This study tested the hypothesis that friends are more similar in proactive aggression than in reactive aggression. Interpersonal processes that may account for this similarity (i.e., selection and mutual influence) were also examined. In the fall and spring of the school year, the friendships of 185 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade boys were identified. Proactive and reactive aggressive behavior were...

Moving-target defense has been hypothesized as a potential game changer in cyber defense, including that for computer networks. However there has been little work to study how much proactively changing a network’s configuration can increase the difficulty for attackers and thus improve the resilience of the system under attack. In this paper we present a basic design schema of a movingtarget ne...

The present study addressed whether developmental improvement in working memory span task performance relies upon a growing ability to proactively plan response sequences during childhood. Two hundred thirteen children completed a working memory span task in which they used a touchscreen to reproduce orally presented sequences of animal names. Children were assessed longitudinally at 7 time poi...

Current approaches that model dynamism in DCOPs solve a sequence of static problems, reacting to changes in the environment as the agents observe them. Such approaches thus ignore possible predictions on future changes. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Proactive Dynamic DCOPs (PD-DCOPs), a novel formalism to model dynamic DCOPs in the presence of exogenous uncertainty. In contrast to r...

In this position paper we argue that an intelligent program development environment that proactively supports the user helps a mainstreamprogrammer to overcome thedifficulties of programmingmulti-core computing systems. We propose a programming environment based on intelligent software agents that enables users to work at a high level of abstraction while automating low-level implementation act...

In recent years, a variety of unicast and multicast routing protocols for Mobile Ad hoc wireless NETworks (MANETs) have been developed. The Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) is a hybrid unicast protocol that proactively maintains routing information for a local neighborhood (routing zone), while reactively acquiring routes to destinations beyond the routing zone. In this paper, we extend ZRP for appl...

A new approach to proactively maintain a massively interconnected communications network is described. Tl’fis approach has been applied to the detection and prediction of chronic transmission faults in AT&T’s digital communications network. A windowing technique was applied to large volumes of diagnostic data, and these data were analyzed by machine learning methods. A set of conditions has bee...

The rapid growth of renewable energy developments, particularly offshore wind, means that worldwide there are hundreds artificial structures in the marine environment will at some point require removal. Decommissioning activities can have a range effects on environment, which assessed through an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) prior to EIA provides opportunity explore best environmental o...