objectives this study is the first of its kind to determine the framework, advantages, and limitations of bot contracts for health care projects in selected countries. background advantages and limitations of build-operate-transfer (bot) contracts in various forms of public-private partnership (ppp) arrangements have not been studied. conclusions this study suggests that more information transp...

This paper proposes an Evolutionary Algorithm for finetuning the behavior of a bot designed for playing Planet Wars, a game that has been selected for the the Google Artificial Intelligence Challenge 2010. The behavior engine of the proposed bot is based on a set of rules established by means of heuristic experimentation, followed by the application of an evolutionary algorithm to set the const...

With regard to literature, improved estimations for the number of possible moves and placements are provided, showing that the complexity of Diplomacy is enormous, making it a good candidate for machine learning and evolutionary learning techniques. To enhance the playing strength of an existing Diplomacy bot and alleviate the distance to the presumed best current bot, a look-ahead planning com...

We present a computational model for the generation of a Twitter bot that aspires to be considered creative by generating riddles about celebrities and well-known characters. The riddles are created by combining information from both wellstructured and poorly-structured information sources. This model has been implemented as an interactive Twitter bot (@TheRiddlerBot) that presents its outputs ...

The subject of this thesis is a new game called Hearthstone. It is a strategy card game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, in which players duel with each other with cards they collected. The game of Hearthstone provides a challenge for developing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent. The agent has to be able to deal with unknown information and stochastic events in a large search space. In ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to compare changes in HbA1c and body weight after initiation of dapagliflozin or basal insulin supported oral therapy (BOT) in type 2 diabetes patients in primary care practices. METHODS Patients from 983 primary care practices who started dapagliflozin or BOT between December 2012 and July 2015 (index date, ID) were retrospectively analyzed (Disease Analyzer; Germany)....

This study reports the results of a laboratory experiment exploring interactions between humans and a conversational agent. Using the ChatScript language, we created a chat bot that asked participants to describe a series of images. The two objectives of this study were (1) to analyze the impact of dynamic responses on participants’ perceptions of the conversational agent, and (2) to explore be...

In this paper, to build an efficient intelligent surveillance system, the CNN algorithm, one of the deep learning algorithms, was used for an image analysis bot (bot, the abbreviation of robot, is a software tool for processing data) system to detect and classify pedestrians in a video sequence. To optimize the system, we made some improvements to the CNN algorithm. Additionally, we implement t...