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Second harmonic generation at fatigue cracks by low-frequency Lamb waves: experimental and numerical studies
Get PDFAbstract not availableYi Yang, Ching-Tai Ng, Andrei Kotousov, Hoon Sohn, Hyung Jin Li
Toward a New Principle of Agent Engineering in Multiagent Systems: Computational Equivalence
No full textAgent-based Methodology (ABM) is becoming indispensable for the inter-disciplinary study of social and economic complex adaptive systems. The essence of ABM lies in the notion of autonomous agents whose behavior may evolve endogenously and can generate and mimic the corresponding complex system dynamics that the ABM is studying. Over the past decade, many computational intelligence (CI) methods have been applied to the design of autonomous agents, in particular, their adaptive scheme. This design issue is non-trivial since the chosen adaptive schemes usually have great impact on the generated system dynamics. Robert Lucas, one of the most influential modern economic theorists, has suggested using laboratories with human agents, also known as Experimental Economics, to help solving the design issue. While this is a promising approach, laboratories used in the current experimental economics is not computationally equipped to meet the demands of the task. This paper attempts to materialize Lucas’ suggestion by establishing a laboratory where human subjects are equipped with the computational power that satisfies the computational equivalence conditions
Modeling intelligence of learning agents in an artificial double auction market
No full textIn psychological as well as socioeconomic studies, individual intelligence has been found decisive in many domains. In this paper, we employ genetic programming as the algorithm of our learning agents who compete with other designed strategies extracted from the literature.We then discuss the possibility of using population size as a proxy parameter of individual intelligence of software agents. By modeling individual intelligence in this way, we demonstrate not only a nearly positive relation between individual intelligence and performance, but more interestingly the effect of decreasing marginal contribution of IQ to performance found in psychological literatur
An experimental examination of the heuristics switching model in learning-to-forecast tasks
No full textA Comparison of Trading Agents in Double Auction Markets: Human-Written Strategies versus Software Agents
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Rethinking Import-substituting Industrialization: Development Strategies and Institutions in Taiwan and China
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The political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973
Get PDFThis thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role
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