2008 (the ‘Cows and Herders’ scenario). In the two previous contests, we tested and improved Jason [2], an agent platform based on an extension of an agent-oriented programming language called AgentSpeak(L) [5]. The language is inspired by the BDI architecture, thus...

Recently Hájek prophesied that “as fans of the Friday the 13th series know, you should never be surprised if Jason suddenly reappears in a new guise – and the same is true for Stalnaker’s Thesis” (Hájek, 2011, p. 14). So what better day to pick for a plea for the thesis than today? Obviously, a new guise is also needed for the thesis; it cannot live on in the way as it is understood in the triv...

In plants, whole-genome doubling (polyploidization) is a widely occurring process largely contributing to plant evolution and diversification. The generation and fusion of diploid gametes is now considered the major route of plant polyploidization. The parallel arrangement or fusion of meiosis II MII spindles (ps) is one of the most frequently reported mechanisms generating triploid offspring. ...

Roller compaction is a dry granulation technique used in the pharmaceutical industry, in which a powder formulation is compressed into a ‘ribbon’ compact between two counter rotating rolls. The ribbon is subsequently milled into granules of a desired size range. Whilst simple in principle, successful control of a roller compaction process is often difficult as it is multivariate in design. Furt...

Design critiquing systems are a type of intelligent user interface used to support human designers in decision making. This paper places design critics in the larger context of intelligent user interface approaches and surveys several critiquing systems. Each approach and system is evaluated with respect to a five-phase design improvement process. This paper concludes with a summary of the stat...

Jason is perhaps the most advanced multi-agent programming language based on AgentSpeak . Unfortunately, its current Java-based implementation does not scale up and is seriously limited for simulating systems of hundreds of thousands of agents. We are presenting a scalable simulation platform for running huge numbers of agents in a Jason style simulation framework. Our idea is (1) to identify i...

Sea level determination via satellite altimetry is subject to numerous error sources. One of these is the sea state bias where changing surface wave conditions alter an altimeter’s estimate of mean sea level. Recent work suggests that present day methods for correcting this bias, based solely on wave and wind information from the altimeter, may be improved if additional surface gravity wave fie...