Current E-Commerce trading systems which look at electronic negotiation facilities usually uses predefined and non-adaptive negotiation mechanisms [Maes, et. al. 1999]. This paper presents a negotiation framework which applies Case-Based Reasoning(CBR) techniques to capture and reuse previously successful negotiation experiences. This experience based negotiation framework provides adaptive neg...

Gene drives have the potential to rapidly replace a harmful wild-type allele with a gene drive allele engineered to have desired functionalities. However, an accidental or premature release of a gene drive construct to the natural environment could damage an ecosystem irreversibly. Thus, it is important to understand the spatiotemporal consequences of the super-Mendelian population genetics bef...

This article presents some of the characteristics of future service-oriented systems. Also, it focuses on a set of architecture and design drivers for these future serviceoriented systems that can help meet new expectations without sacrificing the loosely coupled, stateless, standards-based characteristics that have driven SOA adoption in many contexts. The article concludes with thoughts on th...

It occurs frequently in robotic applications that a robot manipulates a workpiece which is free to slide on a work surface. Because the pressure distribution supporting the workpiece on the work surface cannot in general be known, the motion of the workpiece cannot be calculated uniquely. Yet despite this indeterminacy, several researchers have shown that sliding motions can be employed to accu...

epicentre of the epidemic in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, found that no-one was wearing one. The majority of journalists dealt with the underlying uncertainties of the story rather well. Using information from national laboratories and the World Health Organization, they reported the initial pinpointing of the causative agent as a paramyxovirus, the subsequent implication of ...

In the current work, we test the hypothesis that 'at-issue' and 'not-at-issue' content (Potts, 2005) are processed semi-independently. In a written rating study comparing restrictive relative clauses and parentheticals in interrogatives and declaratives, we observe a significantly larger length penalty for restrictive relative clauses than for parentheticals. This difference cannot be attribute...