This paper compares and contrasts several coordination schemes for a system that continuously plans to control collections of rovers or spacecraft using collective mission goals instead of goals or command sequences for each spacecraft. A collection of self-commanding robotic systems would autonomously coordinate itself to satisfy high level science and engineering goals in a changing partially...

cinema as a cultural industry, is the promoter of identity, memory, dreams and collective projects. mexico has introduced its collective identity to the world, using this industry. examining the application of this industry in mexican cinema can be considered an important step for improving the country’s cinema. approaches to the origins of modern nations consider culture as a fundamental const...

INTRODUCTION Care coordination (CC) is an important fulcrum for pursuing a range of health care goals. Current research and policy analyses have focused on aggregated data rather than on understanding what happens within individual cases. At the case level, CC emerges as a complex network of communications among providers over time, crossing and recrossing many organizational boundaries. Micro-...

Historic contexts remind us of an era when cities were built based on the needs, goals, and preferences of their inhabitants. In other words, the mental world of both the builders and the inhabitants was closely interrelated. But by ignoring citizens' memories and interests and their mental needs, today's interventions with rapid developments within historic contexts have led to amnesia and the...

Current localizationpractices suffer fromanarrowandstaticvisionofculture resulting in usability problems for IT product and design. To address this problem, this article compares user localization efforts of mobile messaging technology in two different cultural contexts with a new methodology of cultural usability. It calls for expanding thescopeof localizationpracticesand linkinguser localizat...

Three hurdles are identified that have to be overcome to make interoperability a reality: technology, common frequency and standard, and funding. Of these funding and the collective action problems associated with it poses the most significant obstacle. Based on collective action theory and case studies two strategies are examined that have been utilized to overcome the funding obstacle. Succes...

We merge the current approach to collective action failure based on free-riding (Olson, 1965) with the previous approach focusing on the distortions created by the need of leaders (Michels, 1911 and Max Weber, 1918). Group goals and incentives are set by leaders in view to maximize the probability of success —rather than the group expected payoff. In spite of not being group optimal, success ma...

Utilizing the collective behavior of a population of interacting individuals, based on rather simple local algorithms, is a promising approach for achieving complex goals. We use an onboard online evolutionary model, based on finite Moore automata, to develop collective behavior in an artificial swarm of micro-robots. Experiments have been made in simulation to achieve Collision Avoidance. The ...

Collaboration in nature is often illustrated through the collective behavior of ants. Although entomological studies have shown that certain goals are well-served by this collective behavior, the extent of what such a collaboration can achieve is not immediately clear. We extend past work that has argued that ants are, in principle, able to collectively compute logical circuits, and illustrate ...

Many celebrate the Internet’s ability to connect individuals and facilitate collective action toward a common goal. While numerous systems have been designed to support particular aspects of collective action, few systems support participatory, end-to-end collective action in which a crowd or community identifies opportunities, formulates goals, brainstorms ideas and develops plans, mobilizes, ...