Intersection properties of sets have been widely investigated by many authors. One type of theorems proved for them has the following form [9]. Let S be an n-element set and AI. ... , AN £ S, 1 £ [1, n]. Assume that IAi I1Ajl E 1 for 1,,;;;; i <j ,,;;;;N. How large can N be under this condition, depending on n and I? Thus, e.g., the de Bruijn-Erdos theorem [1] asserts that if IAi I1Ajl = 1 for ...

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A specific form of human and artificial intelligence is needed for an efficient practice or a successful implementation of a moral code. The actual stage and rate of progress in AI studies are generated by their orientation to develop mainly an abstract intelligence form. We propose the integrated analysis of the intelligence as of the morality, considered as systems with internal structure. Is...

This paper compares reproduction schemes for adaptive behavior in an artificial society, where the collective task of the society is the gathering of resources in an artificial environment. The environment is randomly distributed with varying quantities of different resource types, where different resource types yield different fitness rewards for agents that successfully gather them. Gathering...

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The state of the art of robotics is currently hotly debated by two sides providing us with arguments from different perspectives. The technology-driven side tells that the world is driven and run by technological developments, and that robots are here for further enhancements and new applications. It means no less than that technology dictates the governance. The society-driven side opines that...

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Using a dynamical network model of society, we show that cooperation is the norm in the Hawks-Doves game when individuals are allowed to break ties with undesirable neighbors and to make new acquaintances in their extended neighborhood. This is an interesting result, as standard theory for mixing populations prescribes that a certain fraction of defectors must always exist at equilibrium. We di...

representation. Further discussion showed that many of the hard problems encountered by AI researchers derive from constraints imposed by the perspective of attack and might be avoidable attributes of the mind-modeling problem. Similarly, most of the points attacked by critics of AI are more properly directed toward one or more of the mechanist, formalistic, or representational presuppositions ...

EpiSimS is a massive simulation of the movements, activities, and social interactions of individuals in realistic synthetic populations, and of the dynamics of contagious disease spread on the resulting social contact network. This paper describes the assumptions and methodology in the EpiSimS model. It also describes and presents a simulation of the spatial dynamics of pandemic influenza in an...