Purpose – To provide a mechanism for agents to form, maintain, and reason within medium-term coalitions, called clans, based upon the notions of trust and motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The model is based upon the notions of trust (representing an agent’s assessment of another’s honesty and reliability) and motivations (which represent an agent’s high-level goals). The paper describe...

Perfect simulation of an one-dimensional loss network on R with length distribution π and cable capacity C can performed using the clan of ancestors method. Domination of the clan of ancestors by a branching process with dependency in two generations improves the known sufficient conditions for the perfect scheme to be applicable.

Although popular text search engines allow users to retrieve similar web pages, source code search engines do not have this feature. Knowing similarity between applications plays an important role in improving understanding and assessing reusability of these applications, rapid prototyping, and discovering code theft and plagiarism. However, detecting similar applications is a notoriously diffi...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare the outcomes of the manually coded Northwestern Narrative Language Analysis (NNLA) system, which was developed for characterizing agrammatic production patterns, and the automated Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN) system, which has recently been adopted to analyze speech samples of individuals with aphasia (a) for reliability purposes to ascer...

In previous work the distance travelled by UK football clubs, and their supporters, over the Christmas/New Year period was minimised. This is important as it is not only a holiday season but, often, there is bad weather at this time of the year. Whilst searching for good quality solutions for this problem, various constraints have to be respected. One of these relates to clashes, which measures...