201 research outputs found
Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life,
No full textChristina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life, delves into old letters written by Maine writer Ruth Moore in the 1950s. Moore was selling her family\u27s Gotts Island house to Phyllis and Richard Strauss, Gillis\u27s sister and brother-in-law
A Semantic Grid Service for Experimentation with an Agent-Based Model of Land-Use Change
No full textAgent-based models, perhaps more than other models, feature large numbers of parameters and potentially generate vast quantities of results data. This paper shows through the FEARLUS-G project (an ESRC e-Social Science Initiative Pilot Demonstrator Project) how deploying an agent-based model on the Semantic Grid facilitates international collaboration on investigations using such a model, and contributes to establishing rigorous working practices with agent-based models as part of good science in social simulation. The experimental workflow is described explicitly using an ontology, and a Semantic Grid service with a web interface implements the workflow. Users are able to compare their parameter settings and results, and relate their work with the model to wider scientific debate.Agent-Based Social Simulation, Experiments, Ontologies, Replication, Semantic Grid
Reinforcement Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas
No full textIn this paper we replicate and advance Macy and Flache\'s (2002; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 7229–7236) work on the dynamics of reinforcement learning in 2�2 (2-player 2-strategy) social dilemmas. In particular, we provide further insight into the solution concepts that they describe, illustrate some recent analytical results on the dynamics of their model, and discuss the robustness of such results to occasional mistakes made by players in choosing their actions (i.e. trembling hands). It is shown here that the dynamics of their model are strongly dependent on the speed at which players learn. With high learning rates the system quickly reaches its asymptotic behaviour; on the other hand, when learning rates are low, two distinctively different transient regimes can be clearly observed. It is shown that the inclusion of small quantities of randomness in players\' decisions can change the dynamics of the model dramatically.Reinforcement Learning; Replication; Game Theory; Social Dilemmas; Agent-Based; Slow Learning
Clippings from The progress advance. Vol. 90 no. 40 (1988 March 30)
No full textHeadline: Caseville mourns young accident victim. Local schools hit hardest in state; seek fund change. Obituaries: Harvey Eichler, Anna M. Kincel, Agnes Bernhardt, Nellie Gotts Kreh, Brian Michael Gulash, Gustave Kausch, Eunice L. Gillingham, Theresa N. McComb
The Secret Soul of an Island Shoe
No full textAfter the author finds a woman\u27s shoe that had been hidden in the wall of her Gotts Island house for over 100 years, she tries to unravel the mystery of why it was there. There are many accounts of shoes hidden in the walls of 18th and 19th century houses in England and in the U.S., in Massachusetts, particularly. Scholars have speculated that the shoes may have operated as a sort of protective talisman
Energetics of antechinus swainsonii
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Concept mapping : its use in the school context
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Frontiers ROI mask (N=5 ROIs)
No full textThis .nii dataset containts the regions of interest used in the manuscript Schintu et al. (2022). Effective connectivity underlying neural and behavioral components of prism adaptation.</p
Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science
No full textA collection of papers presented at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, July 1994, including the following papers:
** Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Barry Smith
** The Bounds of Axiomatisation, Graham White
** Rethinking Boundaries, Wojciech Zelaniec
** Sheaf Mereology and Space Cognition, Jean Petitot
** A Mereotopological Definition of 'Point', Carola Eschenbach
** Discreteness, Finiteness, and the Structure of Topological Spaces, Christopher Habel
** Mass Reference and the Geometry of Solids, Almerindo E. Ojeda
** Defining a 'Doughnut' Made Difficult, N .M. Gotts
** A Theory of Spatial Regions with Indeterminate Boundaries, A.G. Cohn and N.M. Gotts
** Mereotopological Construction of Time from Events, Fabio Pianesi and Achille C. Varzi
** Computational Mereology: A Study of Part-of Relations for Multi-media Indexing, Wlodek Zadrozny and Michelle Ki
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