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An empirically informed agent-based model of a Nepalese smallholder village

MethodsX, 2021
Agent-based modelling methodologies offer a number of advantages when it comes to socio-ecological systems research. In particular, they enable experiments to be conducted that are not practical or feasible to conduct in real world settings; they can ...
Nicholas Roxburgh, Andrew Evans, Raj K. GC, Nick Malleson, Alison Heppenstall, Lindsay Stringer   +5 more
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Leveraging system sciences methods in clinical trial evaluation: An example concerning African American women diagnosed with breast cancer via the Patient Navigation in Medically Underserved Areas study

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2019
Background: Systems science methodologies offer a promising assessment approach for clinical trials by: 1) providing an in-silico laboratory to conduct investigations where purely empirical research may be infeasible or unethical; and, 2) offering a more
Yamilé Molina, Aditya Khanna, Karriem S. Watson, Dana Villines, Nyahne Bergeron, Shaila Strayhorn, Desmona Strahan, Abigail Skwara, Michael Cronin, Prashanthinie Mohan, Surrey Walton, Tianxiu Wang, John A. Schneider, Elizabeth A. Calhoun   +13 more
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Towards Open and Expandable Cognitive AI Architectures for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Human-Robot Collaborative Learning

IEEE Access, 2021
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) constitutes one of the most robust methodologies for constructing efficient cognitive robotic systems. Despite the large body of research works already reported, current key technological challenges include those of ...
Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Margherita Antona, Constantine Stephanidis   +2 more
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Mining Dynamics: Using Data Mining Techniques to Analyze Multi-agent Learning

Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2017
Analyzing the learning dynamics in multi-agent systems (MASs) has received growing attention in recent years. Theoretical analysis of the dynamics was only possible in simple domains and simple algorithms.
Sherief Abdallah
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A systematic review of the evaluation of agricultural policies: Using prisma

Heliyon, 2023
Background: The food security of each country depends on agricultural development, which is sensitive to the implementation of agricultural public policies.
Lina M. Bastidas-Orrego, Natalia Jaramillo, Julián A. Castillo-Grisales, Yony F. Ceballos   +3 more
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Observer-based event-triggered networked multi-drives speed consensus

Digital Communications and Networks, 2022
The problem of having an identical speed when dealing with multiple motors always exists in the industry. There are several methods to address the problem, but all the methodologies have two common drawbacks.
Suhaib Masroor, Chen Peng
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Policy Modeling and Applications: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives

Complexity, 2019
The range of application of methodologies of complexity science, interdisciplinary by nature, has spread even more broadly across disciplines after the dawn of this century.
Bernardo A. Furtado, Miguel A. Fuentes, Claudio J. Tessone   +2 more
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Actor–Critic Reinforcement Learning and Application in Developing Computer-Vision-Based Interface Tracking

Engineering, 2021
This paper synchronizes control theory with computer vision by formalizing object tracking as a sequential decision-making process. A reinforcement learning (RL) agent successfully tracks an interface between two liquids, which is often a critical ...
Oguzhan Dogru, Kirubakaran Velswamy, Biao Huang   +2 more
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Walking Towards Peace: Generating Synergies at a Regional Level

Journal of Moral Theology, 2023
Walking Towards Peace is a regional community of practice made up of peace and justice organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean. Its goals are to build capacity for Catholic grassroots organizations with peacebuilding methodologies, to share ...
Isabel Aguilar Umaña, Cecelia Suarez Trueba   +1 more
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Multi-Agent Systems in Control Engineering: A Survey

Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2009
This paper presents a survey on multi-agent system (MAS) capabilities in control engineering applications. It describes essential concepts of multi-agent systems that are related to the control systems and presents an overview on the most important ...
Fatemeh Daneshfar, Hassan Bevrani
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