An Agent-Based Meta-level Architecture for Strategic Reasoning in Naval Planning

A Meta-level Architecture for Strategic Reasoning in Naval Planning

Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/11504894_117 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 848-850 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mark Hoogendoorn ◽

Catholijn M. Jonker ◽

Peter-Paul van Maanen ◽

Jan Treur

Keyword(s):

Strategic Reasoning ◽

Meta Level

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Reflexivity and globalization: Conditions and capabilities for a dialogical cosmopolitanism

Human Affairs ◽

10.1515/humaff-2017-0031 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Hans-Herbert Kögler

Keyword(s):

Perspective Taking ◽

Power Relations ◽

Political Integration ◽

Global Approach ◽

Objective Condition ◽

Political Will ◽

Agent Based ◽

The Core ◽

Meta Level

AbstractThis essay develops the core intuition that we need to transform the objective condition of globalization into a reflexive consciousness of a cosmopolitan connectedness. We require a cosmopolitan self-understanding that allows us to respond in a normatively guided way to objective processes that undermine the usual venues of political will formation. Since our global connectedness in terms of economic and political integration is ongoing and seemingly inevitable, we need a similarly inclusive and global approach to critically respond to the challenge of these unconstrained forces. The proposal is to develop a dialogical cosmopolitanism which is not based on a new meta-level of abstract universal norms, but grounded in agentive capabilities. Hermeneutic capabilities which comprise contextual perspective-taking are introduced, developing shared yet fallible norms, and critically reflecting on the power relations involved. These agent-based capabilities would allow the situated agents themselves to understand the objective forces that define current globalization and provide normative resources for a different, cosmopolitan globalization.

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ARMS: An Agent-Based Resource Management System for Grid Computing

Scientific Programming ◽

10.1155/2002/910792 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 135-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 71

Author(s):

Junwei Cao ◽

Stephen A. Jarvis ◽

Subhash Saini ◽

Darren J. Kerbyson ◽

Graham R. Nudd

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Grid Computing ◽

Management System ◽

Grid Resource ◽

Agent Based ◽

Resource Management System ◽

Meta Level ◽

Local Grid ◽

Prediction Techniques

Resource management is an important component of a grid computing infrastructure. The scalability and adaptability of such systems are two key challenges that must be addressed. In this work an agent-based resource management system, ARMS, is implemented for grid computing. ARMS utilises the performance prediction techniques of the PACE toolkit to provide quantitative data regarding the performance of complex applications running on a local grid resource. At the meta-level, a hierarchy of homogeneous agents are used to provide a scalable and adaptable abstraction of the system architecture. Each agent is able to cooperate with other agents and thereby provide service advertisement and discovery for the scheduling of applications that need to utilise grid resources. A case study with corresponding experimental results is included to demonstrate the efficiency of the resource management and scheduling system.

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Agent-based modelling as scientific method: a case study analysing primate social behaviour

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2007.2061 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 362 (1485) ◽

pp. 1685-1699 ◽

Cited By ~ 60

Author(s):

Joanna J Bryson ◽

Yasushi Ando ◽

Hagen Lehmann

Keyword(s):

Biological Sciences ◽

Social Behaviour ◽

Collective Effects ◽

Agent Based ◽

Agent Based Modelling ◽

Meta Level ◽

Modelling Techniques ◽

Micro Level ◽

Scientific Hypotheses

A scientific methodology in general should provide two things: first, a means of explanation and, second, a mechanism for improving that explanation. Agent-based modelling (ABM) is a method that facilitates exploring the collective effects of individual action selection. The explanatory force of the model is the extent to which an observed meta-level phenomenon can be accounted for by the behaviour of its micro-level actors. This article demonstrates that this methodology can be applied to the biological sciences; agent-based models, like any other scientific hypotheses, can be tested, critiqued, generalized or specified. We review the state of the art for ABM as a methodology for biology and then present a case study based on the most widely published agent-based model in the biological sciences: Hemelrijk's DomWorld, a model of primate social behaviour. Our analysis shows some significant discrepancies between this model and the behaviour of the macaques, the genus used for our analysis. We also demonstrate that the model is not fragile: its other results are still valid and can be extended to compensate for these problems. This robustness is a standard advantage of experiment-based artificial intelligence modelling techniques over analytic modelling.

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Total etch dentin bonding systems: scanning electron microscopy of the resin-dentin hybrid layer

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100130092 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 1092-1093

Author(s):

Jorge Perdigao

Keyword(s):

Composite Resin ◽

Mechanical Interlocking ◽

Hybrid Layer ◽

Agent Based ◽

Dentin Bonding ◽

Acid Agent ◽

Bond Strengths ◽

Main Component ◽

Bonding Systems ◽

New Generation

In 1955, Buonocore introduced the etching of enamel with phosphoric acid. Bonding to enamel was created by mechanical interlocking of resin tags with enamel prisms. Enamel is an inert tissue whose main component is hydroxyapatite (98% by weight). Conversely, dentin is a wet living tissue crossed by tubules containing cellular extensions of the dental pulp. Dentin consists of 18% of organic material, primarily collagen. Several generations of dentin bonding systems (DBS) have been studied in the last 20 years. The dentin bond strengths associated with these DBS have been constantly lower than the enamel bond strengths. Recently, a new generation of DBS has been described. They are applied in three steps: an acid agent on enamel and dentin (total etch technique), two mixed primers and a bonding agent based on a methacrylate resin. They are supposed to bond composite resin to wet dentin through dentin organic component, forming a peculiar blended structure that is part tooth and part resin: the hybrid layer.

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