In this paper, we study the impact of low-quality node on the performance of incremental least mean square (ILMS) adaptive networks. Adaptive networks involve many nodes with adaptation and learning capabilities. Low-quality mode in the performance of a node in a practical sensor network is modeled by the observation of pure noise (its observation noise) that leads to an unreliable measurement....

Transnational crime, sometimes called international crime or multinational systemic crime, is more than an extension of domestic crime. In the context of globalization, transnational organized crime groups respond to market incentives and operate with cooperative relationships, which makes the multinational criminal systems become more efficient and powerful. As a result, no single country has ...

The ordering model between single supplier and multi-retailers under the circumstance of non-cooperation supply chain is discussed in this paper, an improved linear price discount strategy is also provided. This strategy considers two situations of incremental discount and decremental discount at the same time. Moreover, Stackelberg game model of both parties’ order on supply and demand is give...

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...

This paper presents the ILP incremental learning system INTHELEX, focusing on its abductive capability. It is based on an abductive proof procedure that aims at attacking the problem of incomplete information by hypothesizing likely facts that are not explicitly stated in the observations. The system implements a framework in which inductive and abductive inference been brought to cooperation, ...

We present results from the concurrent evolution of visual sensing morphologies and sensory-motor controller-networks for visually guided robots. In this paper we analyse two (of many) networks which result from using incremental evolution with variable-length genotypes. The two networks come from separate populations, evolved using a common tness function. The observable behaviours of the two ...

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Many multiagent systems are simulations of aspects of real world societies. In any such simulation of a real world society one must either evolve or design an appropriate balance between cooperation and competition among the individual agents. The question of when a laborious design approach can be replaced by a selforganising evolutionary approach is illuminated by the investigation of a simpl...

Most work on the evolutionary approach to the iterated prisoner’s dilemma (IPD) game uses a binary model where the choice of each player can only be cooperation or defection. However, we rarely commit ourselves to complete cooperation or defection in the real world. This paper examines the continuous IPD game and similarities and differences between the discrete and continuous games. The paper ...