We consider a team of agents with limited problem-solving ability facing a disjunctive task over a large solution space. We provide sufficient conditions for the following four statements. First, two heads are better than one: a team of two agents will solve the problem even if neither agent alone would be able to. Second, teaming up does not guarantee success: if the agents are not sufficientl...

The Ulm Sparrows team is an student-oriented, interdisciplinary research effort at the University of Ulm. The team is active in both the simulation and the middle-size league, but simulation efforts are targeted towards supporting the middle-size league robot team. We competed in the RoboCup World Championships in Paris (1998) [5] and Stockholm (1999, quarterfinals) [7], the European RoboCup Ch...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the composition of a surgical team is the premise for studying efficiency inside the operating room. METHODS To investigate the team composition in general surgery procedures, we retrospectively reviewed procedures performed by an expert general surgeon in 2007-08 at 2 tertiary hospitals. For each patient, demographic characteristics, procedure type, team members and p...

This paper describes a determination method of a number of a team for multiple mobile robot object conveyance. The number of robot on multiple mobile robot systems is the factor of complexity on robots formation and motion control. In our previous research, we verified the use of the complex-valued neural network for controlling multiple mobile robots in object conveyance problem. Though it is ...

This paper describes the CMUnited-99 small-size robot team. The team builds on our previous RoboCup champion teams (’97 and ’98). The team reuses much of the hardware, perception, and strategy software from CMUnited-98. This description summarizes some of the features from past teams that are used in CMUnited-99. It focuses on our robust motion control algorithm and the team’s individual and te...

BACKGROUND For trauma patients, delays to assessment, resuscitation, and definitive care affect outcomes. We studied the effects of resuscitation area occupancy and trauma team size on trauma team resuscitation speed in an observational study at a tertiary academic institution in Singapore. METHODS From January 2014 to January 2015, resuscitation videos of trauma team activated patients with ...

In this paper, we study a new multicast paradigm for large scale mobile ad hoc networks, namely team multicast. In team multicast the multicast group does not consist of individuals, rather, of member teams. For example a team may be a special task force that is part of a search and rescue operation. The message must be broadcast to each member of each team in the multicast group. Team multicas...

The importance of virtual team (VT) identification for the success of theteam is widely recognized in literature. However, the antecedents of identifi-cation in virtual teams have remained understudied thus far. This study aimsat filling this gap by examining how identification with VTs is related to struc-tural factors such as the degree of virtuality, team size, cultural d...

Through the examination of 11 intact interuniversity research project teams, this study examines the relationship between team leaders, team members, their communication networks (represented as structural holes), and performance. The study shows that in the conduct of their work, the team leaders bridged more structural holes than team members. Although team leaders demonstrated a higher level...

the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between role clearness and occupational commitment of branch team managers in tehran agricultural bank. research questions were provided and developed considering role theory, existent resources toward role, present job description. the opinions of branch team managers in tehran agricultural bank according to demographic variabl...