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Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology [PDF]

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2004
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos,1 for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion of agent and all related mentalistic notions (for instance goals and plans) are used in all phases of software development, from early analysis down to the actual ...
Bresciani, Paolo, Perini, Anna, Giorgini, Paolo, Giunchiglia, Fausto, Mylopoulos, John   +4 more
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Network Management in Ostrogothic Italy: Theoderic the Great and the Refusal of Sectarian Conflict

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2020
The intent of this paper is to study the societal structure of late antiquity, as it is revealed and analysed through the methodologies of Social Network Analysis, and to ascertain whether any active attempts at intervention on the part of the managing ...
Christian Nitschke
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Temporal relationship between vasopressor and sedative administration and cerebrovascular response in traumatic brain injury: a time-series analysis

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2023
Background Although vasopressor and sedative agents are commonly used within the intensive care unit to mediate systemic and cerebral physiology, the full impact such agents have on cerebrovascular reactivity remains unclear.
Logan Froese, Alwyn Gomez, Amanjyot Singh Sainbhi, Nuray Vakitbilir, Izabella Marquez, Fiorella Amenta, Kevin Y. Stein, Frederick A. Zeiler   +7 more
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Collaborative Cost Multi-Agent Decision-Making Algorithm with Factored-Value Monte Carlo Tree Search and Max-Plus

Games, 2023
In this paper, we describe the Factored Value MCTS Hybrid Cost-Max-Plus algorithm, a collection of decision-making algorithms (centralized, decentralized, and hybrid) for a multi-agent system in a collaborative setting that considers action costs.
Nii-Emil Alexander-Reindorf, Paul Cotae
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Cooperation: A Systematic Review of how to Enable Agent to Circumvent the Prisoner’s Dilemma [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2023
It is widely accepted that rational individuals are unable to create cooperation in a prisoner’s dilemma. However, in everyday life, cooperation, for example, during a fishing moratorium, can be observed frequently.
Pan Jiateng, Yoshikawa Atsushi, Yamamura Masayuki   +2 more
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Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS [PDF]

, 1998
This article proposes an agent-oriented methodology called MAS-CommonKADS and develops a case study. This methodology extends the knowledge engineering methodology CommonKADSwith techniquesfrom objectoriented and protocol engineering methodologies.
Garijo Ayestaran, Mercedes, González Cristóbal, José Carlos, Iglesias Fernandez, Carlos Angel, Velasco Pérez, Juan Ramón   +3 more
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A REVIEW ON FRAMEWORKS FOR DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DOMAINS

Revista Eídos, 2011
The review is devoted to related research and presents an overview of current research in areas of complex system analysis and decision making by the means of intelligent tools, including those that are agent-based.
Marina V. Sokolova, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Francisco Gómez   +2 more
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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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Simulation of complex environments:the Fuzzy Cognitive Agent [PDF]

, 2006
The world is becoming increasingly competitive by the action of liberalised national and global markets. In parallel these markets have become increasingly complex making it difficult for participants to optimise their trading actions.
Borrie, David, Isnander, S., Ozveren, Cuneyt Suheyl   +2 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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