This document describes the work performed by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in its second participation at TAC-KBP 2013 in both the Entity Linking and the Slot Filling tasks.

Sixty-three mallards were fed one of ten poly(methyl methacrylate) based synthetic grit formulations containing varying concentrations of a proposed wildlife contraceptive (nicarbazin), plasticizer (acetyl tributylcitrate) and/or cross-linking agent (1,4-butanediol diacrylate). Release characteristics of the contraceptive agent were monitored for the purpose of developing a contraceptive formul...

The complexity of most multi-agent systems prohibits a hand-coded approach to decision making. I n addition to that, a cotnplex, dynamic, adversarial environment like the one of a football game makes decision-making and cooperation even more diflcult. This paper addresses these problems by using machine learning techniques and agent technology. By gathering useful experience fi-om earlier stage...

Multi-Agent Systems have been proposed as a suitable conceptual and technological framework for building information systems which operate in open, evolving, heterogeneous environments. Our research aims at proposing design techniques and support tools for developing such complex systems. In this paper we address the problem of better linking requirements analysis to detailed design and impleme...

A chrome gel system with 13 million molecular weight and 19 polymer DQ-8 cross-linking agent is dynamically gelled under different conditions of 50-mesh 100-mesh screens shear rates. Concentration limit. The experiment shows that the critical concentration gelation 500-700mg/L, new in 80mg/L-90mg/L. cross-linker cut by steel mesh. post-gelation time prolonged. Between 6h-10h, after 12 days test...

A model describing the response of the growth of single human cells in the absence and presence of the anti-cancer agent topotecan (TPT) is presented. The model includes a novel coupling of both the kinetics of TPT and cell cycle responses to the agent. By linking the models in this way, rather than using separate (disjoint) approaches, it is possible to illustrate how the drug perturbs the cel...

Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as well as to user needs. We are conducting research on how to build these complex systems in the context of agent-oriented software. This short paper gives an overview of our approach (described in details in [3]) which r...

This paper analyzes the distributed planning architecture proposed by Durfee (Durfee 1999) and discusses the properties of the suggested architecture in a peerto-peer, dynamic and semi-trusted environment. The I-Globe integrated architecture linking classical planning algorithms with multi-agent technologies is presented (namely using the Hierarchical Task Network style I-X technology and A-glo...