This document describes an overview of a multi-agent system formed by a team of gold miners to compete in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2007 (the Gold Miners scenario). The objective is to test and improve Jason , the interpreter for an agent programming language used to implement the MAS. Jason [2, 4] is an agent platform based on an extension of an agent-oriented programming language ca...

Jason is perhaps the most advanced multi-agent programming language based on AgentSpeak . Unfortunately, its current Java-based implementation does not scale up and is seriously limited for simulating systems of hundreds of thousands of agents. We are presenting a scalable simulation platform for running huge numbers of agents in a Jason style simulation framework. Our idea is (1) to identify i...

Recently Hájek prophesied that “as fans of the Friday the 13th series know, you should never be surprised if Jason suddenly reappears in a new guise – and the same is true for Stalnaker’s Thesis” (Hájek, 2011, p. 14). So what better day to pick for a plea for the thesis than today? Obviously, a new guise is also needed for the thesis; it cannot live on in the way as it is understood in the triv...

In plants, whole-genome doubling (polyploidization) is a widely occurring process largely contributing to plant evolution and diversification. The generation and fusion of diploid gametes is now considered the major route of plant polyploidization. The parallel arrangement or fusion of meiosis II MII spindles (ps) is one of the most frequently reported mechanisms generating triploid offspring. ...

Abstract. Previous studies utilizing the Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers aboard Jason satellites have performed measurements of plasmasphere electron content (PEC) by determining total (TEC) above these satellites, which are at altitudes about 1340 km. This study uses similar methods to determine PEC for Jason-2 receiver 24 July 2011. These values compared previous determinations from...

Roller compaction is a dry granulation technique used in the pharmaceutical industry, in which a powder formulation is compressed into a ‘ribbon’ compact between two counter rotating rolls. The ribbon is subsequently milled into granules of a desired size range. Whilst simple in principle, successful control of a roller compaction process is often difficult as it is multivariate in design. Furt...

Design critiquing systems are a type of intelligent user interface used to support human designers in decision making. This paper places design critics in the larger context of intelligent user interface approaches and surveys several critiquing systems. Each approach and system is evaluated with respect to a five-phase design improvement process. This paper concludes with a summary of the stat...

River flows are an essential component of the water cycle and directly accessible for human consumption activities. flux (i.e., river discharge) not only can be measured locally at in situ gauges but also estimated larger scales with routing models. However, number is declining worldwide while ...