introduction : the purpose of this study was to examine and compare the social adjustment in balanced and non-balanced patterns of the parent-child relationship.  methods : the research population was all female gifted students in the farzanegan high school in the first educational district of tehran in 2013-14. the sample research included 96 female gifted students who answered the parent-chil...

Innovations in network and information technology have transformed traditional classroom lectures into new approaches that have given universities the opportunity to create a virtual laboratory. However, there is no systematic framework in existing approaches for the development of virtual laboratories. Further, developing a virtual laboratory from scratch is time consuming and costly. This art...

The adapter design pattern [1], commonly used for integration and evolution in component-based systems, is originally described by roles. In classbased systems, the conventional realization of the pattern maps these roles to classes. The recent appearance of mature languages supporting roles as first order programming constructs poses the question whether realizing this pattern directly in role...

This paper presents a collection of patterns as a starting point for a pattern language for agent based systems. After motivation and background, Section 2 discusses the context shared by all of the patterns. Section 3 describes the major architectural pattern, the Layered Agent, while Sections 4 and 5 discuss the main patterns found within the layers, and relationships between the patterns, re...

Choosing the right abstractions is important for managing the complexity of your system. Three important abstractions used today are object, component and agent. Many similarities exist between these abstractions, but to make proper use of each, one should have a good understanding of their differences. Too often, we hear people discussing their agent-based systems when they have simply used th...

This paper explores location-based product authentication in a situation where only the past locations of products that flow in a supply chain are known. We transform location-based authentication into a pattern recognition problem and investigate different solutions based on machine-learning techniques. The proposed solutions are studied with computer simulations that model the flow of genuine...

Inhabitants' behaviour is a significant factor that influences energy consumption and has been previously incorporated as static activity profiles within simulation for energy control & management. In this paper an agent-based approach to simulate reactive/deliberative group behaviour has been proposed and implemented. It takes into account perceptual, psychological (cognitive), social behaviou...