Microbial Actors in the Evolutionary Drama

Tough Art and Microbial Drama

semiprecious stones―in the most refi ned form especially cut into hard cubes known as tesserae―were set at different angles and depths and arranged into tactile patterns depicting mythologic subjects, everyday or theatrical scenes, and many other themes to adorn architectural structures. Even though they were sometimes found outside buildings, mosaics were primarily used on interior surfaces. A...

Editorial: Dysmetabolism, Obesity, and Inflammation: Three Prominent Actors in the Drama of Major Neuropsychiatric Disorders

A large and convincing body of evidence demonstrates that medical conditions associated with chronic inflammatory and immunological abnormalities may represent risk factors for development of neuropsychiatric disorders. Indeed obesity, dysmetabolic conditions, including diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and autoimmune diseases are frequently associated to the development of neurodegenerative and ps...

Evolutionary approache! to literature and drama

Failing Believably: Toward Drama Management with Autonomous Actors in Interactive Narratives

Interactive Narrative is an approach to interactive entertainment that enables the player to make decisions that directly affect the direction and/or outcome of the narrative experience being delivered by the computer system. One common interactive narrative technique is to use a drama manager to achieve a specific narrative experience. To achieve character believability, autonomous character a...

Co-Evolutionary Learning Of Contextual Asymmetric Actors

Co-evolutionary learning of the iterated prisoner’s dilemma (IPD) has been used to model and simulate interactions, which may not be realistic due to assumptions of a fixed and symmetric payoff matrix for all players. Recently, we proposed to extend the co-evolutionary learning framework for any two-player repeated encounter game to model more realistic behavioral interactions. One issue we stu...