Argyllshire Clans

Cooperative clans

Purpose – To provide a mechanism for agents to form, maintain, and reason within medium-term coalitions, called clans, based upon the notions of trust and motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The model is based upon the notions of trust (representing an agent’s assessment of another’s honesty and reliability) and motivations (which represent an agent’s high-level goals). The paper describe...

Supporting Cooperation through Clans

Cooperation is the foundation of multi-agent systems, and allows agents to interact to achieve complex goals. In dynamic environments cooperation gives rise to inherent uncertainty since we cannot predict how agents will respond to environmental change. Consequently, agents must have some mechanism for coping with this uncertainty. In particular, agents must manage the risk resulting from inter...

Interval Clans with Nondegenerate Kernel1

Introduction. The object of this paper is to characterize the clans (compact connected Hausdorff topological semigroups with an identity element) which are homeomorphic to a unit interval and which have a nondegenerate kernel (minimal two-sided ideal). The corresponding case when the kernel is degenerate has been characterized in a paper by H. Cohen and L. I. Wade [2] together with an earlier p...

Analyzing microarray data using CLANS

UNLABELLED Analysis of microarray experiments is complicated by the huge amount of data involved. Searching for groups of co-expressed genes is akin to searching for protein families in a database as, in both cases, small subsets of genes with similar features are to be found within vast quantities of data. CLANS was originally developed to find protein families in large sets of amino acid sequ...

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