A Human-machine Cooperation Protocol for Machine Translation Output Edit Annotation

We report on a study exploring automatic edit annotation in a post-editing corpus with a new method for computing edit types. We examine edit type association with quality scores assigned to the machine translation output and the post-edited texts. Finally, we account for shortcomings in our method and point out edit types worth leveraging.

Finite time simultaneous attack for a maneuvering target with unknown acceleration

This paper investigates the finite time simultaneous attack problem for a maneuvering target with unknown acceleration when the multiple attackers move slower than the target at the initial stage under a communication network having a spanning tree. Attackers can reach agreement before the precise strike when the upper bound on time to consensus is calculated beforehand. The unknown acceleration of the target can be estimated by a disturbance observer, and a cooperation protocol is designed to decrease chattering. Numerical simulations with comparisons demonstrate the effectiveness and the superiority of the proposed method.

Cooperative guidance laws for simultaneous attack against a target with unknown maneuverability

This paper designs new guidance laws for the simultaneous multi-agent interception of a maneuvering target with unknown acceleration. The new approach achieves additional benefits as follows. (1) The completely distributed cooperation protocol ensures that the simultaneous attack task can be completed. (2) The disturbance observer and the adaptive control law can solve the coordinated attack problem with an unknown target acceleration. (3) The design of the guidance law requires only neighbor-derived information rather than global information, which increases the practicability of the new strategy. Numerical simulations with comparisons demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.

A Dynamic and Adaptable Service Composition Architecture in the Cloud Based on a Multi-Agent System

Nowadays, service composition is one of the major problems in the Cloud due to the exceptional growth in the number of services deployed by providers. Recently, atomic services have been found to be unable to deal with all client requirements. Traditional service composition gives the clients a composite service without non-functional parameters. To respond to both functional and non-functional parameters, we need a service composition. Since web services cannot communicate with each other or participate dynamically to handle changes service parameters in service composition, this issue has led us to use a dynamic entity represented by an agent based on dynamic architecture. This work proposes an agent-based architecture with a new cooperation protocol that can offer an automatic and adaptable service composition by providing a composite service with the maximum quality of service. The implementation of this model has been provided in order to evaluate the authors' system. The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of their proposed system.