This article analyzes Web searching behavior for homework assignments of high school students through field observations in class and at the terminal with students thinking aloud, and through interviews with various participants, including the teacher and librarian. Students performed focused searching and progressed through a search swiftly and flexibly. They used landmarks and assumed that on...

Collision avoidance in the area of swarm robotics is very important. The lacking ability such collision mentioned as one important reason for sparse distribution small test robots named Kilobots. In this research paper, two new algorithms providing a strategy are presented and compared with previous results. first algorithm uses randomness to decide which several approaching Kilobots stopped de...

Although information searching in hypermedia environments has become a new important problem solving capability, there is not much known about what types of individual characteristics constitute a successful information search behavior. This study mainly investigated which of the 2 factors, 1) natural characteristics (cognitive style), and 2) acquired knowledge (domain knowledge) had a stronger...

In spiny lobsters and other decapod crustaceans, odorant-mediated searching behavior patterns are driven primarily by chemosensory neurons in the antennules. Two groups of antennular chemosensory neurons can be distinguished on the basis of the sensilla that they innervate and their central projections: those that innervate the aesthetasc sensilla on the lateral flagella and project into the gl...

Current peer-to-peer systems are targeted for information sharing, file storage, searching and indexing often using an overlay network. In this paper we expand the scope of peer-to-peer systems to include the concept of " communities ". Communities are like interest groups, modeled after human communities and can overlap. They can also exist without anyone knowing about their existence. Communi...

Very little is known about the searching behavior and sensory cues that Laricobius spp. (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) predators use to locate suitable habitats and prey, which limits our ability to collect and monitor them for classical biological control of adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae). The aim of this study was to examine the visual ability and the searching behavior of newly emerged L. nigri...

Rational analysis has been successful in explaining a variety of different aspects of human cognition (Anderson, 1990; Chater & Oaksford, 1999; Marr, 1982; Oaksford & Chater, 1998). The explanations provided by rational analysis have two properties: they emphasize the connection between behavior and the structure of the environment, and they focus on the abstract computational problems being so...