The second-generation Web has amplified and extended new ways of online communication. Millions of people now interact through blogs, collaborate through wikis, play multiplayer games, publish podcasts and video, build relationships through social network sites, and evaluate all the above forms of communication through feedback and ranking mechanisms. This article analyzes the emergent semiotic...

Dynamic task allocation is an essential requirement for multi-robot systems operating in unknown dynamic environments. It allows robots to change their behavior in response to environmental changes or actions of other robots in order to improve overall system performance. Emergent coordination algorithms for task allocation that use only local sensing and no direct communication between robots ...

Most of the existing research on emergency evacuation strategies focus on city evacuation planning that highly depends on the use of vehicles or evacuation from buildings. However, for large areas with limited use of vehicles such as theme parks, evacuation of pedestrians and emergent events must be tracked for safety reasons. As hazards may cause certain damages to services, networks with disa...

Realistic communication is one of the most difficult aspects of simulating group behavior because the patterns produced by group communication are complex and not easily definable. In this paper, we present a model, developed using artificial life methodology, for creating simulations of group communication. Our model employs autonomous, artificial agents to produce emergent group behavior that...

Ontologies have primarily been promoted to facilitate interagent communication and knowledge reuse. There has not been as much emphasis on using ontologies to improve system quality. As a result, typically, ontology development, and verification and validation are treated as different stages in the life cycle. However, this paper argues that ontology design should include emergent knowledge tha...

Strategic business processes are typically one-off processes of strategic organisational significance that involve senior members of the organisation. Strategic business processes, and sub-processes, are classified as either goal-directed or emergent. A goal-directed process is completed successfully when its goal is achieved. An emergent process is completed when the resources allocated to it ...

speaking of curriculum, very often we think of some exact, preplanned curricula determined for schools in advance. however in the new approach called emergent curriculum, all the beneficiaries including students, teachers, parents , society and all of whom are considered protagonists play some role in curriculum decision making and formation of learning. in emergent curriculum inspired by reggi...

Post hoc analyses suggest that memantine treatment may provide communication-related benefits in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this 12-week, international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of memantine (10 mg bid), the functional communication abilities of patients with AD (MMSE range: 10-19) were assessed using the Functional Linguistic Communication Inventory (F...