We consider words as a network of interacting letters, and approximate the probability distribution of states taken on by this network. Despite the intuition that the rules of English spelling are highly combinatorial (and arbitrary), we find that maximum entropy models consistent with pairwise correlations among letters provide a surprisingly good approximation to the full statistics of four l...

This paper deals with a multi-agent-based interval type-2 fuzzy (IT2F) expert systemfor scheduling steel continuous casting. Continuous caster scheduling is a complex and extensiveprocess that needs expert staff. In this study, a distributed multi-agent-based structure is proposed as asolution. The agents used herein can cooperate with each other via various communication protocols.To facilitat...

The paper formalizes a distributed approach to the problem of supervising the execution of a multi-agent plan where (possibly joint) actions are executed concurrently by a team of cooperating agents in a partially observable environment. The notions of plan and agent diagnosis are introduced and discussed.

This essay describes and reflects on the central river of a small post-industrial city in Maine (USA), interweaving author’s experience place with voices three local poets, as way considering how its have been represented—as pastoral, abject, beautiful, hybrid.

A recently emerging and fast growing topic in mathematics considers very large finite structures as approximations of infinite analytic objects. This approach enables one to use a variety of tools from analysis to study graphs, hypergraphs, permutations, subsets of groups and many other fundamental structures. There are several applications in extremal combinatorics, Fourier analysis (also in a...

The landscape in which people live is made up of many features, which are named and have importance for cultural reasons. Prominent among these are the naming of upland features such as mountains, but mountains are an enigmatic phenomenon which do not bear precise and repeatable definition. They have a vague spatial extent, and recent research has modelled such classes as spatial fuzzy sets. We...

RÉSUMÉ. Nous présentons un nouvel algorithme de planification pour la construction de systèmes multi-agents réactifs et situés pouvant se modéliser par des processus de décision de Markov décentralisés (DEC-POMDP). Cet algorithme est fondé sur la programmation dynamique à base de points. Il est dérivé de techniques de programmation dynamique optimale utilisées pour résoudre des jeux stochastiqu...

We present a novel representation of the prediction market using a partially observable stochastic game with information (POSGI), that can be used by each trading agent to precisely calculate the state of the market. We then propose that a correlated equilibrium (CE) strategy can be used by the agents to dynamically calculate the prices at which they should trade securities in the prediction ma...