We have studied the effects of silane coupling agents used for the surface treatment of fiber on the tribological properties of hemp fiber (HF) reinforced plant-derived polyamide 1010 (PA1010) biomass composites. Hemp fibers were surface-treated by two surface treatment methods: (a) alkali treatment by sodium hydroxide solution and (b) surface treatment by silane coupling agents. Three types of...

In this work, the potential for usage recycled polystyrene and wood flour wastes as materials for development wood plastic composites was evaluated. The effects of wood flour loading and coupling agent addition on the mechanical, dynamic mechanical and morphological properties of polystyrene wood flour composites were examined. The results showed that the mechanical properties decreased with th...

We consider a team of agents that are required to coordinate their actions in order to maximize a global objective. Our domains are characterized by uncertainty, dynamism, and distributed information. Determining appropriate actions becomes quite difficult, especially as the number of agents and the coupling between them increases. This paper discusses four contributions toward the goal of coor...

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated humanlike characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. ECA is a powerful tool in representing the differences in cultural aspects and suitable for interactive training or edutainment systems. This paper presents the preliminary results of the development of a culture adaptive virtual tour guide agent for se...

The dispersion of polaritons of symmetry Aj and E is investigated in the region of four isotopic vibrations originating from C13and N15-atoms in their natural abundances. The measured dispersion curves are explained in terms of a theory for localized mode polaritons (LMP) developed by Ohtaka. The dispersion relation is generalized for a polyatomic crystal and applied to K3Cu(CN)4 . The comparis...

We present a strategy for dynamically schedule communicating processes of a parallel application onto a loosely coupled distributed system. As we must manage two criteria to schedule processes (the workload of the differents sites and the cost of the communication between processes), the algorithm proposed uses two types of agents (system agents and application agents). A system agent manages t...

A mobile agent system network is, in our definition, a dynamical system where so called agent servers are loosely coupled. In such an environment (mobile) agents may offer and consume services and act on behalf of a (human) user. This paper characterizes the dynamical behavior of such a network. Aspects of dynamical behavior are discussed, dynamical components are characterized, and a ”cartogra...

The behavior of heterogeneous multi-agent systems is studied when the coupling matrices are possibly all different and/or singular (that is, its rank is less than the system dimension). Rank-deficient coupling allows exchange of limited state information, which is suitable for study of output coupling in multi-agent systems. We present a coordinate change that transforms the heterogeneous multi...

AbstRAct This chapter discusses the problem of agent aiding of ad-hoc, decentralized human teams so as to improve team performance on time-stressed group tasks. To see how human teams rise to the challenge, we analyze the communication patterns of teams performing a collaborative search task that recreates some of the cognitive difficulties faced by teams during search and rescue operations. Ou...

Different organizations have different backgrounds of culture and knowledge which might lead to potential conflicts in the modern interorganizational workflow. Another fact in this research area is that each organization wants to keep some parts of its local workflow secret to other organizations. Considering the above features, this thesis proposes an approach of modeling the selfcentered inte...