Varying degrees of autonomy of subordinate agents and their effects to the global performance have not been studied. In this paper, a new hybrid control architecture is proposed with the capability of dynamic update of autonomy of agents. The key feature is the penalty function, which indicates the degree of negative impact of changing the original schedule on the global performance. The penalt...

This paper presents ZOMBILINGO, a Game With A Purpose (GWAP) that allows for the dependency syntax annotation of French corpora. The created resource is freely available on the game Web site. Mots-clés : jeux ayant un but, complexité, annotation, syntaxe en dépendances.

This is the second part of an article on preparing images for medical publication. The first part dealt with optimal capture and export of pixel-based medical images. This part will deal with post-processing and editing of such images using specific software tools, and with the use of graphics illustration and charting software applications for creation of medical illustrations and charts. In t...

Importance measures are widely used in reliability engineering. To support system reliability optimization, this paper studies the relationship and changing characteristics of the Birnbaum importance measures (BMs) for different components in binary coherent systems. First, the probabilistic meaning of BM and a modeling method for binary coherent system based on Bayesian network (BN) are presen...

The lexicon has long been assumed to be the source of all conceptual content expressed by sentences. Syntactic structures have correspondingly been seen only as providing instructions for the assembly of the concepts expressed by words. Under this view, sentences have meaning, but the syntactic structures which sentences instantiate do not. This paper challenges this view: it uses the phenomeno...

This paper presents Indigenous youths’ perspectives on well-being. Using youth participatory action research with the advisory committee of Québec Youth Research Network Chair (Canada), community care emerged as central feature well-being and was then visually presented in form a postcard. We discuss meaning given to care, factors that support it, role visual illustration can play promoting cha...

Brazil is a strong representative of world production in the textile sector. The fashion industry has economic benefits for country, however it responsible negative impacts on environment. In search sustainable alternatives, concepts and techniques emerge that aim to mitigate caused by growing demand, including zero waste disposal. Fashion illustration an area ​​fashion gained greater visibilit...

[Special feature] Artificial Intelligence From Personal to Societal Knowledge Working to Unravel the Secrets of Biological Activity Through Inference "Meaning" Links Information, Changing the Web New Data Mining Made Possible by AI Artificial Intelligence Reasons about the Courses of Trials Isao Echizen Associate Professor , Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, NII Sharing expe...