A group of agents can be used to perform patrolling tasks in a variety of domains ranging from computer network administration to computer wargame simulations. Despite its wide range of potential applications, multiagent architectures for patrolling have not been studied in depth yet. First state of the art approaches used to deal with related problems cannot be easily adapted to the patrolling...

By relative study on distance measure and conflict evidence synthesis of evidence theory, we find it is very difficult to define strict evidence distance measurement directly. While indirect evidence distance measuring which is based on BPA probability transformation is simple and effective. Current BPA probability transformation methods lack reasonable transformation basis and strong subjectiv...

advanced exergy analysis is a tool to split the exergy destruction of the system to achieve a better perspective about the potentials of a system for improvements. in addition, the component interactions and their exergy destruction dependency with the other equipment are investigated through the advanced exergy analysis. for this purpose, it divides the exergy destruction calculated by convent...

The inhibition of 99 children was observed from the start ofpnsschool through Grade 1 in multiple settings: adult strangers, dyadic play with unfamiliar and familiar peers, and regular free play in class. A multisetting-multimcthod-multioccasion analysis revealed (a) a high longitudinal stability of inhibition toward strangers and a medium stability of inhibition in class, (b) a decreasing cons...

This paper reviews the results of a study into combining evidence from multiple streams of surveillance data in order to improve timeliness and specificity of detection of bio-events. In the experiments we used three streams of real foodand agriculture-safety related data that is being routinely collected at slaughter houses across the nation, and which carry mutually complementary information ...

The multi-agent paradigm is widely used to provide solutions to a variety of organizational problems related to the collective achievement of one or more tasks. All these problems share a common difficulty of design: how to proceed from a global specification of the collective task to the specification of the local behaviors, which are to be provided to the agents? We have defined the Cassiopei...

In this paper, a bi-objective multi-product single-vendor single-buyer supply chain problem is studied under green vendor-managed inventory (VMI) policy based on the economic production quantity (EPQ) model. To bring the model closer to real-world supply chain, four constraints of model including backordering cost, number of orders, production budget and warehouse space are considered stochasti...