Natural systems are currently being regarded as rich sources of inspiration for engineering artificial systems, particularly when adopting the multiagent system (MAS) paradigm. To promote a systematic reuse of mechanisms featured in self-organizing systems, we analyse a selected list of design patterns for recurrent problems in the literature. Starting from our reference MAS metamodel, we provi...

Our technologies complexify our environments. Thus, new technologies need to deal with more and more complexity. Several efforts have been made to deal with this complexity using the concept of self-organization. However, in order to promote its use and understanding, we must first have a pragmatic understanding of complexity and self-organization. This paper presents a conceptual framework for...

It is well known that robotic manipulators are highly nonlinear coupling dynamic systems. It is difficult to establish an appropriate mathematical model for designing a model-based controller. The model-free feature of fuzzy logic control strategy was employed to design robotic motion controller. However, there is no guide rule for designing the fuzzy rule bank and parameters, it still needs ti...

Organizing software work into self-contained, low-context microtasks opens new opportunities for software development, reducing the barriers to contribute to software work and enabling software projects to be more fluid. Achieving this vision requires understanding the role of context in software development and designing new approaches for managing context.

ParaFPGA 2011 marks the third mini-symposium devoted to the methodology, design and implementation of parallel applications using FPGAs. The focus of the contributions is mainly on organizing parallel applications in multiple FPGAs. This includes experiences from building a supercomputer with FPGAs, automatic and dedicated balancing of different tasks on heterogeneous FPGA constellations and de...

This paper focuses on challenges of designing working models of embodied intelligence (EI). Formal definitions of embodied intelligence and its embodiment are given. Three self-organizing hierarchical structures – sensory, motor, and goal creation pathways form the core of EI. The three pathways are developed simultaneously extracting knowledge and learning skills through interaction with the e...

organizing lobar pneumonia is a rare form of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.  herein, we report a rare case of organizing pneumonia involving lung, mediastinum and esophagus.  a 16-year-old girl was referred to our center with clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia and weight loss.  the main abnormal radiologic and endoscopic findings were stricture of the lower third of esopha...

Testing Factors that Affect Growth in Fish Central to good science are accurate observations, testable hypotheses, well-designed experiments or other tests, and reasonable data analyses. The purpose of Laboratory 1 is to introduce you to the basics of designing and analyzing experiments. The following two laboratory exercises will provide you with further steps in organizing and analyzing data....

109 Abstract. The Zachman Framework for information systems architecture is a scheme for classifying and organizing the design artefacts created in the process of designing and producing information systems. It classifies artefacts on two views or dimensions: perspectives or roles and characteristics or abstractions. Although motivation abstractions are often neglected, the motivation should be...