Corrosion is a common problem in reinforced concrete construction. can be initiated by cracks forming on the surface of concrete. Widening will facilitate ingress aggressive liquids or gases from surrounding environment, which cause problems with reinforcement and form corrosion. Self-healing methods make efforts to prevent crack widening. The self-healing method an effort repair damage that do...

In this paper we describe an individual-based model to account for the growth and morphogenesis of networks of galleries in the ant Messor sancta. The activity of the individuals depends only on their local perception of the immediate surroundings. Coordination between ants arises from the modifications of the environment resulting from their activity: the removal of sand pellets and a pheromon...

In this work we address the issue of the uncertainty faced by a user participating in multiagent debate. We propose a way to compute the relative relevance of arguments for such a user, by merging the classical argumentation framework proposed in [5] into a game theoretic coalitional setting, where the worth of a collection of arguments (opinions) can be seen as the combination of the informati...

This paper addresses the issue of learning from communication among agents that work in the same domain, are capable of learning from examples, and communicate using an argumentative framework. We will present (1) an argumentation framework for Case-Based Reasoning agents and (2) an individual policy for agents to generate arguments and counterarguments (including counterexamples). We focus on ...

ASiDE is an actor-based software framework that has the goals of simplifying the development of large and distributed complex systems and of guarantying an efficient execution of applications. This software framework provides a flexible actor implementation that simplifies the writing of the actors by delegating the management of events (i.e., the reception of messages) to the execution environ...

In this work we address the issue of the uncertainty faced by a user participating in multiagent debate. We propose a way to compute the relative relevance of arguments for such a user, by merging the classical argumentation framework proposed in [5] into a game theoretic coalitional setting, where the worth of a collection of arguments (opinions) can be seen as the combination of the informati...

In [2] a general framework for the study of Emergence and hyper-structure was presented. This approach is mostly concerned with the description of such systems. In this paper we will try to bring forth a different aspect of this model we feel will be useful in the engineering of agent based solutions, namely the symbiotic approach. In this approach a self-organizing method of dividing the more ...

This paper tests a learning-based model of strategic teaching in repeated games with incomplete information. The repeated game has a long-run player whose type is unknown to a group of short-run players. The proposed model assumes a fraction of ‘short-run’ players follow a one-parameter learning model (self-tuning EWA). In addition, some ‘long-run’ players are myopic while others are sophistica...