Multi-agent systems are beginning to play an important role in today’s software development. This competition is an attempt to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent systems by identifying key problems and collecting suitable benchmarks that can serve as milestones for testing new approaches and techniques from computational logics. While there exist several competitions in various parts...

an excellent article on this competition; a companion article describes two of the top finishers (Congdon et al. 1993). The second competition attracted even more competitors, and the sophistication of the hardware and software systems seemed to have grown geometrically. An article by Ilah Nourbakhsh (Nourbakhsh et al. 1993) describes some of the top teams from the competition, the strategies t...

This paper describes a case study for the Transformation Tool Contest (TTC) 2015 concerning the execution of models. The case foresees the specification of the operational semantics of a subset of the UML activity diagram language with transformation languages. In particular, the computation of the end result of the execution of the activity diagrams is targeted as well as the provisioning of a...

This report describes the Fifth Annual Graph Drawing Contest , held in conjunction with the 1998 Graph Drawing Symposium in Montreal, Canada. The purpose of the contest is to monitor and challenge the current state of the art in graph-drawing technology 4, 5, 6, 7].

ion Level. Our solution combines imperative code in Java and declarative scripts in ETL andEGL. As a result, according to the evaluation criteria [2], the abstraction level of (a) the Java code to launchtransformations is low, (b) XML to XML-model transformation is low, (c) XML-model to Object-modeltransformation is high, (d) Object-model to code transformation is high, and (e) the ...

Working with innovation is important in several sectors and industries. One emerging arena for innovation is the arrangements of innovation contests. The aim of the paper is to describe and characterize an open innovation contest for improving healthcare, and to address the challenges involved. The research is a qualitative, explorative and interpretive case study of a Swedish region providing ...

Mobilization across social networks is becoming increasingly influential, but little is known about what traits of individuals and their relationships affect their speed of mobilization between them. We ran a global social mobilization contest and recorded personal traits of the participants and those they mobilized. We examined how those traits influenced the speed of mobilization. Individuals...

This paper proposes a method to solve problem that comes with imbalanced training sets which is often seen in the practical applications. We modied Self Growing Neural Network CombNET-II to deal with the imbalanced condition. This model is then applied to practical application which was launched in '99 Fog Forecasting Contest sponsored by Neurocomputing Technical Group of IEICE, Japan. In this ...

The Tenth Annual ICFP Programming Contest was a 72-hour contest held July 20–23 2007 and organised in conjunction with the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2007). As in the previous nine editions, the goal of the contest was to allow teams from all over the world to demonstrate the superiority of their favourite programming languag. This year’s task was ...

Seventy-percent of Americans search health information online, half of whom access medical content on social media websites. In spite of this broad usage, the medical community underutilizes social media to distribute preventive health information. This project aimed to highlight the promise of social media for delivering skin cancer prevention messaging by hosting and quantifying the impact of...