In this era of “Services” everywhere, with the explosive growth of ECommerce and B2B transactions, there is a pressing need for the development of intelligent negotiation systems which consists of feasible architecture, a reliable framework and flexible multi agent based protocols developed in specialized negotiation languages with complete semantics and support for message passing between the ...

We de ne a new notion of function pattern, which supports runtime pattern matching on functions based on their behavior. The ability to runtime dispatch on function type information enables new programmer expressiveness, including support of overloading on higherorder functions as well as other useful patterns. We formally present a type inference system for function patterns. The system answer...

The relationship of coping and defense to Type A behavior pattern (TABP), as measured by the Structured Interview and the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS), was investigated to understand the dynamics of TABP and psychological factors associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. It was hypothesized that global TABP and its component "speed and impatience" would be related to the use of defens...

Insider threads posed by authorized users have caused significant security and privacy risks to IT systems. The behavior of authorized users in using system services must be monitored and controlled. However, the administrators in large distributed systems are overwhelmed by the number of system users, the complexity and changing nature of user activities. This paper presents a new generation o...

Two forms of undulatory locomotion in the lamprey (a lower vertebrate) have been described earlier: fast forward swimming (FFS) used for long distance migrations and slow backward swimming (SBS) used for escape from adverse tactile stimuli. In the present study, we describe another form of escape behavior: slow forward swimming (SFS). We characterize the kinematic and electromyographic patterns...

Two experiments measured the cardiovascular responses of fourth- and fifth- grade boys to tasks that were relevant to Type A characteristics. Boys were classified as Type A or Type B by the Adolescent Structured Interview (ASI) and Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH). Results showed that ASI and MYTH assessments were significantly and moderately correlated--a finding similar to the associatio...

With rapid advances in science and technology, the global positioning system (GPS) tracking techniques have improved and become more convenient for exploring spatial patterns of tourist behavior. In this study, we collected the movement data of touristsusing GPS trackers and anAndriod application (APP) executed on smartphone platform to explore the spatial behaviors and characteristics of touri...

SEEMINGLY HEALTHY PERSONS possessing a behavior pattern (type A) earlier observed to bear an associative" 2 and more recently, a predictive3 4relationship to increased incidence of coronary heart disease also have been found5' 6 to exhibit as a group, abnormal preprandial and postprandial values of serum triglyceride. Moreover, the general pattern of their serum lipid abnormalities is similar t...

We advocate the use of an explicit time representation in syntactic pattern recognition because it can result in more succinct models and easier learning problems. We apply this approach to the real-world problem of learning models for the driving behavior of truck drivers. We discretize the values of onboard sensors into simple events. Instead of the common syntactic pattern recognition approa...

Collective surface migration of bacterial cells on a growth medium can lead to interesting spatiotemporal patterns and dynamical behaviors. Studying the rich behavior of these swarming colonies can provide insight in how the multicellular organisms were originally formed. Bacterial swarming is an example of emergent behavior as a result of interplay between the collective interactions of a popu...