This work presents a novel method for modeling collaborative learning as multi-issue agent negotiation using fuzzy constraints. Agent negotiation is an iterative process, through which, the proposed method aggregates student marks to reduce personal bias. In the framework, students define individual fuzzy membership functions based on their evaluation concepts and agents facilitate student-stud...

While news media biases and propaganda are a persistent problem for interpreting the true state of world affairs, increasing reliance on the internet as a primary news source has enabled the formation of hyper-partisan echo chambers and an industry where outlets benefit from purveying “fake news”. The presence of intentionally adversarial news sources challenges linguistic modeling of news arti...

It is well known that packaging glass can be considered an excellent example of circular economy due to the characteristics which allow the recycling and reuse without loss of product quality. However, in some countries, the selective collection systems together with campaigns to mobilize the population are not completely efficient and there is still packaging glass in municipal solid waste whi...

With new emerging and re emerging diseases a proper public health care system has been mandatory in developing and developed countries.The outbreak of disease also occurs in the form of Bioterrorism, a word that has become significant in recent years.It implies the need of predictive tools for the risk assessment and formulation of health policies.The multiagent based system has become popular ...

Golf is a global sport with professional golfers playing on many organized tours throughout the world. The largest and most important tours for male professionals include the PGA Tour, European Tour, Japanese Tour and Asian Tour. The Official World Golf Ranking, or OWGR, is a system for ranking male professional golfers on a single scale. We say a ranking system is unbiased if otherwise identic...

This chapter introduces ABMs, their construction, and the pros and cons of their use. Although relatively new, agent-based models (ABMs) have great potential for use in ecotoxicological research – their primary advantage being the realistic simulations that can be constructed and particularly their explicit handling of space and time in simulations. Examples are provided of their use in ecotoxi...

Physiologically based toxicokinetic [(PBTK), or alternatively referred to as physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK)] models are quantitative descriptions of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals in biota. PBTK models are increasingly being used as an effective tool for designing toxicology experiments and for conducting extrapolations essential for risk assessme...

This paper investigates the introduction of location-based services by government as part of an all-hazards approach to modern emergency management solutions. Its main contribution is in exploring the determinants of an individual’s acceptance or rejection of location services. The authors put forward a conceptual model to better predict why an individual would accept or reject such services, e...

Despite ongoing efforts a lack of efficient case evaluation remains a central problem within the relatively young research area of case-based reasoning (CBR). In simple terms case evaluation is the task of identifying the problem-solving potential retrieved cases provide for a given situation. Very frequently this process includes the identification and generation of summaries for all, or some ...