Experience from recent crises strongly suggests that involvement of ordinary individuals or groups of people in emergency response is a critical contribution to large-scale disaster relief, especially at the beginning of the crisis. While not meant to displace response from trained authorities, they should not be regarded as a liability but as immediately available assets. Instead, the issue is...

We consider a hierarchical multicellular sensing and communication network, embedded in an ageless aerospace vehicle that is expected to detect and react to multiple impacts and damage over a wide range of impact energies. In particular, we investigate self-organization of impact boundaries enclosing critically damaged areas, and impact networks connecting remote cells that have detected noncri...

the main purpose of this research is to describe emergent approach of grounded theory methodology and then compare it with systematic approach. to do so, after describing emergent approach, it compare it with systematic one surrounding 5 axis: coding processes; sampling processes; paradigms; literature review and rigor considerations. the findings show that emergent approach in comparison with ...

This paper describes a computational model of multiagent multimodal categorization that realizes emergent communication. We clarify whether the can reproduce following functions in symbol emergence system, comprising two agents with different sensory modalities playing naming game. (1) Function for forming shared lexical system comprises perceptual categories and corresponding signs, formed by ...

In this paper we describe a low-end and easy to implement flocking algorithm which was developed for very simple swarm robots and which works without communication, memory or global information. By adapting traditional flocking algorithms and eliminating the need for communication, we created an algorithm with emergent flocking properties. We analyse its potential of aggregating an initially sc...

Multi-player role-playing games form one of the key examples of interactive, emergent and collaborative storytelling systems available. These games and the collaborative stories that they create, are commonly facilitated by a specialized participant, the game master. In the current study, the verbal communication of game masters in a series of role-playing game sessions is categorized and analy...

Background It is experienced in emergency department waiting time to a course of treatment becomes longer due to lack of communication and patient planning. By optimizing the communication between doctors and nurses the waiting time for patients can maybe be reduced. The emergency department triage patients in category 1 to 5. Category 1 is most emergent. We selected two patient groups, categor...

During orientation to the cardiac surgery operating room, new staff may not be exposed to emergent situations. Allowing team members the opportunity to practice their roles during less common, high-stakes emergency cardiac surgical scenarios may better prepare them when crises do arise in the OR. The Emergency Cardiopulmonary Bypass Course was developed to meet the needs of new staff starting i...

An agent-based emergent intelligence methodology is utilized to assemble agents into teams and assign distributed tasks to them in a dynamic environment. The application concerns the management of military missions that utilize intelligent munitions that are capable of searching, detecting, identifying, and attacking targets in a battlefield. The simulator follows a reactive, behavior-based des...

This paper presents an analysis of a multi-agent system intended to model total task completion rates in collaborating communities. The spillover effect is emergent. We begin to quantify externality of marginal utilities. We are concerned with maximizing the output of the given community through regulation of agent to task ratios. We outline emergent externalities when collaboration occurs, eve...