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sj-pdf-1-sim-10.1177_00375497231184898 – Supplemental material for A framework for modeling human behavior in large-scale agent-based epidemic simulations
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-sim-10.1177_00375497231184898 for A framework for modeling human behavior in large-scale agent-based epidemic simulations by Jan de Mooij, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Davide Dell’Anna, Mehdi Dastani, Brian Logan and Samarth Swarup in SIMULATION</p
Generating a Spatially Explicit Synthetic Population from Aggregated Data
No full textGenerating a Spatially Explicit Synthetic Population from Aggregated Data
Marco Pellegrino, Jan de Mooij, Tabea Sonnenschein, Mehdi Dastani, Dick Ettema, Brian Logan and Judith Verstegen</p
A Formal Model of Emotions: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects
Full text linkWhen constructing a formal model of emotions for intelligent agents, two types of aspects have to be taken into account. First, qualitative aspects pertain to the conditions that elicit emotions. Second, quantitative aspects pertain to the actual experience and intensity of elicited emotions. In this presentation, we show how the qualitative aspects of a well-known psychological model of human emotions can be formalized in an agent specification language and how its quantitative aspects can be integrated into this model. Furthermore, we discuss several unspecified details and implicit assumptions in the psychological model that are explicated by this effort
K-ACE: A Flexible Environment for Knowledge-Aware Multi-Agent Systems
No full textIn this paper we consider complex application scenarios, typically concerning smart Cyber-Physical Systems, where several components and subsystems interact among themselves, with human users and with the physical environment, and employ forms of intelligent reasoning for meeting the system’s requirements and reaching its overall objectives. We propose a new multi-component multi-level architecture called K-ACE, which provides a high degree of flexibility in the system’s definition, though within a formal semantics
Environment Programming in CArtAgO
No full textCArtAgO is a platform and infrastructure providing a general-purpose programming model for building shared computational worlds — referred here as work environments — that agents, possibly belonging to heterogeneous agent platforms, can exploit to work together inside a Multi-Agent System. Being based on the A&A (Agents and Artifacts) conceptual model, CArtAgO work environments are modelled and engineered in terms of set of artifacts programmed by MAS designers, collected in workspaces. From the agent viewpoint, artifacts are first-class entities representing resources and tools that agents can dynamically instantiate, share and use to support their individual and collective activities. After describing the basic motivations behind the approach, the chapter provides an overview of the programming model promoted by CArtAgO for the definition of artifacts (MAS designer's viewpoint) and for the use of artifacts (agent's viewpoint), using Jason as reference platform for MAS programming
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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