Energy security is an issue that many countries pay more attention to. Cooperation is a good way to solute it. According to the complex system theory, the regional energy cooperation means a state or process of balance system formed by the interaction and behavior coordination between agents. The features of the regional energy cooperation risk include: uncertainty, potential, fuzziness, divers...

Background In the real world, agents or entities are in a continuous state of interactions (Niazi et al. 2011). Examples of these include the continuously interacting agents in the stock market (Bonabeau 2002). These agents and systems can be adaptive in nature and can also evolve. Their current behavior can depend on the past so they often learn from history. The interaction of agents leads to...

The motivation for this multi-part series is solely my observation that much of the writing on complexity theory seems to have arbitrarily ignored the vast systems theory literature. I don’t know whether this omission is deliberate (i.e., motivated by the political need to differentiate and promote one set of topical boundaries from another; a situation unfortunately driven by a reductionist fu...

The motivation for this multi-part series is solely my observation that much of the writing on complexity theory seems to have arbitrarily ignored the vast systems theory literature. I don’t know whether this omission is deliberate (i.e., motivated by the political need to differentiate and promote one set of topical boundaries from another; a situation unfortunately driven by a reductionist fu...

This paper discusses the interplay between networks and control systems. As we gain more understanding about the structure and dynamics of physical networks, their effects on the performance of closed-loop control systems, as well as the ability to control such networks, provide fertile areas of research. The paper reviews such research with special emphasis on the connectivity and delays in th...

Throughout society there are instances of seemingly irrational imitative behavior, or fads. Everyone can identify a fad when they see one yet there is no comprehensive economic theory to explain their origins or demise. There are several theories that discuss why people replicate the choices of other agents in the economy, but none that are specific to the lifecycle of a fad. This paper is able...

Currently grip control during in-hand manipulation is usually modeled as part of a monolithic task, yielding complex controllers based on force control specialized for their situations. Such non-modular and specialized control approaches render the generalization of these controllers to new in-hand manipulation tasks difficult. Clearly, a grip control approach that generalizes well between seve...

This is a introductory survey of some recent developments of “Galois ideas” in Arithmetic, Complex Analysis, Transcendental Number Theory and Quantum Field Theory, and of some of their interrelations.

Motivating students is a major issue for current Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Videogames are known to have a very addictive effect on their users. We have the intuition that such a phenomenon is partially due to the autonomy support videogames provide to their user. In fact, modern theories of motivation such as the Self Determination Theory (SDT) have shown the positive motivational impact of...