This article describes research in the control of UAVs. Control strategies exist for individual UAVs, but not for large, coordinated teams. While there is a general agreement that a cooperative, team or swarm approach to UAV control can be beneficial for a number of military and civilian applications, little work has been done to understand if and when it even makes sense to use more than a sin...

Previously we reported the inability of genomic prediction methods based on linear models to accurately predict trait values composed of an epistatic genetic architecture. We also reported non-parametric genomic prediction methods applied to the same data produced reasonably accurate predictions. The difference led us to propose analyses by paired parametric and non-parametric methods to the sa...

This chapter studies the cooperative broadcasting in wireless networks. We especially focus on multistage cooperative broadcasting in which the message from a source node is relayed by multiple groups of cooperating nodes. Interestingly, group transmissions become beneficial in the case of broadcasting as opposed to the case in traditional networks where receptions from different transmitters a...

This chapter studies the cooperative broadcasting in wireless networks. We especially focus on multistage cooperative broadcasting in which the message from a source node is relayed by multiple groups of cooperating nodes. Interestingly, group transmissions become beneficial in the case of broadcasting as opposed to the case in traditional networks where receptions from different transmitters a...

In recent years, the information and communication technology (ICT) has created a significant impact on the methods of communicating information and knowledge to the learners and, consequently, innovative teaching techniques have evolved to change the way teachers teach and students learn. In this paper, the focus is on a study which was conducted on a group-based cooperative learning class to ...

This paper reports on evaluation methodology applied in the Experimental Housing and Urban Design program (Experimenteller Wohnungsund Städtebau Exwost) of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung) in Germany. The specific context is the current (2004-2006) program 'Potentials of Housing Cooperatives' (Genosse...

The paper presents the experiments made to adapt and to synchronise the linguistic resources of the French language processing modules integrated in the MIAMM prototype, designed to handle multi-modal human-machine interactions. These experiments allowed us to identify a methodology for adapting multilingual resources for a dialogue system. In the paper, we describe the iterative joint process ...

This paper highlights a work under development on a regional competitiveness project. We report on a multi-lateral, multi-scale perspective for building cooperative relationships that enhance competitiveness Regionally. The approach mimics a System of Systems methodology whereby entity relationships are captured and defined along several dimensions involving multiple constituents and multiple d...

ADELFE is a methodology proposed to help and guide the designer during the development of an Adaptive Multi-Agent System (AMAS). In this paper, we propose extensions to ADELFE in order to facilitate the task of the designer and help him to detect and correct the Non Cooperative Situations that the agent may encounter during its life. Keywords-ADELFE, Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems, Simulation Bas...

We propose a software architecture for user-cooperative systems, like knowledge systems. This architecture incorporates important notions for building up a context, such as cooperation, explanations and incremental knowledge acquisition. Our main concern in this paper is representation methodology. We show that the architecture can be realized as a pure first order theory, which we argue consti...