The problem of designing and refining tasklevel strategies in an embedded multiagent setting is an important unsolved question. To address this problem, we have developed a multistrategy system that combines two learning methods: operationalization of high-level advice provided by a human and incremental refinement by a genetic algorithm. The first method generates seed rules for finer-grained ...

We describe an approach for doubling distribution grid capacity for connecting renewable generators based on curtailing a maximum of 5 % of the yearly energy fed in to the grid on a pergenerator basis. The paper contains information about the control unit needed for automatic minimum curtailment and the field test that has been set up to validate the approach. Furthermore, topics concerning the...

Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the elicitation of the goals to be achieved by the system envisioned, the operationalization of such goals into specifications of services and constraints, and the assignment of responsibilities for the resulting requirements to agents such as humans, devices, and software. Getting high-quality requirements is difficult and critical. Recent survey...

This paper describes several results of Wimmics, a research lab which names stands for: web-instrumented man-machine interactions, communities, and semantics. The approaches introduced here rely on graph-oriented knowledge representation, reasoning and operationalization to model and support actors, actions and interactions in web-based epistemic communities. The research results are applied to...

The usability requirement is extremely important to software artifacts especially in the area of computer games. This requirement can be classified as a quality or a nonfunctional requirement. Our work focuses on the operationalization of usability in the context of an educational game using the Semiotics Inspection method from the area of Human-Computer Interaction. SimulES-W is the first digi...

Legitimacy is widely invoked as a condition, cause, and outcome of other social phenomena, yet measuring legitimacy persistent challenge. In this article, I synthesize existing approaches to conceptualizing across the sciences identify agreed upon definitional properties. then build on these points consensus develop generalizable approach operationalization. implies specific relationships among...