Within a group of cooperating agents the decision making of an individual agent depends on the actions of the other agents. In dynamic environments, these dependencies will change rapidly as a result of the continuously changing state. Via a contextspecific decomposition of the problem into smaller subproblems, coordination graphs offer scalable solutions to the problem of multiagent decision m...

objectives: the aim of this research is to compare cognitive flexibility and adjustment between two groups of students with developmental coordination disorder (dcd) and typically developing students. methods: for this purpose, 50 students with dcd and 50 typically developing students were chosen among 12 primary schools. the developmental coordination disorder questionnaire (dcd-q), adjustment...

one effective method for improving the performance of supply chain is making coordination among members of supply chain. this paper studies the subject of coordination of supply chain by using an insurance contract. the supply chain consists of one-manufacturer and one-retailer that the retailer is faced with potential demand and returning of goods from customer. acceptance of goods returned is...

A silver(I) 3-D porous coordination polymer (PCP, 1) with a sodalite topology undergoes a remarkable reversible crystal-to-crystal expansion and contraction upon exposure to different solvents. Notably, complete desolvation of 1 also facilitates a transformation to a non-porous 2-D coordination polymer (2).

We present a demonstration of a multi-agent prototype for distributed planning and coordination in dynamic non-deterministic multi-actor mixed-initiative environments. The system provides flexible planning, replanning, and task allocation. The key technologies utilized in the system are (i) I-X hierarchical planner with (ii) agent-based architecture and (iii) commitment-based plan representatio...

WIDEPHOS, a β-cyclodextrin cavitand bearing two introverted P(III) donor atoms, readily accommodates two converging Au-X fragments (X = Cl, Br, I). In the corresponding [(WIDEPHOS)(AuX)(2)] complexes, severe steric crowding within the cavity results in one of the P-Au-X rods deviating from linearity, as revealed by an X-ray diffraction study and unusual (31)P magnetic shielding of one of the tw...

This paper examines the coordination of outsourced information system (IS) development, focusing on two sets of questions: How are these projects coordinated, and why? How do the coordination mechanisms evolve during a project, and why? Coordination mechanisms were classified into standards, plans, formal mutual adjustment, and informal mutual adjustment. Two studies were conducted, including s...

Metonymies are known as ways of conceptualizing entities and situations of various sorts. For example, users of PCs usually call the icon depicting a waste paper basket 'basket'. They thus use the name of the depicted object for referring to the depicting object. We use a model airplane ("Baufix" airplane) as the paradigm case for investigating the semiotics of depictional metonymies and the ro...

Although the ecological tradition tends to favour a substantive role for non-market institutions in securing objectives such as environmental sustainability, Green theorists have paid relatively little attention to the important challenge posed to such proposals by the promarket arguments of Austrian Economics. The methods of Ecological Economics, such as multiple criteria evaluation, offer imp...