Group-based competition is considered to be a ubiquitous social context in human society. However, little is known about its potential effects on children's prosocial behaviors. To this end, we designed an experiment in which two age groups (2.5-3.5 years of age and 5.5-6.5 years of age) engaged in an intergroup competition task where they did a so-called "game" where each child transferred tab...

Improving the development of agent intelligence requires improving the mechanisms of that development. This paper explores the application of an established software methodology, object-oriented design, to agent development in two ways. We present a distributed agent architecture, Edmund, and describe first its own object-oriented structure. Then we relate the methodology for developing agent b...

Communication networks supporting real-time tasks need to guarantee timely delivery of critical data and commands. Worst-case delay performance of these networks can be analyzed using deterministic network calculus. In this report, we identify the discrepancy between existing bit-oriented delay bounding methods and packet-oriented behaviors of network devices. An optimization-based bit-oriented...

To develop distributed applications requires to consider not only functional requirements but also nonfunctional requirements such as distributions, synchronizations, and scheduling policies. Specifying such non-functional requirements is necessary for supporting on-line capabilities of Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ADS). However, the existing design notations and methods do not address suc...

Riverine biodiversity in Europe is under threat from a range of anthropogenic factors. Key to effective conservation the public's willingness support restoration efforts. Based on value-belief-norm (VBN) theory and using longitudinal survey design with n = 1,000 respondents per each four countries (France, Germany, Norway, Sweden) we measured individual conservation-oriented behaviors natural s...

The effects of 3 weeks of social (control), postural, or object-oriented experiences on 9- to 21-week-old infants' (N = 42) reaching, exploration, and means-end behaviors were assessed. Coders recorded object contacts, mouthing, fingering, attention, and affect from video. Postural and object-oriented experiences advanced reaching, haptic exploration of objects, and developing means-end behavio...

Object Modeling Technique is widely applied in the field of software engineering; and in this paper we applied this technique to model a mobile robot including its behaviors and interactions with environment. The paper first describes key background knowledge about object oriented analysis in software engineering, behavior based robotics and their similarities. Then, based on these similarities...