Natural disasters are increasing in terms of numbers, intensity and related damages. Facing these extreme events, several financial instruments (public funds, catastrophe bonds, insurance policies) may help to hedge risk provided they supply emergency funding, compensation to the victimes and support to reconstruction [6]. They could be a critical asset aiming at reinforcing proactivity and res...

The use of the agent paradigm is steadily increasing in the games development field. Some agent features, like autonomy, proactivity, and sociability help us to develop more realistic and detailed games. This work shows how to integrate some artificial intelligence tools and concepts, specially multi-agent systems, to develop a strategic game. Beyond the agents, this game uses organization, env...

Psychological reattachment means mentally tuning into one's work before starting in the morning. In this daily diary study, we investigated whether psychological may be beneficial not only for engagement but also proactivity during day. We moreover considered two competing theoretical propositions regarding role of effect sleep quality on and proactivity. The first proposition assumes a cogniti...

The increased scope and complexity of tasks that people perform as part of their routine work has led to growing interest in the development of intelligent personal assistive agents that can aid a human in managing and performing tasks. One desired capability for such agents is that they be able to act proactively to anticipate user needs, opportunities and problems, and then act on their own i...

End-to-end QoS control over best-effort and differentiated service networks which exhibit variability in their exported service properties looms as an important challenge. In previous work, we have shown how packet-level adaptive FEC can be used in dynamic networks to facilitate invariant user-specified QoS in an end-to-end manner. This paper addresses two important problems—self-similar bursti...

There has been a noticeable shift in the relative composition of the industry in the developed countries in recent years; manufacturing is decreasing while the service sector is becoming more important. However, currently most simulation models for investigating service systems are still built in the same way as manufacturing simulation models, using a process-oriented world view, i.e. they mod...

Absrracr-End-taend QOS control over best-effort and differentiated service networks which exhibit variability in their exported service properties looms as an important challenge. In previous work, we have shown how packet-level adaptive FEC can be used in dynamic networks to fadlitate invariant user-specified QoS in an end-to-end manner. This paper addresses two important problems-seit-similar...